HI I have never posted here . My son found a baby chick several months ago under some old stacked wood in a field. Since he could find no mom he brought it home. The chick hooked up with our polish chicks but we have no clue what kind it is.
ID help please
Here is one more picture.
marieortiz, I have one too! She came in a mixed bantam assortment from McMurray. I have no clue ! Mine looks exactly like you little girl chiky! The closest I came to something like her was a Porcelane, I dont know! is yours a bantam or standard?
Help somebody!!!!!! We need to know!
I have no clue what mine is. Just something my son brought home. It just looks so funny compared to our other ones.
I have 2 that I got at our local Atwoods store, that look like that. I don't know what kind they are either, but mine are a black and white feathered, and have really long legs. Atwoods orders assortments but offers no identification on individual chicks. They are pure bred, but pure bred what is the mystery. They sure are funny looking, aren't they.
Yes this gal (at least I think that is what is) is definetly funny looking!!
nice lacing on that siver polish!!!
Thanks, those are my sons. They have been very kind to the unidentified chicken. He bought 3 I think he ended up with all females!!
Hi Marie, that is one pretty Polish! I have 6 of them, such nice birds. Friendly and good egg producers. I am no expert on the new one, but looks like she may have some White Leghorn background.
Hi Jim,
Nice to see you here!! Need any silkies? (I have way too many)
The new one is a bit of a mystery that is for sure. It looked funny even as a chick to me.
It is a mixed bird, isn't it? Looks part cornish/game, part maybe leghorn?
Might be mixed. I am not very experienced in puoltry. My son got a started with silkies that he got from a local pet shop and now we have 4 or 5 different kinds.
This is one found under a piece of wood in the field. I have never seen a chicken like it before and could not find anything in the books I have.
But Marie, she is a beauty! I have been looking at Silkies at Pratt's. Yours seems to get along with Polish Crested, can they stand up to my head hen, Mootsie? She is an Americana. Pretty nice though, but big.
jimdaz, what kind is your Mootsie? I have a couple silkie hens and a silkie roo that run with the rest of my chickens. THE head chicken is a Plymouth Barred Rock who bosses them all. The silkies just make sure they stay out of her way.
My silkies seem to hold their own. The Silkie rooster is actually the boss of the yard.
I have this rooster too but no clue what he is . I also have 2 frizzles and they get along fine as long as they do not have to share the tomatoes I feed them every now and then.
Not the best picture of the other rooster but you get the idea.
Jim Pratt's is where we got our first silkies!!!
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My silkies may stay out of the PBR hen's way but have no problem bossing my new rooster who's about 17 wks old now. He and the PBR are 'Best Friends' right now, but he won't go near the silkies. He's a cross between a RIR and Harco Black.
Here's a picture.
PS. He does have 2 legs. :)
LOL, glad you told us he really has 2 legs, sure couldn't tell by looking.
He's beautifully colored.
Yes, he is nicely colored. I'm hoping to add some color to the flock. Our local feed store doesn't offer alot of 'color' breeds. There are some Reds, but even they look a little 'boring' compared to this fellow. And they don't offer any 'different' breeds.
Hi Marie...fun to see you here...and Jim too!! I didn't even know you were chicken people!!! :)
Ok...she looks like a smaller/lighter breed to me...and with that body way up on those long legs make me think she's in the cornish family. I typically use the McMurray hatchery site as an identifier if I can't figure out the breed...and she truly looks like some sort of cornish mix to me.
~Kim
Thanks Kim. She is definetly strange looking but we enjoy her.
I know this is an old thread, I was just wondering if you ever figured out what she was????
No we did not and my son sold them.
I have seen those legs before. I will tag this page, and if
I can find them, I'll post. I'm thinking a kind of game bird mix.:o)
did you sell all of them
from McMurray: " The Old English Game fowl have their origins almost with the beginnings of history. With the outlawing of cockfighting in England, the Pit Game was bred for exhibition. Modern Games were developed from the Old English and have an extremely high station with a rather peculiar style and carriage as a result."
So, it looks like a mix with this of some sort. Maybe it is an
Old English game hen. And, looks 'peculiar' to me :o)