Is this really a RIR?

[Esshea]

I got 6 Heritage Rhode Island Reds from TSC. They are about 6-7 weeks old now. As soon as this one’s feathers came in they’ve had blackish “laced” tips. She (or he ) is also a bit smaller than the rest of the RIRs. She’s always seemed to fly better than the rest and gets up higher than the others. Think she/he is a RIR or something else?

 

[NatJ]

It's common to have minor individual variations among chickens of the same breed, but I agree that one is a little extreme. However, I think it still looks more like a Rhode Island Red than like any other common breed, so it probably is a Rhode Island Red.

 

[Three Little Bunnies]

She doesn't look that much different from an RIR, she could be an RIR or another breed. I think that if she is an RIR, she is indeed a "she".

 

[Feath3rDust3r]

She looks like one I used to have that was a RRI mixed with Gold Laced Wyandotte

 

[annageckos]

Probably a hatchery quality RIR, sometimes also called a production red.