Roos or pullets, and also breed?? **PICS INCLUDED***

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

I saw a pic of your hen in another post, but thought it looked like a dark cornish - are you sure it's a GLW? What type of comb does it have?

 

[logansmommy7]

Their mom and one baby (cupcake) look like this:

She looks exactly like a pic of a GLW (the pic of the week 2 weeks back). Maybe she is just a mutt..who knows. The babies are definitely mutts though.

 

[logansmommy7]

Oh, and she has a pea comb (I think) it is very small..

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

She's not a mutt - she's a very pretty dark cornish. I've heard they make good broodys.

GLW:
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Wyand/BRKWyand.html

dark cornish (ignore the banty pics and scroll down to the bottom pic of a standard size hen & rooster labeled "Hatchery quality Dark Cornish":

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...soft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGLF&sa=G&um=1

 

[logansmommy7]

Both look very similar to me-how do you say for sure that she is a Dark Cornish? Sorry-I'm definitely not a chicken expert (can you tell??)...

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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Her very red face looks like DK.
Her body type is too slender for a GLW.
GLW's have rose combs, dark cornish have pea combs.

Another thing is the color of her neck - your hen has a dark neck like my barnie & the dark cornish hens. GLWs have gold lacing on their necks.

Her lacing is more like a barnevelder or dark cornish rather than a GLW, but she's not a barnevelder - barnevelders have tall, straight combs. The following chicken is my barnevelder just to illustrate the lacing. See how the brown is kind of V shaped (like yours has).

Take a close look at the lacing on the feathers of the GLW on the feathersite page. Also at the very top of the page, you'll see a good illustration of a rose comb.
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Wyand/BRKWyand.html

Hope this helps - I've heard dark cornish hens make great mothers and are overall a great chicken to have.

 

[logansmommy7]

Thanks for the info, I think you are probably right about it, the more I have looked at her. She is a good mother to the chicks she has now, isn't the friendliest, and is also very bossy. I think she might be starting to lay again. Her chicks are about 8 weeks old.