Mutts! Lets See Em!

[scgamecock]

This is Honey, a Buff Orpington/ Wyandotte cross that I hatched from one of the monthly egg's swaps.The egg's were from Michigan and I really love her look even though she is a mutt.She is solid buff with a rose comb so she looks like a buff wyandotte.

 

[protodon]

This is one of my buff orp/black star crosses. SHe's really neat looking. I'd like to make more of her but I'm not sure how. I was thinking perhaps she was 3/4 black star 1/4 buff orp because my first generation crosses include 2 50/50 hens and 1 50/50 rooster and they don't look like her. I wish I had a boy like her so I could put them together. But so far all my boys just look like deep red buff orps. I'm wondering if there is some sex linking with the colors there so I would never get a boy like her.

 

[zoomia]

14 weeks old, 1/2 splash marans, 1/2 silver laced wyandotte banty. I think she's gorgeous.

 

[Settler'sDreamFarm]

Very Nice Birds!

 

[pbjmaker]

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Not neccesarily - I have a bird that looks just like that - her mom is a cuckoo maran and the dad is - ? There were serveral to choose from at the time.
We think ours looks like a raven too - she shimmers purple and green.

 

[WisconsinChick]

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ok thats the coolest lookin chicken EVER!!!

 

[SunAngel]

And she lays bluish-green eggs too! Her and Phoena are two of our favorites.

I either got them as eggs or chicks from silkieluver_07 here on BYC, can't remember which now.

 

[Mahonri]

Here is Dolly, my Miss Jayne designer chick. Dellie roo X LB Leghorn

My avitar is her as a chick.

I'm putting her in with the big girls this week because her comb is getting really red.
Her legs are extreme yellow now.

I've got to get a better updated pic.

 

[sunket77]

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Not neccesarily - I have a bird that looks just like that - her mom is a cuckoo maran and the dad is - ? There were serveral to choose from at the time.
We think ours looks like a raven too - she shimmers purple and green.

I think you might be right about the cuckoo maran, because of Oreo being her sibling and having the barred coloring. That or a dominque but he doesn't have a rose comb, but yet yellow legs. Raven has black everything, and Cleo and Duchess have green legs. Strange that they all came from the same hen! There where many roosters on her property though. Would a broody hen hatch another hens eggs? they were free range.

 

[pbjmaker]

A broody hen will hatch any eggs she can get her beak on and roll under her- including ducks and guinea eggs.

My girl is pure black too but now that she is getting close to point of lay her comb is kind of a dark mulberry/light black color.

Unfortunately she is probably one of the two wildest pullets I have.

This is her next to a red sex-link who was part of her brood. They are skittish but not like her - we named ours "Spook".