Name That Breed: pale yellow pullet with black flecks

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Goodness gracious this is getting out of hand. 50 dollars for a mix breed? Getting the original breeds and doing the cross yourself would be half the price

Yeah and you'd get infinite chicks and hatching eggs

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I seriously doubt hoovers has erminettes

Yeah they are a rarer breed, it probably just a mix of some sort.

 

[ChickenLittle2023]

Another person I asked suggested blue azure! I’d never heard of that breed but his chickens look just like mine !

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Another person I asked suggested blue azure! I’d never heard of that breed but his chickens look just like mine !

I'd say at this point it's closes to that I guess?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I see that you’re right - most don’t seem to have yellow legs, but I just found this pic online of a splash orp and this one has yellow shanks! I wonder if they are always white?

That’s not an orpington, the pictures online aren’t always accurate.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Holy mother of bantams, I think I found what breed it is. It might be an erminette chicken
look at this
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Definitely not an erminette. Erminettes are paint, aka heterozygous dominant white, which is the same coloration that many other much more common breeds and hybrids come in.

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

That’s not an orpington, the pictures online aren’t always accurate.

I had a slight thought "that's a really skinny Orpington"

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Definitely not an erminette. Erminettes are paint, aka heterozygous dominant white, which is the same coloration that many other much more common breeds and hybrids come in.

Oh, ok now I like think it's probably a hyprid that got accidentally mixed up with the order.

 

[ChickenLittle2023]

In my local chicken group someone else suggested that she might be a prairie bluebell from Hoover’s. It looks like that’s their version of Blue Azure (which they don’t sell). Both are a mix of leghorn + a blue egg layer (araucana in the case of prairie bluebell)… prairie bluebell can come in lots of different colours and can look like mine, so maybe that’s it. We’ll see if we end up with blue eggs from her!

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

This pullet reminds me more of the Smokey Pearls that Hoover's Hatchery sells.