What is the Makeup of This Hen? Thought I Knew, but...

[halo]

From that second picture, she looks part gourd to me....

 

[Judy]

I don't see her age in this thread. I was thinking if there is game in her she would be going broody all the time. She sure reminds me of Shamo pics I have seen. I know next to nothing about breeds, though.

 

[speckledhen]

She just turned a year old. Has never been broody, not yet anyway.



LOL @ part gourd, Kathy.

 

[Chickenrandomness]

i'm certin she is a black shamo. i don't have any, but i do know my games very well

 

[c is 4 cochin]

Newbie here. I’m no expert on chickens and will post a some questions later. I’d like to take a shot though at guessing what this madam is. Any chance of it being a “Old english game”? Or at least having it in its background? Don’t they lay a sort of a small to medium colored egg?

 

[speckledhen]

She was sent to me as an extra in a small shipment of BR eggs I was using to do a fertility test for someone. The BYC member sent me several blue eggs from her BBS Ameraucana flock and told me that if one of the chicks came out looking funny, her DH's BLRW rooster got in with the Ameraucana hens. We did get one chick that looked like a BLRW at hatch, but she is now red all over and lays a brown egg as well-that is my Rita. Tiny was from another blue egg in that batch. I was fine with whatever hatched since they were freebies anyway so I'm not complaining at all. It's just that Tiny doesn't seem to match anything she had on her farm, at least that I know of.

 

[Chickenrandomness]

Speckledhen, that is deffinitly a shamo. she looks just like the black shamo hen from feathersite

 

[Tokajein]

She kind of reminds me of a shamo.
At least in the neck area.

 

[Borncountry419]

The big boned "fighting" breeds like aseels, shamos, etc., are usually heavy birds with big bones. Thus they generally can't fly well. However, as any Sumatra owner knows, sumatras can fly VERY well. I have had Sumatra mutts that look almost identical to your bird. Does it look like there are any small or flat extra spurs on her legs? Many sumatras have multiple spurs, although they don't always pass on, especially with mutts.

 

[speckledhen]

The head does remind me of a Shamo, but not the back end/tail set. That part seems more Sumatra. I would have just thought she was a beardless Ameraucana if it was not for the brown egg she lays. Then I saw her in a different light and she didn't even seem like an Ameraucana at all, then.