need help with identifying breeds please

[Fancypants1]

Can someone help me with a breed? I received her from Meyers on 5/7 as part of an assortment. Can you please help identify her? She has greenish legs, single comb, feathers were brown when she was a chick and is now getting white neck feathers. She has very long legs and quite skiddish. She does not chirp like the other chicks I have, more of a eagle/hawk cry and she has a very pointy sharp almost curved beak. I am so stumped.

 

[smarsh]

she does have quite the beak. this doesn't look like anything i have seen. i know they have done some olive egger crosses, this looks like a cross that could include cuckoo maran. maybe you have an olive egger (this is an easter egger crossed usually with a dark brown egger to get a very ugly deep olive colored egg, ugly to me, not to others)

 

[smarsh]

you might email them and ask?

 

[Griffinsong]

Did it have some white spots ringed with black on the back as a chick? Looks a bit like an Egyptian Fayoumi.

 

[Fancypants1]

This was her or him (some are saying it looks like a roo because of the neck feathers but I ordered all females) at 3 days old.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

This was her or him (some are saying it looks like a roo because of the neck feathers but I ordered all females) at 3 days old.

Ordering all pullets is really not a 100% guarantee because of the error rate involved in vent sexing day-old chicks.

Baby picture looks a little light, but possibly Fayoumi? What sort of assortment did you order? Knowing the basic (rare, exotic, brown layer, etc) assortment can help narrow possible breeds that would be included.

 

[Griffinsong]

Yeah, the chick pic also looks like it might be a Fayoumi.
Those mature fast, so if it is making a hawk like cry it might be trying to crow!

 

[Fancypants1]

Ordering all pullets is really not a 100% guarantee because of the error rate involved in vent sexing day-old chicks.

So does that mean I can not eat the eggs from the hens? How do I know if they are fertile?

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

So does that mean I can not eat the eggs from the hens? How do I know if they are fertile?

If you do end up with a confirmed roo you can re-home, eat, etc the roo or keep him. You can safely eat fertile eggs. Collection daily will prevent the beginning of development of a chick and you have a perfectly normal egg.

 

[Griffinsong]

Until a hen incubates the egg, a fertile egg will not grow and is fine to eat. There is very little difference[the germinal disc in the yolk will be slightly different in a fertilized egg, but that is all], because the cells will not start dividing until set.

Both sexes of Fayoumi have those neck markings, though, so unless you are sure it is trying to crow and not just an oddball chick it might well be a pullet.