Mystery chick is a big rooster now... but what is he?

[featherhead007]

MCMurray ; Chime in anytime, I know you are watching us!

 

[NatJ]

Whitings can also have a straight comb, but most are rose. But this ones body just doesn’t look like a whiting to me. However, there’s no real standard for them so.... anything’s possible.

McMurray sells two kinds of Whitings:
"Whiting True Blue" with a pea comb and many colors of feathers
"Whiting True Green" with a single comb and brown feathers (may have white or black in feathers as well, but the photos look like Red Star Sexlink or Rhode Island types coloring)

I think it's the second kind, the "True Green," given the single comb and brown feathers.

 

[NatJ]

@NatJ - Actually, I have two Golden Laced Wyandotte's with single combs, not rose combs. They are still wyandotte's, but hatchery quality. Wyandotte's can have single combs.

Well, Wyandottes are not SUPPOSED to have single combs. I know it happens sometimes.

And I agree this one has the wrong feather color to be any Wyandotte variety McMurray sells. I did think about whether Blue Laced Red could have produced a Black Laced Red that might also have a single comb, but the chick down is wrong for that.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Well, Wyandottes are not SUPPOSED to have single combs. I know it happens sometimes.

Yes, I know that they are not supposed to have single combs, but they can have single combs.

 

[Molly020403]

I really appreciate everyone's replies! Is there anything I can do to help identify him? I posted on the McMurray page, but no one replied to my thread there. Such a mystery!

 

[jolenesdad]

I really appreciate everyone's replies! Is there anything I can do to help identify him? I posted on the McMurray page, but no one replied to my thread there. Such a mystery!

Call mcmurray and ask them who to email with photos. Most hatcheries are very helpful with that Once they have feathered out. Let us know what they say!

@NatJ thanks for the WTG info.

 

[Molly020403]

Call mcmurray and ask them who to email with photos. Most hatcheries are very helpful with that Once they have feathered out. Let us know what they say!

@NatJ thanks for the WTG info.

Great idea!

 

[house1917]

Ok after seeing the single comb Wyandotte, I'm rolling back my not-a-Welsummer post and voting for 'hatchery grade Welsummer'.

Not sure what snuck into the Welsummer pen, but he's 'Welsummer' enough to carry the title from McMurray!

Hopefully he's carrying his half of dark brown speckled egg genetics to pass on to his girls!

 

[jolenesdad]

Ok after seeing the single comb Wyandotte, I'm rolling back my not-a-Welsummer post and voting for 'hatchery grade Welsummer'.

Not sure what snuck into the Welsummer pen, but he's 'Welsummer' enough to carry the title from McMurray!

Hopefully he's carrying his half of dark brown speckled egg genetics to pass on to his girls!

I think this is highly likely. Especially with all that black on the chest and I just went back and saw the chick photo, which looks totally like a welsummer.

 

[MysteryChicken]

This is a welsummer cockerel of mine for comparison.