Laying Hen ID?

[debid]

@Shanny123 Black sexlinks are usually from a Rhode Island red rooster with barred Rock hens. The males all inherit the barring, none of the females do.

And your closeup really confirms that the red hen is your Easter Egger.

 

[Redhead Rae]

@Shanny123 Black sexlinks are usually from a Rhode Island red rooster with barred Rock hens. The males all inherit the barring, none of the females do.

And your closeup really confirms that the red hen is your Easter Egger.

Those are the usual breeds used to make black sex links, but you can make black sexlinks from any solid colored (not dominant white) male over a barred female. I've made BSLs from my black cochin (avatar) over Dominique/Dom cross females and a New Hampshire over the same females. You can also use legbar females to create sexlinked olive egger offspring because they are barred.

 

[Shanny123]

@Shanny123 Black sexlinks are usually from a Rhode Island red rooster with barred Rock hens. The males all inherit the barring, none of the females do.

And your closeup really confirms that the red hen is your Easter Egger.

Thank you!! I appreciate your help in figuring this out! They sure are good hens. We are having so much rain. I keep taking out the wet pine shavings and adding dry. But it's wet in no time. I hope walking on all the wet grass and wet pine shavings, day after day doesn't make them sick. I hope it won't cause bumblefoot. This is our rainy season. It's dry up where they lay eggs and there's a roost up there that's dry. But they don't stay up there. So their feet must be wet a lot cause of the nonstop rain we're having.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Hi all, RealtreeGal here and I’m new to BYC. I am excited to be here! Anyways, we recieved a couple of laying hens from the landlord a few weeks ago and I’m having trouble trying to figure out what breed they are and Google hasn’t really helped much. I’m in FFA and I raise market sheep so I can ID some chickens but not so much others as I don’t raise them for the fair like I do with my sheep. Charlie is the golden hen (young) and Big Mama (1 or 2 years) is the black and brown hen. They both lay an egg per day and they are both a light mint green and cream in color, but neither myself nor the landlord know what chicken lays what color eggs. I feel like they may be mixed blood, Big Mama being an Australorp X and Charlie an Easter Egger (not Amerucana or Aurucana, I know they are separate) , but I’m not 100% sure. Any thoughts?

Here are pictures of my chickie boos



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The buff hen is a cream legbar mix. The other hen is a polish mix, which often have buttercup-like combs or single combs with points sticking out in the back.

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The black hen is a black sex link and the red hen is an Easter egger.