what breed?

[M To The Maxx]

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But they should at least have a pea comb or beard/muffs. Your pretty hen has a perfect single comb, white earlobes, and a clean face, much like a Leghorn cross would.

Illia, I agree that this hen is not an EE but if an EE is crossed with a single combed bird the outcome can be a single comb. It rarely happens. Usually when it does that means that the EE or Ameraucana hen has a bad pea comb gene. Here is an exmple of my Barred EE hen Oreo. Her mother is a Black Ameraucana.

 

[FuzzyButtsFarm]

I posted her picture when she was a chipmunk chick and was told she was an EE. I got her from TSC. So I guess you all were wrong.

 

[punky rooster]

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you don't always know when it comes to hatcheries

 

[Illia]

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Sure. Olive Eggers often come out single combed. But there are tall tale signs of it, too. Your hen for example has a rough surface, and hardly any points at all. I even have an EE with a single comb, but hers flops in 2 directions and has several side springs. Usually a single combed "fluke" has side springs, dull points, no points, a rough surface, several folds in the comb, or a very small comb. A normally single combed cross has a perfectly upright, even, parallel, 5-7 pointed comb like the previous hen's.

Also your hen has yellow legs only because the melanization from barring. Any other crossing would create slate, black, or green legs.


But again I seem to be the participant in dragging a topic off topic. Apologies.

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That means little, honestly. Chipmunk coloring only indicates a BBR, duckwing, or partridge coloration. Also, feedstores mix up breeds all the time.

 

[M To The Maxx]

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Sure. Olive Eggers often come out single combed. But there are tall tale signs of it, too. Your hen for example has a rough surface, and hardly any points at all. I even have an EE with a single comb, but hers flops in 2 directions and has several side springs. Usually a single combed "fluke" has side springs, dull points, no points, a rough surface, several folds in the comb, or a very small comb. A normally single combed cross has a perfectly upright, even, parallel, 5-7 pointed comb like the previous hen's.

Also your hen has yellow legs only because the melanization from barring. Any other crossing would create slate, black, or green legs.


But again I seem to be the participant in dragging a topic off topic. Apologies.
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That means little, honestly. Chipmunk coloring only indicates a BBR, duckwing, or partridge coloration. Also, feedstores mix up breeds all the time.

I have been to so I apologize to the OP.

 

[FuzzyButtsFarm]

Here is a pic at 8 wks old.

Sorry I didn't mean to hi-jack this thread

 

[M To The Maxx]

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Can we see a better pic of her now?

 

[FuzzyButtsFarm]

See post on page 1

 

[M To The Maxx]

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That is why I said "better".