Help! I don't know what breed this chick is.

It came from MPC in a brown egg layer assortment. So it lays brown eggs.

Chipmunk color is very common in chickens.

Looking at the brown layer assortment from MPC...http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog/Day-Old-Baby-Chicks/Assorted-Brown-Egg-Layers-Standard-p581.aspx

It is probably a Speckled Sussex.

It might be a Dark Cornish, but it looks much more like an SS to me...although its legs appear more yellow. SS should have pink/beige legs....but hatcheries are often off on the leg color from standard.

LofMc

Lady of McCamley said:

Chipmunk color is very common in chickens.

Looking at the brown layer assortment from MPC...http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog/Day-Old-Baby-Chicks/Assorted-Brown-Egg-Layers-Standard-p581.aspx

It is probably a Speckled Sussex.

It might be a Dark Cornish, but it looks much more like an SS to me...although its legs appear more yellow. SS should have pink/beige legs....but hatcheries are often off on the leg color from standard.

LofMc

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I agree.

Lady of McCamley said:

Chipmunk color is very common in chickens.

Looking at the brown layer assortment from MPC...http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog/Day-Old-Baby-Chicks/Assorted-Brown-Egg-Layers-Standard-p581.aspx

It is probably a Speckled Sussex.

It might be a Dark Cornish, but it looks much more like an SS to me...although its legs appear more yellow. SS should have pink/beige legs....but hatcheries are often off on the leg color from standard.

LofMc

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X2 on LofMc.

Could be welsummer. Need picture from the side.

Possible for Welsummer but that's not a breed in MPC standard brown layer...did you get rare breeds?

Lady of McCamley said:

Chipmunk color is very common in chickens.

Looking at the brown layer assortment from MPC...http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog/Day-Old-Baby-Chicks/Assorted-Brown-Egg-Layers-Standard-p581.aspx

It is probably a Speckled Sussex.

It might be a Dark Cornish, but it looks much more like an SS to me...although its legs appear more yellow. SS should have pink/beige legs....but hatcheries are often off on the leg color from standard.

LofMc

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Agreed

I'm about to get some Americana chicks and when I looked up 'Americana chicks' they looked just like that???

MadamPoofyBrow said:

I'm about to get some Americana chicks and when I looked up 'Americana chicks' they looked just like that???

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If it's an Ameraucana chick, it's actually an Easter Egger as opposed to a true Ameraucana chick. Hatcheries and feed stores frequently and incorrectly market their Easter Eggers (which are hybrids) as Ameraucanas (which are a true breed) when they are in fact not Ameraucanas. The only hatchery that breeds true Ameraucanas is Meyer which sells Blue Ameraucanas and they charge five times as much for them as they do for their Easter Eggers, and while MPC sometimes sells Blue Ameraucanas from Meyer, they never offer Ameraucanas in layer assortments; just Easter Eggers. There is a good article at http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2011/09/ameraucana-easter-egger-or-araucana.html explaining the difference between true Ameraucanas, true Araucanas, and Easter Eggers. Having said all that, I seriously doubt the chick in question is an Easter Egger either as it was sent in a brown egg layer assortment and EEs are typically sold in rainbow egg layer assortments.

My first thought before reading the responses was Speckled Sussex. It looks like many others agree. If so, lucky you! Ours is stunningly beautiful and very sweet...wouldn't be without her.