Welsummer Sexing?

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Yes, she may look like a production red now, but that doesn't account for her stripes as a chick or her bright yellow legs.
 
Production reds have yellow legs.

Honestly, it doesn't matter what she looked like as a chick. She's a Red female now, and that's what she's going to be for the rest of her life.
 
Production reds have yellow legs.

Honestly, it doesn't matter what she looked like as a chick. She's a Red female now, and that's what she's going to be for the rest of her life.
X 2. Some of my Faverolles chicks hatch with grey racing stripes. That doesn't mean they are a different breed. They just have some extra genes tossed in.
 
My four month old girl doesn't look at all like what I see in pictures of Welsummer hens, but as a chick she was dead on with dark eyeliner and stripes. And now her comb and jowls are getting plump and red. Is this a result of bad hatchery breeding, an increase in hormones, or is she actually a rooster?

Yes, I acknowledged that in my original question. So would it be possible for her to be a result of bad hatchery breeding or just a chick that some chicken owner produced with a mixed flock? That seems the most likely possibility, I think.
 
The only reason for this question in the first place is because the feed store I got her from sold her as a Welsummer. I recognize that she's obviously not, and I'm not arguing for it; I'm simply inquiring whether the difference is related to its gender or breed.
 

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