What kind of chickens do I have?

sdmorris

Chirping
6 Years
Oct 12, 2013
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Israel
I have three chickens and I would love to know what breed they are. You should be able to click on the photos to get them full size.
I got the white ones from a free-range farm when they "refreshed" their stock - saving them from being cat food. They give lovely large white eggs and are called Tweedledum and Tweedledee, because they follow each other (and me) around and I cannot tell them apart.
The brown one, Sadie, is called here an Arab chicken, because they are common in the Arab villages. She lays medium sized brown eggs. She had a lovely black sister but a mongoose got into the coop - a few hours after I bought "parrot" netting to lay under the coop.







 
Leghorns, Brown and White Leghorns. The brown must be a mix breed (Brown Leghorn and something) to lay brown eggs.
 
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2 white leghorns
brown leghorn crossed with something. Coloring is not quite right, wrong leg color and lays wrong color eggs. But has the body type of a leghorn. Weird that is is laying a brown egg since it has white earlobes, Might be part of the mixed heritage taking part
 
I agree on the 2 white leghorns. I can't get Ideal's website to pull up but under their brown egg layers they have a breed that has the white earlobes and lays brown eggs, I wish I could remember what its called. It might be a heritage breed?
 
Could the red one be a New Hampshire Red?
No, it is not a new hampshire red.

here is what a NHR looks like
new_hampshire_red_chickens_a_good_example_of_a_new_hampshire_black_tail_red_hen_.jpg

NHRs have yellow legs, bigger body, different coloring, and different ear lobe color
 

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