Whatsit, et al - My Pet Chicken mysteries

julskinka

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To round out our hatch I ordered a mix of eggs from My Pet Chicken, and they were pretty poorly labeled. I’m not quite sure what the following things are - can you help? I have some suspicious but am curious what you all see!

Whatsit. Hatched out of a dark, army/sage/olive green egg. The label was illegible. I think it’s a roo but still curious what it might be. The thing they call a “Favaucana” maybe?
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@ 4 weeks
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@ 6 weeks
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@ 12 weeks

Chauncey. Hatched out of a tan/light brown egg, labeled as a “super chocolate egg layer.” Thoughts on what’s gone into the mix? It’s ugly as sin but a very sweet bird.
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@ 4 weeks
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@ 6 weeks
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@ 12 weeks

Pesto. Labeled an “olive egger,” came out of a pale blue-green egg. It now has cheeks tufts! I thought male for the longest time, but there’s been absolutely no comb development by 12 weeks so maybe time to revise that. What breeds do you see in here?
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@ 4 weeks
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@ 6 weeks
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@ 12 weeks
 
Interesting mixes :). Chauncey has to be the most interesting looking chicken I have ever seen. Very unique that is for sure. I find that I prefer the unique looking ones myself as at least I can tell them apart. We have 2 Buff Orpingtons that go by the group name “The Golden Girls” and 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes that go by the group name “The Road Runners” because they look too much alike for individual names.

We also have a Favaucana and she looks exactly like the picture on the My Pet Chicken website. She has 5 toes and feathers that cover part of her legs/feet like a Faverolle. She lays a pretty sage green egg. I am sure with these chickens being a crossbreed there is probably differences from chicken to chicken.
 
Last photo looks like a beautiful Black Australorp pullet - unless I need new glasses.

I have one of those and it’s one of my favourites.

It’s not very obvious from the photo but it actually has some leg feathering. Add that to the cheeks and blue-green egg it came from, and I doubt it? But I’m still a newbie — is it possible to mix an australorp with something to get an olive egger? I would have thought it was too pale of a brown egg.

If not for the single comb and leg feathers I’d have guessed a black ameraucana is somewhere in the mix.

Would an australorp x ameraucana make an olive egger? That still doesn’t explain feathered legs tho...
 

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