SamLockwood
Songster
- Sep 29, 2022
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My luck being what it is, of course I lose a chicken to a hawk attack on Thanksgiving and of course it's one of the two unique birds in my new flock. On the plus side the Guineas did a good job raising the alarm and making life difficult for the hawk & I was able to chase it off before it could make off with its Thanksgiving dinner.
What makes it even more aggravating is I saw the culprit skulking around the last couple days but at a distance I mistook it for a crow (in the late afternoon light it looked black, up close I could see it was actually dark brown).
It triply sucks because it was one of the ones I was thinking of getting more of later on (the other was the steel-grey feathered olive egger), hence my post-mortem interest in breed.
Here's a picture of her at 13 weeks. She was one of a "colorful egg layer assortment" I got from Meyer (hatching date August 22, if that helps). From the feathering and the slate legs, I'd say Black Copper Maran but I don't think that was an option with that assortment so maybe an Easter Egger? Even if I can't get the exact "breed" (she was most likely a hybrid) anything similar would be good.
![IMG_20221123_154312091_HDR[1].jpg](https://www.backyardchickens.com/attachments/img_20221123_154312091_hdr-1-jpg.3332452/ "IMG_20221123_154312091_HDR[1].jpg")
What makes it even more aggravating is I saw the culprit skulking around the last couple days but at a distance I mistook it for a crow (in the late afternoon light it looked black, up close I could see it was actually dark brown).
It triply sucks because it was one of the ones I was thinking of getting more of later on (the other was the steel-grey feathered olive egger), hence my post-mortem interest in breed.
Here's a picture of her at 13 weeks. She was one of a "colorful egg layer assortment" I got from Meyer (hatching date August 22, if that helps). From the feathering and the slate legs, I'd say Black Copper Maran but I don't think that was an option with that assortment so maybe an Easter Egger? Even if I can't get the exact "breed" (she was most likely a hybrid) anything similar would be good.
