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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Cobra on May 23, 2013, 05:25:59 pm

Title: Do you know the breed ?
Post by: Cobra on May 23, 2013, 05:25:59 pm

Hi, Been a while hope your all well.
 I wondered if anyone can tell me the breed of the chicken in the photo please? These have been saved from the chop in a commercial barn environment.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/601012_618845561477019_367355483_n.jpg)
Quite small but we have Orps so anything else is going to seem small lol. Brown couple have white feathers as a stripe and all fairly speckled. One thing I noticed was the tail was fairly long and quite upright.

Title: Re: Do you know the breed ?
Post by: Daisys Mum on May 23, 2013, 06:35:33 pm

I have a few different hybrids eg Lohman Browns, Isa Warrens, and Hylines and they all look very like these

Title: Re: Do you know the breed ?
Post by: in the hills on May 23, 2013, 07:07:14 pm

I was told by a local farmer (with big free range units) that all the commercial layers that look like the above are based on a "Warren type" bird. They produce different strains at times and give different names eg. hylines, lohman browns but all basically very similar.


I have hybrids that look much the same as yours. Some were described as warrens, others as hylines.


Before reading your text, I did look twice at the tail.  ;D  Does seem longer and more upright than most of mine over the years.