Help identifying chick!

[taurusladee]

Hi All! I am new to posting here but we have learned a lot from this site! We recently received a "rare" chick with our last shipment of cornish birds and we have no idea what this little chick is so any help would be appreciated!

 

[wastintime202]

I think it is too early to tell right now..it is so cute..makes me want to get some more..my new chicks are 8 wks old

 

[taurusladee]

I wondered, we have looked at several that look like this but the green legs/feet I thought would help!

 

[taurusladee]

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now that she is a little bigger, here is our rare girl on the roost with my red! Someone told me she is a sebright?

 

[ramirezframing]

looks like what a bunch of my dads ee chicks did , and all that went from a brown chipmunk chick to black and white feathers are boys! And since you said it had green legs as a chick, I'd say it's an ee or easter egger

 

[JakeBremer]

The Rare chick is a Ameraucana Cockeral.

 

[aoxa]

The Rare chick is a Ameraucana Cockeral.

It is an EE, not an Ameraucana - Hatcheries do not sell purebred Ameraucanas.

The picture does not adequatly show enough for me to determine gender, though most black and white EEs are boys. It could be a girl. How old is the chick?

Love the picture LOL

 

[taurusladee]

It will be 10 weeks tomorrow, I don't think it is a boy because I would think the crown would at least be bigger by now! So I keep calling it a "she." We didn't buy it, you know how McMurray puts a "rare" chick in with your order? Well this was it, there were two different ones but one didn't make it and our recent order of Cornishes we got another rare but it didn't make it either.

This little sucker is feisty...she is so full of herself, she is going after a few of the reds that are twice her size! It is freaking my one girl out pretty bad....but if I happen to put her in with all the reds (we have 24 hens), they just go nuts and she will like jump on our shoulders or the fence to get away from them. haha, she seems to have "balls" when it is just her and 3 or 4 of the reds but she loses them when she is WAY out numbered!

I looked up the sebright and it does look alot like her, I'll have to get a pic of her legs, to me they look green but I guess they could be "slate" I don't think it is an Americauna because none of the pics I looked at of the chicks looked like her when she was little...not to mention she has the strangest little "chirping" noise that she makes, none of our other chicks ever made a noise like this....

 

[taurusladee]

Found some pics of the EE chicks, a few I saw look almost exactly like her when she was a baby chick! She does have the little "tufts" around her ears but not around her head....she is a pretty little thing, just not sure if she is going to fit in with my Red girls.....I would think they can all get along sooner or later but now that our cornishes are out of the coop I have an area to "introduce" them slowly....

I just hope she isn't always as high strung as she is now! I mean, wow! Hard to deal with when our reds are so calm and they have been so easy to care for and they are just flat out friendly as can be....

 

[farmerChef]

Almost every chick that people post on here as a extra "Rare Breed" chick is a Easter Egger male.
Can you please post a picture of the chick's comb? EE's have pea combs, they will not get as big as your red's single combs.