What's the rarest breed or variety you have?

[Somyis]

Silver Braekel, ~5 months old : ) He's still growing out his roo feathers. Originally thought he was a Campine when he was younger, but nope we can see now he's def a Braekel!

Trying to find him a home though
Edit: found him an amazing dream home lol, yipee!

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Can I see the splash breasted red?

These pictures are from her younger days. I had them in my "BYC Share" album for color identification. I'll dig deeper into other albums for a more recent picture or get a new one tomorrow. I have a Splash breasted red Dutch Bantam too so it's easy to confuse them in pictures. She's just a little over two years old and just went broody for the first time. No eggs for her though. She's probably the smallest bird I have but definitely the loudest She looks so different now.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

These pictures are from her younger days. I had them in my "BYC Share" album for color identification. I'll dig deeper into other albums for a more recent picture or get a new one tomorrow. I have a Splash breasted red Dutch Bantam too so it's easy to confuse them in pictures. She's just a little over two years old and just went broody for the first time. No eggs for her though. She's probably the smallest bird I have but definitely the loudest She looks so different now.
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She's pretty. What hatchery did she come from?

 

[HeatherKellyB]

She's pretty. What hatchery did she come from?

Thank you Of course I agree with you. She's certainly a sweet little beauty. I think she came from Privett because I got my Pyncheon at the same time. @RoostersAreAwesome helped me with the color identification and that girl wasn't as easy as the others. I also had a Blue Breasted Red OEGB hen and it seems like roostersareawesome determined that this one was splash breasted red because of the BBS rules. Since then I ended up with a splash breasted red Dutch Bantam. If you couldn't see the Dutch hens beautiful blue legs, you'd have to look twice because they favor so much.

 

[ilikepigeons]

Probably Diamond doves, more uncommon than rare but still the least common I have, I only have 2 females at the moment but I hope to find some males soon and start breeding myself a nice little flock of them
(Not my photo, but this is what they look like for those who don't know)

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

My Granny calls them "dominickers" She's so funny
I did not know they were sex able at hatch! That's always a plus! (but I guess Barred Rocks are too, so it's making sense now that I've actually thought about it)

I've noticed a lot of the older chickening crowd in my area refers to anything barred like that as a 'Dominecker', including Barred Rocks and Cuckoo Marans.

As for being sexable at hatch, that's not 100% and really depends on the line the birds come from. If bred for, it's usually a strong trait in a line, but if not selected for it can become foggy and inaccurate.

Yep! My hatchery stock Splash breasted red OEGB hen has the correct leg color but she has blue earlobes, just like my Dutch Bantams She's also extremely tiny in comparison to my other two OEGB hens. The other two hens are a Red Pyle and a Self Blue. My OEGB roosters are BB Red, Gold Duckwing (I believe), and a Black Mottled. I LOVE OEGB so much! My Red Pyle hen crows and it's absolutely adorable

Yeah, the earlobe color is a tough one. Mine are from show-quality stock and some have light earlobes, too. But I love them anyway! Some of my girls have crowed as well and it really is the cutest thing!

Good old Dominickers and Legerns

Well... technically.... 'Legern' actually is the proper pronunciation of the breed...

 

[MeanCheek]

Probably Diamond doves, more uncommon than rare but still the least common I have, I only have 2 females at the moment but I hope to find some males soon and start breeding myself a nice little flock of them
(Not my photo, but this is what they look like for those who don't know)
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So cute! I wish I could have an aviary full of little Diamonds, but it gets to cold here

 

[MeanCheek]

Well... technically.... 'Legern' actually is the proper pronunciation of the breed...

Oh, that's helpful. I never knew how to say it, but I've always enjoyed my grandmother talking about her Legerns.
I have read it's the German pronunciation of a French town/area, does that fit?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

They're actually named after a port city in Italy, Livorno. I really don't know where the spelling or how we pronounce the name comes from, but 'Leggern' does somewhat resemble 'Livorn', so maybe it's just as simple as that?

 

[MeanCheek]

They're actually named after a port city in Italy, Livorno. I really don't know where the spelling or how we pronounce the name comes from, but 'Leggern' does somewhat resemble 'Livorn', so maybe it's just as simple as that?

Yes Italian, not French. Sorry, I hadn't had enough coffee yet.