Is it possible this is a bantam RIR?

[Smartie_Pants]

On April 3rd, I was given a chick. My stupid cousin was giving them away at an Easter Egg Hunt.

She bought them from the feed store, and when I posted some pics you guys said she was an RIR. Now she's four months old, and still pretty small. My white silkie hen hatched 4 babies of her own the next day, and they came from my EE roo. Two became standard size, and two are bantam. The regular size chickens are bigger than her. Its hard to see in this pic since there is nothing to compare her too, but she is barely taller/bigger than the silkie is! Is she just a slow grower, or could she be a bantam? I've never had RIR's, but the other breeds I have had were usually bigger by this time.

 

[Domestic_goddess]

What ever she is, she's gorgeous!!!

 

[nicalandia]

she is a RIR red hen and its not a bantam

 

[pattypenny]

I have RIR bantams and they are much darker red than yours hen .

 

[nicalandia]

there is not a direct link between color and size, your RIR show darker color because they come from a different breeding lines

 

[Chris09]

Not a RIR.. Mabe a Production red...
Chris

 

[Smartie_Pants]

That's what I pointed out before, she's lighter than I thought RIR's were supposed to be. She's more the color of the Golden Comets I had before, So I would agree that's she's a sexlink. I guess she's just a slower grower than the BR's and other's' I've had.

 

[jossanne]

I don't think she's necessarily a sex-link, but I do think she's a production red. That's what the hatcheries sell as Rhode Island Reds...

Or could she be a NHR?