What breed is popcorn?

[TheOddOneOut]

She looks like a leghorn cross to me. They lay at five months and are not heavy birds.

Can you be more specific? Crossed with what?

 

[samanthaoverton]

Can you be more specific? Crossed with what?

It could be many things. But it looks like one of the parents is a white leghorn. I have leghorn/Rhode island red crosses. The girls are white with a little bit of grey but not as much as yours..

 

[samanthaoverton]

They use certain breeds of white and red chickens to make sex links but a dominant silver gene has to be involved which my girls dont have. White leghorns are dominant white though and her size and color are similar to my leghorn mix..

 

[samanthaoverton]

She could be a white leghorn, Rhode island cross. Im pretty confident there is a white leghorn involved though

 

[NatJ]

She could be a white leghorn, Rhode island cross. Im pretty confident there is a white leghorn involved though

If she was produced by a hatchery, she is probably not that cross (based on what breeds and crosses are listed for sale on hatchery websites.) If she hatched from an egg from someone's backyard flock, that is a possibility, depending on what type of comb she has.

I'm waiting on comb photos to check, but my personal guess is she might be one of the Easter Egger types that have a pea comb and a lot of Leghorn ancestry (they seem to be sold as Whiting True Blue, Prairie Bluebell Egger, and probably a few other names.) That would not be a direct cross of Leghorn and anything, but would have enough Leghorn ancestors to look quite a bit like one.

 

[samanthaoverton]

I didnt know if they were from a hatchery or someones backyard breeding. I have leghorn/Rhode island crosses myself..my pullets (no red just a little silver) look nothing like there daddy but the roo who is five months is lovely..all white with big splashes of red.

If she was produced by a hatchery, she is probably not that cross (based on what breeds and crosses are listed for sale on hatchery websites.) If she hatched from an egg from someone's backyard flock, that is a possibility, depending on what type of comb she has.

I'm waiting on comb photos to check, but my personal guess is she might be one of the Easter Egger types that have a pea comb and a lot of Leghorn ancestry (they seem to be sold as Whiting True Blue, Prairie Bluebell Egger, and probably a few other names.) That would not be a direct cross of Leghorn and anything, but would have enough Leghorn ancestors to look quite a bit like one.

 

[Chickenlover2009]

She's about 20 weeks and not yet laying. She's white with grey markings and has yellow feet and beak. She has an almost non-existent light orange comb and wattle.View attachment 3205148

Where did you get her? It might help narrow it down bc some hat heroes might not all sell her breed.

 

[Chickenlover2009]

Where did you get her? It might help narrow it down bc some hat heroes might not all sell her breed.

Not hat heroesBad autocorrect sry hatcheries is what I mean

 

[NatJ]

Not hat heroesBad autocorrect sry hatcheries is what I mean

You can probably edit your previous post if you want to correct it there-- there's usually an edit button at the bottom of the post for about 24 hours.

 

[Chickenlover2009]

You can probably edit your previous post if you want to correct it there-- there's usually an edit button at the bottom of the post for about 24 hours.

Ok thanks