More Mixed Breeds

"Avrummy" was a Rosecomb cross

"Sumo" got his name because of his parents: His mother was a huge Black Jersey Giant and his father was "Sir John," a Japanese Phoenix cross. I never understood how he came out almost white, with that parentage!
Photo courtesy of Virginia Martin

"Double A" was another son of "Kit's"

"Tiger" was an Easter Egger mix
I'm sorry I don't have a shot of his father, "Tweed," whose plumage was almost completely that herringbone pattern

"(My Little) Chickadee," A Phoenix cross
Photo ©Bill Curran

"Knothead," my friend Dennis's Demon Rooster. He's a cross between a Golden Polish rooster and a White Leghorn hen. Look at that double-bladed comb!!
Photo courtesy of Dennis Hawkins

"Cull," who hatched in my flock but now belongs to my friend Ray
Cull's history is odd. He hatched out of a pen of Marans that had been separated for breeding for nearly 2 months before the egg he hatched from was laid, yet with his pea comb and heavily feathered legs he looks to be a Brahma cross. This leads us to suspect that hens can sometimes retain fertile sperm for more than the normally accepted 3 weeks!
Photo courtesy of Ray Seney

"Foxy," a second generation Silkie cross
First generation Silkie crosses are almost always normally feathered with slight crests and 5 toes. Foxy has normal wing feathering, but you can see the fuzziness of his Silkie heritage in his body feathering.

"Mike" -- I don't know what he is, just a barnyard mix of some kind, but I like him

This is "Shoulders," a Langshan cross, probably with Brahma

And here he is at 8 years old, shortly before he passed away
Photo courtesy of Ginger Carson

"Thylacine's" mother was a Buff Brahma

"Big Daddy," a really cute bantam of totally unknown ancestry
Photo courtesy of Kathy Kuykendoll

This handsome little guy is from Singapore -- he looks like he may have some Serama blood
Photo courtesy of ya beee

"Duke" is an unknown mix - I just love those Buff Barred birds
Photo courtesy of Hayley

"Squeaky," a cross between a Birchen Modern Game bantam rooster and a Black Sumatra hen

Well, he's not really a mixed breed, he was an experimental cross between two varieties of Brahma -- very pretty bird
Photo courtesy of Sharon Green

"White Eagle" is another handsome mix
Photo courtesy of Christopher Wilson

This rooster is a Mille Fleur d'Uccle / Silkie cross
Photo courtesy of Tier

A very handsome fellow found abandoned on the island of Moorea, French Polynesia
Photo courtesy of Ila France Porcher

A handsome boy, this guy is out of a Mahogany Ginger Silver Phoenix and a Black Cochin, pictured to his right
Photos courtesy of Brian Reeder

A handsome mixed breed from Australia
Photo courtesy of Gary Craw

"Dawn" is a pretty mixed breed hen
Photo courtesy of Ginger Carson

"Spot" is a Silver Spangled Hamburg / Black Minorca cross
Photo courtesy of Ginger Carson

This is "Spike," who just appeared in my flock one day -- I assume he was dumped up the hill and flew over the fence

And this is "Claude," who definitely was dumped on the hill -- my girlfriend at the time decided he must be saved from the foxes and sat there til she managed to bait him close enough to catch