5 Weeks old Red Chick. EE?

[JFreeman]

Could I get a little help identifying this breed? When I first brought her home, I thought she was an EE, but she has yellow legs. She's about 5 and a half weeks old now.

These were taken today












This was taken the day before yesterday:



This is what she looked like at about a week and a half old.

 

[sourland]

Single comb and yellow legs - very little chance of any EE blood in that chick. Perhaps it is a red sex link.

 

[Kelsie2290]

I'd vote she is a red sex link, she might have been sold under various names depending on the hatchery, Red Star, Golden Comet, ISA Brown, etc.

 

[JFreeman]

I bought her from Meyer and none of those breeds were one I ordered. We did have a "Meal Maker", but we already figured out which one that one is.

 

[Kelsie2290]

If she was from Meyer she is probably their version of red sex link they call Golden Buff, would think there is a good chance she is your Meal Maker. Have you id'd your other chicks, what other extra chick did you get?
https://www.meyerhatchery.com/produ...D=GBUS&grd_prodone_filter=PRODUCT_ID = 'GBUS'

 

[JFreeman]

She didn't look like their Golden Buffs as a day old chick though...

The extra chick has been posted on "What Breed is This?" and no one can give us an answer on it. When the order was received, we didn't have any extra chicks other than what was listed. We can't tell the difference between the OEs and the EEs, but that was a little expected.

Here's the link to that thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/861718/5-week-old-pullet-breed-guesses-please



If Blondie IS a Golden Buff or whatever red sex-link, and she is the Meal Maker, then maybe the hatchery screwed up and gave us the wrong breed of something else instead of a Barred Rock? My friend who has the blue pictured took the majority of the order and said several died from our orders, and she couldn't really tell the difference at the time so it's all confusing. I do know for a fact Blondie came from Meyer. I had 13 chicks to her 35 between McMurray and Meyer, and all I ordered from McMurray are Mottled Houdans and Black Jersey Giants. The exotic chick from McMurray (Golden Laced Polish) died the same day as delivery so we know the blue didn't come from there, and there was an unexplained black chick from Meyer.

Has Meyer ever been known to send the wrong breed in an order?

 

[Kelsie2290]

You know, Meyer is using Legbars in some of their Olive Eggers, that would give you a crest, and if they use them and blue marans or something you should get pretty much that bird maybe. Off their website ...
Olive Eggers are one of our new, eggciting projects for 2014. We are so eggcited about these that we have set up two different breeding programs to create these fabulous chicks. By crossing some of our foundation stock of Legbars, Marans and Ameraucanas we can create these wonderful little hybrids who will lay (drum roll) an olive colored egg! There is no guarantee which of the two breeding programs your chicks will originate from, but you will be delighted by the varied color patterns of these chicks. Though they may all look different, each of them will lay an array of olive eggs, from light to very dark.

 

[JFreeman]

@Kelsie2290 , you have probably given the best explanation for the tuft than any one gave before. Thank you SO much. Now we need to figure out which of the others are my OE...

 

[Studio2770]

Am I the only one getting roo vibes?

 

[Kelsie2290]

I wondered about that in the second pic, but it looks girlyish in the rest, can't figure out what it would be if a male either, their red ranger meat birds shouldn't be that color.