What Kind of Chook is this?

[julesapple]

Happy Christmas & New Year everyone!

I was bought this chookbook for my Christmas. I'm trying to identify the cover-chook, but it just says the cover photo is from a photo library.

Does anyone know what sort of chook she is? I want to add her to my wish-list for 2011.

Jules

[chris]

Does this help any? BackYardChickens Forum / White chick with some black specks...What is this? - seems to mention the colour could be splash, and a hybrid from a blue line of birds, whatever that means

[chris]

Splash Maran?

[chris]

Hamburg? - Hamburg chicken hen breed | Plant & Flower Stock Photography: GardenPhotos.com

[RichmondHens]

My mother sent me that book a while back for a laugh - look through it carefully and you will see many of the photos show chickens with scaley leg and other health issues (unintentionally I think). Quite a few look really manky. I can't believe people would want to have their chooks photographed looking like that. The hen on the front cover though is very pretty.

[Nicos]

Beautiful isn't she???

I've had a Google- and come up with several breeds with the 'splash markings'...but none identical

[petal]

I got this book for my little girl and she has pointed out lots of errors - she could probably name the pages with birds with scaley leg and birds listed as the wrong breed!!!!! Love that bird on the front cover - i have seen pekins that colour somewhere.

[Glutton4...]

Not a clue here either, but then you knew that. I do have to agree that she is a smashing looking Hen!

[julesapple]

We spotted the scaley leg etc. And the pedant in me spotted typos galore too.

But she is a lovely bird...probably a Heinz 57.

Jules

[RichmondHens]

But she is a lovely bird...probably a Heinz 57.

Jules

The best ones usually are. Pure breeds are OK and we must keep the rarer ones going, but if you want a really strong healthy bird, a cross breed will win hands down every time.

[julesapple]

Our last LF cockerel is a cross breed. He's so beautiful but he has to go because he's so noisy. Thankfully we think we have a home for him. I would have liked to hatch some of our own fertile eggs but he'll be long gone by the time we get a broody. Too cold and too early even to use the bator - or I'd have stuck the green eggs in there!

Jules

[chris]

Came across this one today when looking for courses, their markings seems to vary.. but some look similar on google images.

'Exchequer Leghorn'

[Bramble-Poultry]

Its a black mottled pekin, only a very dilute one, note the feathery feet, she does have a near pekin shape but not one i'd class as "proper", tail isn;t right either but its almost like ours (except for ours are a little more pekin in shape) mottled can be mainly black with a few white spots down to this dilute version which is mainly white with a few black spots, ours tend to be a little more mottled that this one but this variation is not uncommon.

hugs
jennie