what breed are my gray chickens ? .

[Pennys Mama]

She looks just like my Sapphire Blue Plymouth Rocks! They're just pullets right now, but gonna be beautiful hens. My Black Copper Marans are supposed to lay chocolate colored eggs once they start laying.

 

[AviansLove]

I've never encountered a blue rock in my lifetime of working with different species at the place I work at, very beautiful.

 

[travlinman382002]

looks like the word is sapphire gem. Thanks all of the chicks i bought i did get a rooster and am looking forward to hatching more of these birds very calm and easy going.

 

[travlinman382002]

She looks just like my Sapphire Blue Plymouth Rocks! They're just pullets right now, but gonna be beautiful hens. My Black Copper Marans are supposed to lay chocolate colored eggs once they start laying.
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mine have layed a couple eggs and they are a really dark brown

 

[travlinman382002]

If you bought her from a farm store "pullet" bin, she's most likely a Sapphire Gem - a pretty blue sex-link that lays dark brown eggs. They are sold as a good "mid-sized" layer with a super-friendly, docile disposition.
https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/sapphire-gem-chicken/

thanks for the info they have laid a few eggs and they are a dark russet brown

 

[MROO]

looks like the word is sapphire gem. Thanks all of the chicks i bought i did get a rooster and am looking forward to hatching more of these birds very calm and easy going.

Remember that they're sex links - which means that your hatch will likely mean a surprise mix of both breeds. Remember those nasty little Punnet Squares you did in middle/junior high school? The ones you swore you shouldn't have to learn because you'd never need them in "Real Life?" Surprise!

(borrowed from dummies.com!)

 

[CindyinSD]

Remember those nasty little Punnet Squares you did in middle/junior high school? The ones you swore you shouldn't have to learn because you'd never need them in "Real Life?" Surprise!

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(borrowed from dummies.com!)

I loved the Punnet Squares. Alas, nothing is that simple. Real genetics turns my brain right off. I mean RIGHT off. Bottle genetics, I say. You’ll get a sleep elixir 100% effective for huge swaths of the population. For the few it doesn’t send fleeing into somnolence, it induces acute obsession and manic calculating disease. I admire those folks. I will, alas never be one because of irresistible somnolence.

 

[NatJ]

looks like the word is sapphire gem. Thanks all of the chicks i bought i did get a rooster and am looking forward to hatching more of these birds very calm and easy going.

They're hybrids (parents of two different breeds) so they will not produce chicks exactly like themselves. But their chicks will probably have at least some of their good qualities.

 

[MROO]

I loved the Punnet Squares. Alas, nothing is that simple. Real genetics turns my brain right off. I mean RIGHT off. Bottle genetics, I say. You’ll get a sleep elixir 100% effective for huge swaths of the population. For the few it doesn’t send fleeing into somnolence, it induces acute obsession and manic calculating disease. I admire those folks. I will, alas never be one because of irresistible somnolence.

Y'know, there's probably a Punnett Square for that, too ...

 

[GodofPecking]

That is a blue, the whole point of lavender is it having dark grey legs and a light-grey-purple feathering.

When you search it it won't come in the creative black-blue (dark grey-black) coloring

There is one lavender there which is making me hungry !!! yum !!!