Barred chick or a different pattern?

[kharmon320]

I hatched this chick from an EE rooster over a variety of hens, but one hen was brown/red barred. Is this little chick barred or is that a different pattern? There was not white/yellow dot on the back of the head at all, completely chipmunk pattern down feathers.

I have a feeling that is really barring which means it is a cockerel. It's the only chick with cheeks from the 5 hatched.

 

[sylviethecochin]

I believe that the chick is wild-type in coloring. That's not barring, and the feathers should even out to a brown with a lighter chest if the chick is female, or black-breasted and a gold head and shoulders and wingtips if the chick is male.

 

[kharmon320]

Here are updated photos. So, as a wildtype colored bird (red/blue base), is the coloring female? There are a few black tips on the chest, but not black feathers. The rooster was a blue/red Easter Egger with a straight comb and cheeks. This is my only chick with cheeks out of 5 of his babies.

 

[JedJackson]

It has no barring that I can see. I think it is a pullet due to the salmon/red breast.

 

[kharmon320]

Thanks, JedJackson! I certainly hope so.

 

[ronott1]

Thanks, JedJackson! I certainly hope so.

I would go with pullet too