Meet my new mystery chickens

[Wishapup]

The one with no tail could be molting or had her tail feathers pulled out. Alternatively--she could be an Araucana or Araucana mix - thus the coloured egg explanation! You'll know for sure if she lays a blue egg. Most Araucanas have cheek tufts, but she doesn't. Araucanas are quite rare; usually backyard blue egg layers are Ameraucanas or Ameraucana mixes (Easter Eggers).

Do you have better pictures of the other two (reddish hen, white/black hen)? They also look young, so their colours and body type might change as they mature.

The reddish brown hen looks like an Easter Egger, but she has no muff. Do any of them have feathered legs?

Intriguing hens!

 

[BantamLover21]

The blue one looks like an Easter Egger to me. If the two others lay blue/green/pink eggs, then they are Easter Eggers, too. Otherwise, the red bird could be a Production Red and the white one could be a Delaware mix.

 

[Wyandottes7]

The blue one looks like an Easter Egger to me. If the two others lay blue/green/pink eggs, then they are Easter Eggers, too. Otherwise, the red bird could be a Production Red and the white one could be a Delaware mix.

I agree.

 

[Wishapup]

If you zoom in on the picture, the bird that looks like a Production Red has a partridge-like patterning on her feathers (similar to an EE).

 

[WyandotteIndeed]

The white one is a delaware (little bit of black in tail and hackles, looks like a hen). The brown one looks to be a mix with that little bit of white in the earlobes and variagated feathers. But the little blue one is rumpless and provided she stays that way, is either a true araucana (quite rare) or a manx rumpy. Araucanas usually have tufts (not muffs) which are long feathers that curl out around the back of the neck from behind the earlobes, not the fluffy cheeked muffs that you usually see on Ameraucanas. But my guess is manx rumpy as there are actually a few hatcheries that sell them and I have seen more that a few at shows and swaps, and she has a clean face. Wait and see what color eggs she lays for a better guess.

 

[traceyj]

Thanks all for the info. So far not an egg between them (my two layers have stopped because of moult) so of 9 chickens nobody is laying anything! But I'll update when I see some production!