New user - can anyone help?

[barffy]

Hi all,

Long time 'lurker' first time poster here. A while back we bought some day old chicks as a fox took out our old hens. They were black in colour with grey legs and grey eyes and we were told their breed at the time, but it was a breed we haven't ever heard of and subsequently forgot! Anyway, skip forward a few months and our chicks are grown! I've been trying to figure out what breed they are and the best I can come up with (and at the time thought they could be) barnevelders. they don't have all of the traits so I guess they are some kind of hybrid but the cockerel is beautiful all the same. Here is Norman, we were after hens but you get what you get with chicks and he is beautiful all the same.



Thanks for any help,

Harry.

 

[Gray Farms]

He is a crossbred. Likely some Wyandotte blood in him with that rose comb.

 

[barffy]

Thank you for the response. I've attached an image of him with the Hen from the same batch of chicks. When they were chick they both had black eyes and legs, the other they get the paler their legs get and now their eyes are orange.

These pics are a few weeks old now, the cockerel is now very red and crowing well!

 

[donrae]

Agree he's a mixed breed, and a mixed enough no particular breed jumps out. Wyandotte is the most common rose combed breed, so that's a good guess for some of the mix.

 

[drumstick diva]

agree I've also never seen feet multi colored like his

 

[SunflowerTheBun]

Welcome, fellow lurker! I stalked for about a year lol. Sorry, can't help with your chickens but they look beautiful all the same! Everyone's great here though so bypass me and get some answers!

 

[shortgrass]

Wow, its a calico chicken!

Looks like there's some brown Leghorn in there, rose comb and white earlobes plus the red saddle feathers... Love his feet; he's very colorful!

 

[barffy]

This boy just gets more beautiful by the day

Silly question, but now he is mature he has taken a liking to one of my bantams. He is a big guy and our sablepoot is tiny. Is it even possible that she would produce fertile eggs given the size difference?

 

[donrae]

Absolutely possible. The chicks usually wind up being a kid size bird.

From the new pic, I would consider a brown Leghorn x gold laced Wyandotte cross, maybe.