What breed is this chicken?

[Gray Farms]

She is a little small for 8 months but its hard telling if you were told right too.

 

[bigz1983]

Here she is in this photo next to one of my 17 chickens. Smallest one.
I put

one of my 8 buff orpington pullets in with her.
They are about the same age and this buff orpington pullet is smallest of my 8 buff orpington pullets.
But this little silver laced wyandotte is about 1/2 the size as my smallest runt sized buff orpington pullet? Weird...

 

[bigz1983]

She is a little small for 8 months but its hard telling if you were told right too.

My coworker told me she was hatched in the spring in her 9 year old grandsons class room as a class project. She told me it started laying eggs this summer. It hasn't laid a egg for me yet and I have her for over a week.

 

[Gray Farms]

It can take up to 3 months for new birds to adjust to new surrounds and start laying again.

 

[bigz1983]

It can take up to 3 months for new birds to adjust to new surrounds and start laying again.

I have heard that before but any new chickens that I have introduced to my flock that were good layers never had a delay. The ones that had a delay when introduced to my flock well let's just say it wasn't a delay. They never laid eggs at all.

 

[Gray Farms]

Your luck then. I've seen hens take as much as 6 months to start laying on a regular basis.

 

[bigz1983]

Your luck then. I've seen hens take as much as 6 months to start laying on a regular basis.

They were old hens though.
This hen is young so I know she eventually will.
I'm trying to integrate her into the main flock right now.
It's not going so well.
She gets bullied.
It's going to take time.

 

[bigz1983]

Well the silver laced wyandotte or what we named her "Special chicken" is doing good.
The other chickens tolerate her presence but she still a bit of a outcast.
I don't think she is laying eggs maybe in the spring?
She is still less than 1/2 the size of a buff orpington hen.
Not sure if that's from living in a ferret cage in a garage/lack of proper care/feed or her genetics.

 

[Crazychickenmama8]

I have two golden laced Wyandotte’s one is normal size and the other is really small. She’s catching up but still the smallest of all my chickens. I thought she was some sort of bantam but the hatchery I got her from doesn’t have GLW bantams.

 

[bigz1983]

She really likes to free range with other chickens.
Being stuck in a ferret cage her whole life was probably no fun.