very new..trying to identify a hen

[Mountain Peeps]

Welcome to BYC! Please make yourself at home and we are here to help.

Yep, that's a pretty mutt chicken!

 

[new2chick]

 

[new2chick]

So not american because she has white legs?

 

[new2chick]

And thank you all so much for the help.....love the site already!!

 

[new2chick]

Could she be a lavender orphington? She has speckles that they dont have in their markings but its the closest I can find to match her with her comb and feet.

 

[lightchick]

She doesn't have a beard or pea comb like a Ameraucana, but she may have Lavender Orpington in her. I don't think she's purebred though.

 

[Kelsie2290]

Hello and Welcome To BYC! She looks splash colored? Blue Orps are pretty popular, she could have come from one of those breeding programs Blue/Black/Splash.

 

[new2chick]

She came from a hatchery so was told she would be a slw....but im goin to assume orphington mixed w blue splash...closest to what she looks like.... soo that being said she is about 7mnths old and still no eggs?

 

[Kelsie2290]

Orps are often on the slower maturing side, especially the fancier colors. If she came from a hatchery would say there is a good chance that she is a Splash Orpington...(because of the way the genetics of Blue feather color works, most hatcheries actually produce Blue, Black and Splash colored birds in their breeding programs, so the birds can be any of those colors even if you ordered "Blue").

 

[lightchick]

Orps are often on the slower maturing side, especially the fancier colors. If she came from a hatchery would say there is a good chance that she is a Splash Orpington...(because of the way the genetics of Blue feather color works, most hatcheries actually produce Blue, Black and Splash colored birds in their breeding programs, so the birds can be any of those colors even if you ordered "Blue").

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