I think the feed store was wrong.... what is this little girl?

[tsuninight]

In your new pics she looks far lighter than Cadbury was even in the light. I got cad right before I snapped the pic, so she was never a lighter cream color like your other pics show. It was just the red around the neck and in the feathers that made them look so similar I think. ... that or the cute and fluffy.

Super cute pics.

Isn't it amazing how much lighting changes the color of things.

My other one, Peep, is a Barred Rock.

 

[SigningChickens]

This is my RIR and she looks different than yours so I'm thinking yours isn't?

 

[Lisaa]

Thanks for the comments, guys.

I'm thinking my little yellow and brown chick may not be a RIR.... she definitely doesn't look like yours, Signing Chickens.

Tsuninight, you're right about the lighting - it sure can make ID'ing more challenging.

Still a mystery!

 

[Island Chick]

Looks identical to my golden sex links, one I got was pretty white/yellow but had the faint striping on her back. Luckily her feathers came in brownish. Only thing different is her wing feathers are more barred and my girls have solid coloring. Now my cinnamon queen pullet looks exactly like yours does now, got her at 2wks though so not sure how yellow she started out but the down still on her was yellow.

 

[SigningChickens]

Maybe a red sex link?

 

[Lisaa]

Thanks so much for everyone's input. It will interesting to watch her grow and see what in the world she is.

She does look a lot like the golden sex link pics.

 

[Island Chick]

Here are pictures of my cinnamon queen at 16 days and 25 days old. She came from a silver laced wyandotte hen and RIR rooster. Other chicks hatched by same hen/roo and were pullets were varying shades like mine, some were a bit lighter and some were pretty dark red but still with the marks on the wing feathers and head stripes to some extent.

 

[icyangel222]

I just thought I'd note, that all the other people on here seem to be saying "this breed is mean but this one is nice". From my experience, any chicken can be mean regardless of it's breed, (unless it's labeled as an aggressive breed). I've noticed that older chickens will pick on the younger ones, I guess it's 'the pecking order'. My first 3 chickens were very nice and got along, then I got 3 more and the older ones pick on the younger ones, and then I added another younger chicken, and all the others pick on that one. It just doesn't end.

If you don't want any chickens picking on the other ones you have to get them all together and raise them together and can't add any new ones, unless you have a special way of making them not pick on the younger ones.

Now back to your chick. It is very unusual for a BO to get red coloration. I would suggest an accidental crossing of BO and RIR because accidents happen. There is such a thing as red orpington chickens but they're uncommon these days, it's possibly one of it's ancestors were a red crossed with a buff. It's all hard to say.

 

[nova022]

This little chick looks similar to yours except the green legs. It is an EE and this is how it turned out.





Those cute little yellow chicks can fool you. ; )

 

[Lisaa]

EEs are so cool. I wanted one, but the feed store didn't have any at the time. If I'd been patient and waited a week, they had some. But they seem to never know what's arriving in their next shipment.

You're right about those little yellow chicks fooling ya - the more I look at pics the more confusing it gets. I think that the takeaway from this mystery is that hatchery chicks bred for egg production can be called a number of things based on general characteristics - golden comets, golden sex links, cinnamon queens - but it doesn't mean anyone will know just what they'll look like when they grow up! Nor does it mean that we know for sure what type of chickens the parents were.

All good, though! She's a sweet chick.