5 Weeks old Red Chick. EE?

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.
Man, that so explains that chick! I've been puzzling over it on the other thread.....thanks Kelsie! Straight comb and crest was throwing most of us way off....nothing fits that....but this is perfect!

OP--this bird is a red sex link, of some sort. Female.
 

Your's looks a lot like mine. I have twelve of these red pullets and they are about 5 weeks. I got them at TSC and my guess is that they are Rhode Island Reds.
 
JFreeman, your chick definitely looks like a Red Sex-Link to me, not an EE. Should lay some nice large brown eggs.
 
Thank you so much. :) I traded her for an EE, and I'm pretty happy about it. She's very social with me, and is okay with a petting. Like most red sex-links, she is already cliquish and doesn't like the newly added EEs I hatched 8 weeks ago. Actually, most of the chicks don't like them, so I am keeping them inside a bit longer until the next batch turn 8 weeks and put them all out together.
 

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