Ginger is the largest of the new 'black' chickens but is lighter in colour - even to the extent of a paler face - and has the most gorgeous outlined feathers. I think these blacks are a Rhode Island Red/Plymouth Rock cross but Ginger has more Rhodie genes expressed. We think she is younger than the other two - she has a paler comb and we don't think she's laying. Pepper and Nutmeg are. Don't look too closely - there's a ginger poo there too!
From the front she looks very like the red hens (apart from the baby comb!) and the red colouring goes right under her breast.
Nutty and Pep are quite dark on the backs with a lovely greenish sheen but Ginger shows markings on all her back feathers too. She's a real individual and is often perching when the others are chugging around. She does her own thing. She is more shy than the others who are now becoming very tame. They always assume you have food (why wouldn't you?)
Ginger is the largest of the new 'black' chickens but is lighter in colour - even to the extent of a paler face - and has the most gorgeous outlined feathers. I think these blacks are a Rhode Island Red/Plymouth Rock cross but Ginger has more Rhodie genes expressed. We think she is younger than the other two - she has a paler comb and we don't think she's laying. Pepper and Nutmeg are. Don't look too closely - there's a ginger poo there too!
From the front she looks very like the red hens (apart from the baby comb!) and the red colouring goes right under her breast.
Nutty and Pep are quite dark on the backs with a lovely greenish sheen but Ginger shows markings on all her back feathers too. She's a real individual and is often perching when the others are chugging around. She does her own thing. She is more shy than the others who are now becoming very tame. They always assume you have food (why wouldn't you?)
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What color eggs do these "blacks" lay? If they're darker brown I would say that you've possibly got a Maran or a maran cross. This breed [the Black Copper variety] lays a chocolate colored egg but many specimens that aren't quite up to the breed standard won't lay so dark.
They are mainly darker than the red hybrids but one lays a paler egg.
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