Can you identify this chick?

[JaclynSunnyvale]

I ordered some baby chicks from a local feed store. One chick is different than the others. I am hoping for some feedback on this forum as to what breed this chick is and if it a pullet or cockerel. It’s supposed to be a blue australorp pullet. Here are some photos at 16 days old. I can take better photos if needed. Thanks for the help!

 

[MysteryChicken]

Can you get better pictures of the chick standing on a surface?

 

[Party_Chicken]

If I could see leg color that would help quite a lot but I think its a barred rock. What hatchery does the store use because some hatchery's send free extras

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

It does indeed look like a Barred Rock but the peach fuzz is a bit too blue for my liking, for it be a Barred Rock.
Some pictures please! Maybe of legs, upclose wing images... so we can see what color the feathers are that are coming in, and just a tip for better pictures - unplug the heat lamp!
Whatever she is she is beautiful!

 

[Party_Chicken]

It does indeed look like a Barred Rock but the peach fuzz is a bit too blue for my liking, for it be a Barred Rock.
Some pictures please! Maybe of legs, upclose wing images... so we can see what color the feathers are that are coming in, and just a tip for better pictures - unplug the heat lamp!
Whatever she is she is beautiful!

Aren't there a blue version of barred rocks? Either that or I'm thinking of blue cuckoo

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

Aren't there a blue version of barred rocks? Either that or I'm thinking of blue cuckoo

There are blue versions of the Plymouth Rock, but no blue versions of the Barred Plymouth Rock. The breed is called a Plymouth Rock, or shortened to Rock, and Barred Plymouth Rock is one of the color varieties of Plymouth Rock. Therefore, there cannot be a Blue Barred Plymouth Rock, as that would be two color varieties together. That is like saying that the whole Orpington breed can be called a Buff Orpington, whether they are of other color varieties or not.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Could be a Plymouth Blue Rock which is a Sex-linked hybrid created by breeding Blue Andalusian Rooster to a Barred Rock hen.

If so it's a cockerel because the headspot, & bars on the wings.


If it has pink legs, or pink legs with light feathering it could be a Blue Cuckoo Marans.

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

Aren't there a blue version of barred rocks? Either that or I'm thinking of blue cuckoo

There are.

 

[NatJ]

There are blue versions of the Plymouth Rock, but no blue versions of the Barred Plymouth Rock. The breed is called a Plymouth Rock, or shortened to Rock, and Barred Plymouth Rock is one of the color varieties of Plymouth Rock. Therefore, there cannot be a Blue Barred Plymouth Rock, as that would be two color varieties together. That is like saying that the whole Orpington breed can be called a Buff Orpington, whether they are of other color varieties or not.

Your logic is not quite right. There could be a Blue Barred Plymouth Rock. Such a bird would have both blue and barring.

I do not think it actually exists as a recognized breed, but Blue Barred is just as possible as Blue Cuckoo or Blue Wheaten or Blue Silver Duckwing (all of those are the blue version of a color that would normally involve black.)

For OP's specific chick, if it is blue and has barring, I think it is most likely to be a male of the hybrid that is sometimes called "Blue Plymouth Rock" (not a pure Plymouth Rock, it is really a sex-linked hybrid where the males are blue with white barring and the females are blue with no white barring.)

Or it could be some kind of Easter Egger or Olive Egger. If someone was crossing Cream Legbars with Blue Copper Marans, they could produce a chick like that. I think I've seen listings at some hatchery for Olive Eggers made that way.

 

[MysteryChicken]

There is the Blue Plymouth Rocks, which are Solid Blue, but not Barred.