what is the correct name for the breed of my hen??

[Momma Henn01]

 

[cstephens1987]

Based on leg color I'm guessing it's an Easter Egger

 

[Momma Henn01]

Based on leg color I'm guessing it's an Easter Egger

omg ty I looked it up it looks like it that pic is the google pic.

 

[chrissynemetz]

I agree, I believe you have an Easter Egger pullet

 

[BantyChooks]

Am I going barmy, or does that bird appear to have a straight comb? Her phenotype in general isn't really screaming "Easter Egger" to me, particularly the tail and hackle. In addition, the smooth brown gradient I see on her front is rarely an EE trait. They tend to have more diverse colours like the Google-sourced image posted above.

 

[FowlWitch]

Am I going barmy, or does that bird appear to have a straight comb? Her phenotype in general isn't really screaming "Easter Egger" to me, particularly the tail and hackle. In addition, the smooth brown gradient I see on her front is rarely an EE trait. They tend to have more diverse colours like the Google-sourced image posted above.

I consider any mixed breed bird that lays colored eggs (pink, light green, or blue) to be an Easter egger at this point. The hatcheries have somewhat of a fixed lineage of crossing Ameraucanas to Arucanas, but if OP's chicken came from a backyard breeder, the lineage could be different.

OP, where did you get the bird? Is she laying eggs yet?

 

[ShannonR]

Am I going barmy, or does that bird appear to have a straight comb? Her phenotype in general isn't really screaming "Easter Egger" to me, particularly the tail and hackle. In addition, the smooth brown gradient I see on her front is rarely an EE trait. They tend to have more diverse colours like the Google-sourced image posted above.

Maybe. Where's the muff though?

Is this a hatchery bird? What color eggs does she lay? I almost want to say she has some gamefowl in her.

That's a big beak, lol

 

[BantyChooks]

I consider any mixed breed bird that lays colored eggs (pink, light green, or blue) to be an Easter egger at this point. The hatcheries have somewhat of a fixed lineage of crossing Ameraucanas to Arucanas, but if OP's chicken came from a backyard breeder, the lineage could be different.

OP, where did you get the bird? Is she laying eggs yet?

I don't, even though that is indeed a way some people use the term and a way I've used it in the past. I dislike the ambiguity it introduces. Hatchery Easter Eggers, to the best of my understanding, are the descendants of the base stock for the Ameraucana breed, not the other way around. They have South American origins and show a pretty clear grouping of phenotypes, enough to make them visually identifiable nearly all of the time, I'd say.
Also, that bird looks much too young to be laying, so I doubt the OP will have input on that front.

Here is a neat link. Note that their general gene pool was fixed long before the coloured egg trait was bred in. I don't know why people started calling any mixed coloured-egg layer an EE.
The True Origin of EEs

 

[cstephens1987]

I don't, even though that is indeed a way some people use the term and a way I've used it in the past. I dislike the ambiguity it introduces. Hatchery Easter Eggers, to the best of my understanding, are the descendants of the base stock for the Ameraucana breed, not the other way around. They have South American origins and show a pretty clear grouping of phenotypes, enough to make them visually identifiable nearly all of the time, I'd say.
Also, that bird looks much too young to be laying, so I doubt the OP will have input on that front.

Here is a neat link. Note that their general gene pool was fixed long before the coloured egg trait was bred in. I don't know why people started calling any mixed coloured-egg layer an EE.
The True Origin of EEs

Definitely going to lose some time today reading that article lol. Just to clarify though I did not say it looks like a possible EE because I think it's a mutt that lays colored eggs. I don't have any clue what color eggs it lays or if it's even old enough to lay (which it doesn't appear to be). I said it because the overall mutt appearance mixed with green tinted slate legs gives me the impression that this bird is a backyard EE or one that has recessively popped a single comb from either legbar heritage or heterozygous for pea comb parents. Also there are plenty of single combed and clean faced Easter Eggers. I too dislike the misapplied overuse of the term but in this case that's what I'm thinking it might be. The coloration also reminds me a bit of wellies but not quite and between various slight color tweeks and the leg color that's what I came up with. I'm not saying it is one, just that it looks like it could be.

 

[BantyChooks]

Definitely going to lose some time today reading that article lol. Just to clarify though I did not say it looks like a possible EE because I think it's a mutt that lays colored eggs. I don't have any clue what color eggs it lays or if it's even old enough to lay (which it doesn't appear to be). I said it because the overall mutt appearance mixed with green tinted slate legs gives me the impression that this bird is a backyard EE or one that has recessively popped a single comb from either legbar heritage or heterozygous for pea comb parents. Also there are plenty of single combed and clean faced Easter Eggers. I too dislike the misapplied overuse of the term but in this case that's what I'm thinking it might be. The coloration also reminds me a bit of wellies but not quite and between various slight color tweeks and the leg color that's what I came up with. I'm not saying it is one, just that it looks like it could be.

Yep, I get what you're saying.