This little hen is about 3 months old. When she hatched, she hatched from a brown egg and was a light yellow color. She started to feather out white. We have NO white chickens at all other than Silkies and they are less than 5 months old.
This bird is white and has a slight Buff tone to her so we figured the egg, which our little one eyed Blue Cochin hatched, came out of our Buff Orpington pen.
Now for the head scratcher. This is what her tail looks like from the back. It is possible that this hen may have been from an egg from the same pen the 3 in my other post.
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By the way, we have one pen that has a Buff roo and Buff hens and one pen that has 3 Buff hens and a roo that is 2 different breeds. The reason for the split of Buffs is because the 3 BO hens and the Mix roo were going to a friend as soon as she gets her pen built, meantime, one of the Buffs went broody and hatched a bunch of eggs. We called them her grandchicks even though she doesn't want the babies, she wants to start out with full grown chickens.
