I'm starting a new thread to see if anyone has an idea of this chick's breed. It has this crest like feathering on it's head. It's 5wk old. I'm supposed to have a mixture of wyandottes, buff orpingtons, ameraucanas, and marans. Do chickens even get crests?
Yes, a number of breeds get crests; none of which happen to be the ones you listed. So something else is mixed in. Your chick looks to have a crest similar to a Cream Crested Legbar, and may have some of that mixed in, possible the Marans to create an Olive Egger, but the legs (hard to see) almost look willow so I would normally say an EE...but CCL is already a blue egg layer and wouldn't normally be bred back to an Ameraucana to produce an EE unless I suppose someone really wanted to experiment with blue egg colors. Or you could have a mixed breed bird with another crested type....often Silkie mixes will have a bit of crazy crest like that, and with the very black beak, it is possible it is a Silkie mix though the feathering is natural feathering (vs. Silkie "hair like" feathers). So it is likely a mix...and not from any of the breeds listed as none of those would produce a crest. LofMc
Unless you are in Australia or Europe.... Araucana standards there allow for crested and tailed Araucanas with willow legs, but it should be muffed/bearded as well. And UK standards allow for a crested Ameraucana, but again they should have beards/muffs. You might then have a European standard Ameraucana/any other breed EE which kept the crest but lost the beard/muff in the hybrid. LofMc
I'm in the U.S. I know the pertain I got the chicks from does occasionally breed Legbars. So maybe that's it? Here's some pictures of the same chick a week ago, that shows her legs better. She does have some patchy feathering on it's legs coming in.
