As far as I know he may have gotten them from a hatchery. Looking back now literally all of them looked identical except for the one that I suspect is a Sasso. She stuck out like a sore thumb but I didn’t care much about that then.
First photo is of the hens standing near one another with a rooster. Second pic is of the hen who I am sure is a bielefelder. (Although the pic is a bit outdated, so it may be hard to tell if she’s actually a bielefelder) the third pic is a slightly more recent one that I took of the hen that I...
Back then, I was very inexperienced in chicken keeping and couldn’t tell chickens apart very well. So when I came across a guy selling chickens that (at the time) all looked all alike to me, I used an ai app to identify the chickens. It came back as “bielefelder”. I asked for the biggest hens of...
Here’s some extra details! She doesn’t weigh that much, the bottom of her feet are bright yellow, and she has orange eyes (if you couldn’t tell in the picture)
Both of these are kinda outdated, so i might post new pictures of them to this thread soon! They lay nice, big brown eggs! Even through winter, they still lay! Layer feed and extra light works wonders :D
Here’s one of my bielefelder hens! This one looks a bit lower quality in terms of plumage, but I love her all the same! Also, her sibling looks more like the bielefelder you can find online. Although I only have a pic of her sibling when she was young.
Sidenote: Snow was kept with what I think to be her siblings in a cage. 20 of them to be exact. And they all, more or less, had some form of crossbeak. All Easter eggers. Poor things! Hopefully these features get bread out of Easter eggers entirely before it gets too out of hand (even though it...
Although, I’ve heard of cross beak worsening over time. Fortunately, I had been handed my little lady (snow) amongst a bunch of other, more sickly hens. I’ve even seen an Easter egger with crossbeak so bad, it looked like it was inflicted by another chicken rather than hereditary.
It’s kinda hard to see because she was moving In the pic (not to mention it’s dark), but she has crossbeak. Not nearly as severe as some of the others I’ve seen. You need a keen eye to even tell if she has it. I’d call her form of crossbeak: “least concern”.
I did more research, and yes! She is more than likely an Easter egger! As for the blue egg laying gene, I’ll just have to wait and see when she lays her first egg. Thanks!:wee