What kinds of hens are these?

[jeslewmazer]

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Pics help but you can only get what people think they are. I think that other crosses could produce something similar. Yours are some kind of cross. Start you a post and add your pics and I sure you will get some guesses.

 

[TyrannosaurusChix]

the bottom one is a black sex link ( known as a black star)

i just rescued two, and i thoguht the legs were black but holy crap they are starting to get yellow!!!

 

[Chris09]

The first one is a Mottled Leghorn not a Exchequer Leghorn.
Here is two pictures one of a Mottled Leghorn and the other of a Exchequer Leghorn note that the Mottled Leghorn pattern is more "Spotted" where a Exchequer Leghorn has streaks of Black.

Mottled Leghorn - (not a very good example of good Mottling but you get the idea)

Exchequer Leghorn -

Here is a better example of Mottling (but on a Old English Game Bantam)
http://www.bantychicken.com/OEGBCA/vmottled.html

Not my birds

The second one looks like a Black Sex-Link

Chris

 

[BobcatKen]

Thanks for all the replies. I believe the 80+ hens were bought as part of those "Rainbow Layers" assortments from Murray McMurray. Other breeds included Black Australorps, Easter Eggers, Barred Rocks, Silver Spangled Hamburgs, Light Brahmas, RIRs ...

Here is another breed that I don't know. Can anybody help identify it? I don't know if the pic shows it real well but the feathers are not a single solid color. Thanks in advance.

 

[LindsayB]

the first one is an Ancona and the second one is a black sex link.

 

[ve]

Partridge Rock hen

 

[swordgeek]

As Coopa Cabana pointed out, #1 is most assuredly NOT a hen.

My first impression of #3 was barnevelder, but then I noticed the curve of the back and set of the tail. Partridge rock looks right.

 

[juliechick]

The first one is an Ancona HEN. She has a very large comb because that's standard for the breed. The second one is a Black Sex Link hen.

Here's a link to Anconas on feathersite.com. http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Anc/BRKAncona.html

 

[swordgeek]

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But what's up with the SPURS??? Hens get SPURS?

 

[juliechick]

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But what's up with the SPURS??? Hens get SPURS?

Yes, some hens do get spurs. I see what you mean, though. It does look like a rooster, but the tail does not have any sickle feathers and it's hackle feathers aren't shiny and pointed either.