Mystery 13 week old. Breed? M/F?

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We ordered 25 straight run chicks from Sandhill Preservation this spring. We received 28 chicks across 10 breeds - according to the shipment slip. We received this chick, which is not one of the chicks on the list. We've looked over all their chicken offerings trying to determine which breed it is, but we have not figured it out.

Link to Sandhill chicken offerings - to see what it could be.
https://www.sandhillpreservation.com/chickens

Pictures of the mystery 13 week old. The legs are so light in color! The bottoms of the feet too! This bird is quite small (not bantam), but slim and trim, and is also the smallest of this batch of chicks. Very quick to move, flies well, and has good in-air maneuvering (read as "hard to catch"), yet never tries to fly over the fence (unlike a few other ones we have).

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@Lark60 , @Cyprus , @cstephens1987 , @Brahma Chicken5000

Here are the Sandhill descriptions of the breeds you mentioned as possibilities. Do they help with ID? From the description, my mystery chicken seems to match the Kraienkoppe description better because the comb does not look like a pea comb, and the color looks more similar to a brown leghorn (based on what my neighbor's brown leghorns look like):

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