What breed is my hen??

[breeze27]

Hi all I brought this hen as a pullet 7 months ago but she was meant to be a Plymouth Rock.... She's stopped growing and has gone broody anyone know what she might be??

 

[donrae]

She looks like a mixed breed bantam pullet. Her coloring is wrong for a purebred barred bird. I can't tell---what type of comb does she have?

 

[breeze27]

bugger! Gotta stop believing people when they sell me chooks lol!
It's a very flat comb I figured it was just cause she's young and hasn't grown yet
She lays tiny little brown eggs

 

[breeze27]

This is her when I first got her

 

[Bullitt]

bugger! Gotta stop believing people when they sell me chooks lol!
It's a very flat comb I figured it was just cause she's young and hasn't grown yet
She lays tiny little brown eggs

People seem to lie a lot when selling chickens. It is mazing how they are almost always selling pullets and not cockerels.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

People seem to lie a lot when selling chickens. It is mazing how they are almost always selling pullets and not cockerels.

I sold a group of cockerels at a livestock auction, and in the pen next to my birds there was another group of cockerels. The owner had put two eggs in the pen in order to trick people into thinking the birds were laying hens. I've seen that several times at livestock auctions.

 

[donrae]

I sold a group of cockerels at a livestock auction, and in the pen next to my birds there was another group of cockerels. The owner had put two eggs in the pen in order to trick people into thinking the birds were laying hens. I've seen that several times at livestock auctions.

I'd never think of that--how rotten!

 

[MisFitzFarm]

Hi there! So sorry that your seller was dishonest, but at least you got a cute pullet out of the deal instead of a cockerel. Best of a bad situation, I guess

. Just thought to put my two cents in on what breed she may be. If she has a rose comb, then she is most likely some laced variety of a Wyandotte. She's a cutie, too ! Have a great day!
~MisFitzFarm

 

[sourland]

Bantam pullet - most likely a cross of some sort. I too have seen the cockerel pens with eggs included at the auction.