Help! What do I have?

[NinjaMarie]

The end of May, my boyfriend surprised me with 15 “Top Hat Specials” from Cackle. I have figured out all but one. In the mix were Polish, golden spangled & silver spangled appenzeller spitzhaubens and this little one. I say it’s a little cockerel and my friend says pullet, but we don’t know if he or she is a ru white polish or a silkie or what? It is smaller than the polish chicks. His or her name is Georgie and likes to sit on my arm and eat his/her treat, otherwise the others steal the treat from him. I’m sure it was a comical sight, me following Georgie around the back yard telling him to stand still for his photo shoot’ Out of all these chicks, I can only keep four pullets and I am hoping this is one of them. Don’t worry, the rest will be divided up between my sister and a sister in law to add to their flocks.

 

[TaylorGlade]

It looks like a pullet to me, but I'm no expert. And I have absolutely no idea what kind of chicken Georgie is, but she sounds like a character! And what a unique looking bird!

 

[Rose the Legbar]

Looks like a pullet! Cockerels would have their pointed saddle and hackle feathers by now. She‘s definitely a Appenzeller Spitzhauben. She also looks to be a chamois Spitz as I know their coloring can be almost all white due to poor breeding.

 

[Saveria]

It is a pullet, but I have never seen a bird like that. Could the hatchery have had a mix?

 

[NinjaMarie]

It looks like a pullet to me, but I'm no expert. And I have absolutely no idea what kind of chicken Georgie is, but she sounds like a character! And what a unique looking bird!

I am so confused as to what she could be. The day they arrived I thought possibly silkie but changed my mind a day or so later after reading up on silkies.

 

[Saveria]

She‘s definitely a Appenzeller Spitzhauben.

I didn't know they came in white, glad you knew.

 

[NinjaMarie]

Looks like a pullet! Cockerels would have their pointed saddle and hackle feathers by now. She‘s definitely a Appenzeller Spitzhauben. She also looks to be a chamois Spitz as I know their coloring can be almost all white due to poor breeding.

She is half the size of the golden sand silver spangled so I never considered she could be a chamois

 

[NinjaMarie]

I didn't know they came in white, glad you knew.

Me too!

 

[TaylorGlade]

I am so confused as to what she could be. The day they arrived I thought possibly silkie but changed my mind a day or so later after reading up on silkies.

Well, I'm glad it looks like you will be able to keep her. I want one now! Lol

 

[Rose the Legbar]

I didn't know they came in white, glad you knew.

Chamois Spitz have a tendency to have almost full white chicks. Usually that would be bred out by a breeder but this little one was from a hatchery I suspect