Motley Crew

[aprilmaybe]

Don’t laugh, but when we bought our baby chicks we thought we were getting 2 breeds, maybe 3 at the most. Now it seems of our merry band of 13 that we have at least 5 types. Can someone help me identify?

 

[21hens-incharge]

You have gorgeous birds!
The rooster and the bearded hens are Easter eggers. Absolutely lovely!

The white earlobed hens are brown leghorns.

The black ones are most likely Black Australorp.


You will have a wonderful looking basket of eggs when everyone laying.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Easter Eggers come in many many colors and levels of beards. Some are totally beardless.

 

[MillersFarm]

The one's with the beard/muffs are Easter eggers, The one's with the white earlobes are brown leghorns, And the all brown ones are looking like new rhode islands and new hampshires. (the one brown one with black looks the the hampshire and the completely brown one is a Rhode island) And the black one is either a jersey giant or Australorp. Check under it's feet.. Yellow = Jersey giant pink/white = austra

 

[21hens-incharge]

Oooohhhhh I missed your non bearded red hen. She looks like maybe a production red or even a new Hampshire red.
Not familiar enough with red birds to say for sure.

 

[Laodicia]

The 6th picture, with the yellowish neck feathers, what do you think those are?

Easter egger

 

[MillersFarm]

No those two are not particularly bearded and they don’t have puffy cheeks.

The two with wattles and not beards look like a rhode island and a new hampshire.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Oh and the eggs will get bigger as the gals get their systems up and running fully.

I just cannot get over those crazy beards. so cute and funny.

 

[MillersFarm]

All of the bearded chickens with dark legs are easter eggers that will eventually lay blue/green eggs, The one(?) Chicken that has white earlobes and lays white eggs is a brown leghorn, your rooster is an Easter egger, The brown one with some black around it's neck and tail and yellow legs is a new hampshire, The second brown one without black on it is most likely a rhode island red, and your black one is either a Australorp or a jersey Giant, To tell the difference between the two you would look at the skin under their feet, Yellow skin would mean you have a jersey giant, and pink/white skin would mean you have an australorp. Hope this clears things up?

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

1. Easter Eggers
Your rooster, and all the hens that have the poofs under their chins and eyes.
2. New Hampshire Red
Your red hens that have clean faces
3. Black Austrolorp or Black Jersey Giant
Your black birds with clean faces.
4. Brown Leghorn
Your brown birds with orange striping on the neck. Also they have white earlobes, and big floppy combs.