7 week old chick...What breed?

[sylviethecochin]

The rare breed assortment states it includes 35 different breeds and they only list 21 different breeds under the "rare" heading so it could include EEs. They have to be including other breeds but unfortunately they aren't listed. They offer "Ameraucanes" but from the description and the pictures displayed they are actually selling EEs under the wrong name.

The comb looks like a pea comb (defiantly not a buttercup) and I don't see it matching any of the breeds listed as rare.

Sure they do, they just call them "Araucanas" in their rarest of rare assortment list and Araucanas/Ameraucanas elsewhere. It's only when you read the description that you see a rather muddy explanation of what they are selling, exactly.

The list doesn't have much for pea combed breeds and since this is not a cornish, I'm going with muffless EE.

Okay, I stand corrected, then.

 

[drumstick diva]

EE cockerel

 

[Rob Lam]

A rooster almost certainly, and I think he's a Sicillian Buttercup.

I think I see the beginnings of a "buttercup" comb, and he has green legs and weird eyeshadow. Did he have a sort of crazy-quilt yellow-and-black head speckling as a chick?

I don't have much experience with chickens. but I had brown leghorns in my first batch. He kinda reminded me of them with a "mask" around his eyes.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Could you get a closeup picture of his/her comb and saddle feathers?

 

[Rob Lam]

Could you get a closeup picture of his/her comb and saddle feathers?

I will, but It will be thursday as I leave before light and return after dark tomorrow.

 

[lazy gardener]

Pea comb, slate legs, a lot of red coloring on shoulders: EE cockerel. Murray McMurray stands right up there at the top of the pack with their false advertising regarding Ameraucana, Araucana, vs. EE. The only large mail order hatchery I've yet found who is honest re: these birds is Cackle. Don't get me wrong, I love EE. Hatcheries should be honest about what they are selling.

 

[lomine]

Meyer also correctly labels their EEs versus their Blue Ameraucana.

 

[Rob Lam]

Could you get a closeup picture of his/her comb and saddle feathers?

 

[Rob Lam]

Thank You everyone for your help.
It is greatly appreciated.

 

[debid]

That is most definitely a cockerel pea comb.