Yes, it did look similar. As a small chick it was white/buff and black/gray. It looked just like the picture in MM catalog of the mottled houdan that I had ordered. I lost so many in shipment ( very cold weather) that didn't know what was alive and what was dead and then the second shipment of replacements. That really confused me. I didn't know what to tell them I had lost so they sent another assortment of what I had ordered and one of the things ordered was the rainbow layer assortment, thus confusion. I know it isn't the houdan because of the 5th toe and top but just confused as to what it might be.