What Hen?

[PeskyWabbits 464]

 

Ok guys, what variety is this?

I have two of the blighters, these are the ones that escape.

 

[Tiercel 6,986]

I know sod all about chickens, but does that hen have spurs?

 

TC

[PeskyWabbits 464]

The feet are no different to my Rhode Islands. I have two Speckled Maran cockerels that are at the territorial stage. I have to show them who's boss.

 

But I have two of these sandy hens, they are more intelligent than all the others and I have never worked out what they are.

[budharley 945]

Possibly marsh daisy

[stevo79 569]

It needs culling it has Spurs which means it probably stopped laying also looks like it ls got scaly leg. Just a cross in my opinion def not a marsh daisy.

[HedgeCrawler 224]

What size is the hen,bantam or large fowl?

[budharley 945]

It needs culling it has Spurs which means it probably stopped laying also looks like it ls got scaly leg. Just a cross in my opinion def not a marsh daisy.

I've got marsh daisy pullets here that are chucking Spurs

Edited April 9, 2016 by budharley

[budharley 945]

Not million miles away but Steve right a cross with its comb

http://www.rbst.org.uk/Rare-and-Native-Breeds/Poultry/Chickens/Marsh-Daisy

Edited April 8, 2016 by budharley

[jok 3,244]

Buff Columbian lesser catchable fck you breed.

[PeskyWabbits 464]

Don't think it has scaley leg. Always struggle to catch these and it will be worse after a dose of vaseline - for the legs, before anyone clever starts.

 

Thanks for the ID

 

My hens lay in a hut, feed in a hut. Then roost in a tree above.

[MoChara 1,632]

That's identical to my buff Sussex only difference mine has the usual black feathering at neck.

 

Could be a x of this breed though, I breed her last year she had chicks hatch no black on neck when she wa crossed with an ordinary RIR

[MoChara 1,632]

Here's my buff

[PeskyWabbits 464]

Thanks MoChara, yours are really similar. The two of mine do have heads and necks like Rhode Island Reds. I was given these by a friend who tries to keep his flock pure, but seems to have bertie bassetts just like mine to me.

 

I generally keep my hens till they cark it from natural causes. These are the oldest since 'Evil Bantam' fell out of the tree in the night.

 

Out of five hens I average 4 eggs most days.

[forest of dean redneck 11,589]

Do they lay a dark brown egg? I thought it was a wheaton maran ?

[PeskyWabbits 464]

light coloured eggs I think. The colours shades seem to vary across the year. I used to leave them in their L shaped 40 foot by 10 foot run but it is getting a bit chicken sick, so I let them out at weekends and Spring/Summer evenings. I live in a semi in the sticks. Surrounded by countryside but all the houses are stuck together or farm building conversions. Mrs Nextdoor has bird feeders that empty in the wind, although her garden is behind a building, they found it once and now there's no keeping them out.

Little blighters... Mrs Nextdoor goes mental.

 

You'd think that being chased out by a banshee with a broom would imprint on them. Bloody bird brains.

The bit they are allowed in, supposed to wander to is much better with a vegetable patch, lawn and shrubby bit.