Crele Penedesenca or Partridge Penedesenca?

[Daderbee]

Evie is 3.5 weeks old now (about 2.5 or 3 weeks in pictures here) but she was bought as a 4 or 5 day old Crele Penedesenca pullet. She doesn’t look like a Crele chick due to the chipmunk down coloring but her wings look like Crele from the pictures of adult hens I’ve seen. Is it too young to tell?

Black chick is a for sure 100% Black Copper Marans.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Where did you get her?

 

[Daderbee]

Where did you get her?

Just a local farm / feed store. They get their chicks on Fridays (I order mine from a Meyer hatchery and get mine usually on Wednesdays so not sure what hatchery the store orders from).

 

[ColtHandorf]

A feed store got Penedesencas? It's been 15 years since I raised any Creles so I can't remember exactly what they looked like. It is close to what I remember. But I'd suspect coming from a feed store to find something a bit more common like a Welsummer.

 

[Daderbee]

A feed store got Penedesencas? It's been 15 years since I raised any Creles so I can't remember exactly what they looked like. It is close to what I remember. But I'd suspect coming from a feed store to find something a bit more common like a Welsummer.

Oh yeah, my feed store gets rare/strange breeds in all the time. The Black Copper Marans chick was purchased at the same time and same feed store as the Penedesenca chick - they also had Barnevelders, Salmon Faverolles, Blue Langshans, Turkens, Buckeyes, Lavender Orpingtons (always sold as SR for the Lavender Orpingtons).

My first Partridge Penedesenca rooster also came from this store but I don't have him anymore since he was getting way too aggressive with my daughter and myself.

 

[Alexandra33]

You have a Crele. The head spot and faint barring are both dead giveaways.

Such a pretty girl.

~Alex

 

[Gray Farms]

Pattern is right for crele.