What are these two hens??

[Chief]

Game no doubt. The 1st one looks a little Hatchy but not sure. The 2nd looks like someones attempt at a Blue. Maybe a whitehackle cross?

Where did you get them? Couldn't they tell you?

 

[chickenlover54]

http://cgi.ebay.com/6-White-Speckle...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a9f7395d4 this is what misled me

 

[Chief]

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I see what you were thinking.

 

[gaz131]

As I said the first is a welsummers ?does it lay a brown egg? take a look for your self http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...s=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&gbv=2&tbs=isch:1 tell me what you think

the second I said (looks like a Silver Spangled Hamburgs) and I still think it does not a very good one but could be a cross have a look for your self http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Hamb/BRKHamburg.html

 

[DTchickens]

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I see what you mean on the Welsummer, but the second hen isn't a Hamburg. Hamburgs have a rose comb, she's almost solid white and in Hamburgs i have ever only seen hens get darker (though i guess more white is possible). Another thing would be lack of white earlobes, and slate legs. If she were a cross, she would be at least a second generation cross as rose comb is dominant over single comb. So you would have to breed the half single/half rose comb chick back to a single combed breed (but looks like she's pea the more i look actually? If so then a rose comb/Pea comb should come out walnut from what i've heard, though again second generation cross would fix that).

She has yellow legs with, what looks to be a green tint. Yellow legs are about the most recessive leg coloration i have seen, the green tint would indicate the dark fowl (which is why she is mottled instead of spangled) in her ancestry. And besides all of the genetic stuff, she just has the game "look" which i know being around them all my life, if she has Hamburg i would say she is a HamburgXGame.

-Daniel.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

They're both game hens.

I have welsummers and the first hen looks nothing like them save for coloring, which is really a common plumage pattern in chickens of the black breasted red variety.

 

[Chris09]

There Game..
Hamburgs have a rose comb and the bird in the picture looks to have a pea comb...

Chris

 

[Chris09]

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Like Cuban said that feather pattern on the first one is common, you can get that pattern on a Leghorn...

Chris

 

[gaz131]

They're both game hens.
I have welsummers and the first hen looks nothing like them save for coloring, which is really a common plumage pattern in chickens of the black breasted red variety.

Like Cuban said that feather pattern on the first one is common, you can get that pattern on a Leghorn...


maybe your welsummers are not welsummers

if they dont look like the welsumers that i put on the link.? and as for the leghorn do they not have a large folding comb on a pullet ,and the bird in ? does not at all, just trying to help, friends of mine have welsummers and the look like that, plus it does look like the welsummers in the link photo, after all if they are fit and healthy birds does it really matter what breed they are I wish you all the best with your birds and hope they bring you plenty of fresh egg and years of fun all the best Gary