[wolverine]

i keep getting asked what breeds i have and have no idea can anyone help from this pic?

[Spana]

The one at the back looks to have a bit of Cornish/ Indian game about it.  Hard to tell from your pic

[wolverine]

the lady in the shop called them merrydale copper black merrydale snowbell and merrydale blue the shop was called merrydale incase you hadnt guessed dont know if that helps joyfull gave me an idea of breeds from those names but thought the pics might help get a better idea
come on chicken experts lets test your knowledge   

[Spana]

Merrydale hybrids sorry

[Hayley'sHens]

More commonly known as (from front to back) Blackrock, Sussex and Bluebelle. All lovely hybrids though 

[nicky d]

lovely birds     nickyx

[GrannieAnnie]

The White I would say more Amberlink or Amber star rather than sussex, it has no black on its collar.

that's the problem with these people who sell a lot, they give them their own names!

[TeaPots]

lovely girls  :happy: I get a lot of stuff from Karen (Merrydale) and her sister business regency. She has always been very good to me.  She had all her stock stolen a year or two back. Shes great, so are her girlies 

[GrannieAnnie]

And your point is Teapots??  I wasn't saying anything against Merrydale.  In fact I have heard good things from others about her too!  All I meant was, when you get different people rearing the hybrids.  Although the hybrid is a particular colour, they can have many names according to who rears them.

One example is the Goldline brown hybrid!  It used to belong to ISA so was called a Goldline, now Hendrix Genetics took over ISA completely, although I believe they did own at least part of it before, but now the Goldline is called a Bovans Brown, but its the same chicken!

[joyfull]

I agree with you GA, thats the problem and also with the blackrock chickens that name is copyrighted and only authorised breeders can call their birds by this name, others have to make up names like the copper black so people don't know what they are getting.

[LittleRedHen]

I haver a Black Rock and that front one does not look like mine.  My hen doesn't have the same shaped head as the one in the picture.  I also have a Light Sussex, and that bird in the picture doesn't have any black on it.

[joyfull]

just had a look a merrydales website and the snowball is definately not an amberlink as it lays white eggs so could be leghorn cross. The copperblack on their website has more copper on it and looks like my copperblack (but then again mine didn't come from an authorised breeder so it could have been his version either that or he bought it in    )

[goodegg]

blackrocks come in all colours and the sussex could be a white sussex

[joyfull]

do white sussex lay white eggs? as far as I am aware their eggs are cream to light brown and the website says white eggs.

[TeaPots]

And your point is Teapots??  I wasn't saying anything against Merrydale.

  Now Annie  this is only me  please dont be defensive. I was kinda saying they were lovely birdies, and I love Karen, and she has had some rotten luck etc etc.  At NO POINT did I think you were being negative, honest 

I think the white egg laying hybrids are white star type? Lots of leghorn in there somewhere. They are prolific layers, can be a bit flighty, but I have 2 and love them to bits