I caught this one of one of my newbie chooks (they'll be called the newbies until we get other newbies! ). She's a Rhode Island Red (RIR) with the commercial sex link gene for identification of sex at hatching.
View attachment 100831
View attachment 100832
This one is called "buffy" because she a Buff Sussex. She was previously called Little, her sister was called Large. Only the size of their combs told them apart because they are/were both very big girls 4½kg each, but after we lost her sister, we renamed her to buff or buffy.
View attachment 100833
JJ is on the left. She's a normal Rhode Island Red. She's +10 years old and is having an identity crisis (not laying, old age, mixed up hormones and no rooster, so she's even started to look like a rooster with a massive neck feathering (hackles) like a rooster and now growing quite long and black marked tail feathers. If you look closely, you'll also see she has very definite spurs and old lady's legs (thick and swollen). Those spurs need to be watched if you have to hold her.
The girl on the right is Edith, currently named scruff/scruffy or scruff pot. She's moulting superbly. She's another of the newbies and a commercial sex linked Rhode Island Red.
View attachment 100834
Arya is 9 yrs of and still spritely and not one to be argued with. She also still lays once or twice a week in laying season. Her legs are really the only thing that shows her age. Arya is what's known as an Easter Egger. She's a cross between a leghorn and an aruacana.
View attachment 100835
Finally this is Rock. She's one of a trio called Pebbles, Rock & Stone. They are Lavender Sussexes and they are huge. Rock is the smallest at just 4¾kg. Pebbles comes in at a massive 5½kg and has huge spurs. All 3 look almost identical, but there are minor differences, but Rock & Stone need ID bands on them to tell them apart.
View attachment 100838
And this little girl is called Blueberry and periodically she and her 2 sisters need to have their head feathers trimmed so they can actually see to feed!