What breed?

[Lazy Farmer]

Mother Hen/Hens






Father Rooster



Color of eggs..
Real Easter egg on left, leghorn on right. Stuck in the middle is the cross egg.
I took a photo for color comparison purposes with the other 2 eggs.

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[Lazy Farmer]

Why did you ask if you knew what her breeding was? In fact your first post you say, " Not sure what breed this hen is...". When fact you knew her exact breeding from the beginning.

I thought it would be nice to have a real name instead of selling them as the ugly term.. Barnyard mix. I thought someone would see the yellow legs in the first pick. Red sex links don't have yellow legs. I was hopeful someone else has crossed hens of this nature and would answer something like " it's a yellow leg sex link" or something else. Barnyard mix is a dirty word when you sell birds in classified ads.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Perhaps now in retrospect I should have been more detailed. Sorry.
But I can't just be the first on who has done this. There has to be a name besides barnyard mix.. Red sex link was a barnyard mix at one time. Then it was named comet, red link etc.
I just want to call them what somebody years ago called them.
Anyway. Thank you. I hope you don't feel like I wasted your time. Sorry for any confusion.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Not sure what breed this hen is...

We bred her... She has yellow legs

 

[Gray Farms]

Hybrid or Crossbred sounds better that Barnyard Mix or Mutt if you prefer.

 

[junebuggena]

Perhaps now in retrospect I should have been more detailed. Sorry.
But I can't just be the first on who has done this. There has to be a name besides barnyard mix.. Red sex link was a barnyard mix at one time. Then it was named comet, red link etc.
I just want to call them what somebody years ago called them.
Anyway. Thank you. I hope you don't feel like I wasted your time. Sorry for any confusion.

Red sexlinks are not random, barnyard crosses. They are specific cross breeds, done for the purpose of easy, guaranteed sexing at hatch. Each hatchery has it's own specific breeding lines for producing red sexlinks, and hence all the different names for them. The names are not individual breeds, but 'brand' names concocted by the hatcheries that produced the breeding lines. The term 'red sexlink' refers to any bird that was bred from a red-base color rooster and a silver-base color hen, making the chicks' coloring linked to the sex of the chicks.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Thinking about naming them "Easter Links" if they remain consistent. But as soon as I name them someone might object and call me out on mutts...
Will say one thing. Almost never a day off since her egg production began.
I have some red barred rocks we hatch a bunch of. But the coloring is not consistently identical like the comet copies.
Thanks again everyone for educating me!

 

[junebuggena]

The Easter Egger hens did not produce that red and white bird. Not genetically possible. The red and white bird has dominant white. Neither of the Easter Egger hens have that particular gene.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

The Easter Egger hens did not produce that red and white bird. Not genetically possible. The red and white bird has dominant white. Neither of the Easter Egger hens have that particular gene.

Could one or two not be pure easter?

 

[Poultry parent]

An Easter egger itself isn't a pure breed. It's usually an ameraucana mix