Does anyone have a photo of a black breasted red Malay hen or chick?

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I bought several chicks at a feed store today and one of them is a black breasted red Malay, according to the store owner. I know he ordered his chicks from Ideal, so I checked their site and there is only an illustration of them.

https://secuservices.com/ideal/newideal/selectproduct.aspx?qty=1&ID=BBRMP&Product=867

If anyone has a chick or young pullet photo, I would love to see it so I could see if it looks like mine. I would also like to see a photo of an adult hen. The feed store guy said all of his standard chickens were supposed to be pullets because that's all that he ordered. This is why I assume ours is a pullet.

I have searched this site and did a google search and can find nothing but rooster photos of this breed. I have read that they are an aggressive breed, which I didn't know when I bought it. I just bought a few chicks that looked pretty.
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I am going to go and make some pics of my malay babies, 1 day old and 1 week old. The 1 day old looks so cute and chick like and the 1 week old already resembles more a dinosaur then a chicken!!

I love my Malays, they can be aggressive with eachother and adding new hens to an established group can be troublesome(my 2 malay girls still beat my poor saipan pullet that I put in the enclosure 3 months ago) but with people they are sweethearts.
 
Here are some pics of my lil ones:

So the big one is about a week old and the little one I hatched yesterday:
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and here is a picture of one of my Malay hens:
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From what I could find out about Malays hens from the BBRed Malays do not have the same pattern as hens of other breeds in the BBRed Pattern. Malay hens can vary greatly, at least from stock that has not been for any particular hen pattern.
My stock is from Ideal as well and all 3 hens are/were different colours. The two I have now are the 1 pictured plus another that has the same pattern as the hen in the pic but on a red base instead of brown. The third hen I had sadly got lost to a bobcat last winter but she was black with brown and gold penciling and lacing(more of a dark cornish pattern I suppose).
 
Thank you. There must not be as many of these around because I wasn't even able to find a picture of one. Those look like our chick, so the guy at the feed store must be correct about what she is. He also ordered his from Ideal.
 

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