New Hampshire Red or Buff Orpington?

[NeeleysAVLChicks]

My apologies, I'm totally new to the chicken world, but man, I love it already! Will love it even more when I get my first egg...

These are my ladies, a little unsure about breed, thoughts?

THANK YOU!

 

[barred-rocks-rock]

New Hampshire

 

[OsideChicks]

I'm new to this as well. But comparing it to my Buff Orpington I would guess New Hamshire as well. Just a guess .

 

[RhodeRunner]

I agree with what is said above. If they were buffs, they should be heavier, and a lighter color.

Maybe this will help you see the difference...
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/NH/BRKNH.html New Hampshire
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/Orps/BRKOrps.html Orpington

Than again...I am puzzled on your gray legged bird. New Hampshires have yellow legs such as your other hen pictured. It could be bad breeding, a cross, or another breed. Does that hen show any other strange characteristics?

Good luck with your pretty birds

 

[NeeleysAVLChicks]

That's interesting that you pointed out the different leg colors, they each have different coloring, one yellow, one grey and one more of a flesh color. Does that suggest they are some sort of cross?

This photo shows the flesh colored legs better, they were all hatched together.

Thank you for your help!!

 

[RhodeRunner]

Well, New Hampshires have yellow legs and skin. As for if they are crossed, it is likely. Actual pure bred birds are rare, and it is even harder to find one of these birds in the brown production layers. People have just been breeding NH and Rhode Islands so much, that they have really drifted away from what the birds are supposed to look like to begin with. So maybe they are NH not breed very well, or just a cross. Considering that they all hatched out together, and look so much alike, I am thinking they came from the same parenting stock.

Your girls will most likely never be show quality, but they should make great backyard birds. I myself love mutt chickens.

 

[Chris09]

Im going to say that there a cross.. The three I see have different color legs and in the first picture 1 has chocolate in the tail 1 has no color in the tail and 1 has black in the tail..

Chris

 

[happi752]

I raise both NHR and BO. Those in your pics are NHR. The one with the black legs, is a cross between a Buff Orpington and a Black Orpington.

 

[chicknjane]

They actualy look just like my red sex links which were supposed to be NHR/Delaware crosses.

The front one looks like it has the "fluffiness" that a BO generally has. With my sex links, you can make out the shape of the thigh where with the BO's, they're just too fluffy to make out the shape of the thigh. (I hope that made sense). The front one's color is too dark to be a Buff and the legs, wouldn't be black on a BO. Its an interesting mix I'd say.

Wish I could post pics to show the difference, but with the great computer crash last month, I haven't gotten around to taking pictures, or recovering old pics.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Wow! What has to be the roo to get the ginger offspring? The one with the dark legs does have a bit or an Orpy shape.