Show me your mutts!

[GrannySue]

This is Puff. She has puffy cheeks and a short tail, lays light beige eggs. I bought her and her "sister" at a Poultry Swap last year as a consolation prize since there were no ducks that day. Stuff, the sister, had hairy legs when I got her but they've smoothed out since.

 

[willkatdawson]

Cute Puff and Stuff. I guess you remember HR puff-n-stuff to..

 

[wclawrence]

Phoenix X Denizli

"longtail easter egger" chick

yard full of longcrower/longtail crosses

Spectrum Ranch what is that first rooster?

 

[ChickenCharmer]

She is a Fawn Silver Duckwing OEGB/ Golden Campine patterned OEGB cross. Her name's Angela.

 

[JD]

Remember my babies from January, just had to show my mutt Rooster. He is huge. The mother is my avatar, the Asiatic White Braham and the father is a RIR. Hanging on to him!

 

[ChickenCharmer]

Wow, your rooster is gorgeous!!!!

 

[momof4boys]

We called him a 'buttercorn'

buttercup x dark cornish

buttercup x buff orpington

they have cute floppy combs

 

[Lunachick]

This is my mutt Dorothy:

She doesn't have feathered feet. Steel grey coloured legs & feet. More bantam sized then standard. I think she's part Mille Fleur d'Uccle........

 

[mrbstephens]

Thank you thank you! They are all so interesting and beautiful! Not one like another. Please keep them coming!

And wondering, do you all find they are hardier and lay any better than the pure breeds? Thanks again!

 

[Lady_Cluck]

This is Bugs, my most unusual "mutt" in parentage and story.

She is an Appenzeller-Spitzhauben x Sumatra.

Seven years ago, her mom, a tiny little bantam Sumatra hen, managed to fly very high in the barn and lay an egg in a pigeon's nest. Mr. and Mrs. Pigeon, thinking it was their egg, hatched it -- imagine my surprise when I see little chicken legs sticking out from under a very confused pigeon who couldn't even sit down on its "baby." So little Bugs the pigeon-chicken was kept in a box in the kitchen and raised by humans (the pigeons were quite happy to be relieved of the task). Bugs has long since reclaimed her chicken heritage and happily rejoined the rest of the flock, although she remains very tame. When she sees me out working in the garden/yard, she comes running over to "help" me with whatever I am doing. In the pictures below, taken earlier this summer, she is "helping" me turn over a new garden. Really, she is just eating all of the worms! (Her eagerness in unearthing bugs and worms is how she got her name.)