One of my hens came home with chicks... and we don't have a rooster!!! What breed is one of the chic

[icyangel222]

Or excuse me, the mom is easter egger, which I guess makes it more complicated to figure out what they are.

 

[icyangel222]

Oh gosh, I spaced out.

I just flipped through some older pics and just realized the mom's sister has the same barring. "Doh!" Now all that's left to figure out is where the female chick gets the dark brown base color from? Cause it's obviously the dad's base coloring.

The chicks mom is on the left with blue feet and her sister on the right with all the barring and green feet. This is when they were about the same age as the chicks are now. I'm certain that the sister wasn't the mom cause the blue footed one is who kept running off and returned home with babies. They're definitely easter eggers cause ameraucanas don't have barring like that.

 

[little farmer]

wow, they are beautiful birds. Not sure what they could be, but they do have very pretty barring. Do you know anything about the rooster?

 

[Hollow Point]

Hen might have got knocked up from the rooster 1/2mile down the road then came back and made a nest around her home territory to lay and hatch the eggs out. Where is the hen now?

 

[icyangel222]

I still have no idea who's rooster knocked up my hen, nor do I know what breed he would be. I don't even know who around me has chickens cause if they have any, they're where I can't see them. The hen is out in our coop with the other birds. As it turns out the hen is not full ameraucana like I thought, she's easter egger so even just figuring her out would be difficult.

Looks like I'm still at a dead end unless I just happen to see one of my neighbors with chickens.

 

[gryeyes]

Somebody already mentioned she could have stolen eggs from another hen, wherever she brooded them.

My very first GrandChick was hatched by a Buff Orpington but it wasn't her egg; her egg mother was an EE and so was her daddy.

I have other broody hens who add stolen eggs to their clutches, so maybe your absent mama hen didn't even lay the eggs she hatched.

But there's obviously a rooster somewhere around!