Mystery Feed Store Chick

[Rach Rach]

Hi all!
This evening I picked up some more chicks at a feed store. There was a bin of pullet Buff Orpintons and Mixed Reds with a random tiny chick hiding under the other girls. The manager said she was a mystery chick and they had no idea how she got in there.
So, of course I bought her! She is TINY. Definitely seems like a bantam of some sort but I would be grateful for your input!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

She is adorable! Many breeds have this chipmunk stripe. This is a tricky one! Looks very much like a cream leg bar chick. You will probably have to wait a week or two until some wing feathering starts coming in and then repost a photo! What a cutie!

 

[britesidefarm]

Some Chipmunk striped chickens that might give hints:

Barnevelder, Welsummer, Light Brown Leghorn, EE

What color legs does it have?

 

[CayugaMama]

She looks just like my bantam welsummer chick! She could be any of the other chipmunk colorings though!

 

[WVBirdsAndBees]

Too cute.

As others have said, chipmunks are tough. EE, welsummer, speckled sussex, brown leghorn etc all have that pattern.

For what it's worth, we got a tiny little chipmunk pattern girl that barely survived shipping in an order. We got her healthy but were convinced she was a bantam for weeks. Turned out she was a little cream legbar runt. I'm not sure you'd find one randomly in a feed store bin but stranger things have happened. Larger point is you just never know sometimes. That little diva is now bigger than some she grew up with.

You'll know more once she starts feathering. Leg color and comb type can give you clues now. Keep us updated, as I'm curious. Such a cute little one.

 

[The Moonshiner]

If shes tiny id say BBR OEGB.

 

[Jstone70]

Id say a ee

 

[NatalieP]

If this helps, here's a picture of my chipmunks next to each other. The top one, smaller, is a cream legbar and the bottom one, larger, is a speckled sussex.

 

[ladybrasa]

If you can find out where your feed store gets their chicks, that might narrow down the chipmunk chick possibilities.

 

[Rach Rach]

Some Chipmunk striped chickens that might give hints:

Barnevelder, Welsummer, Light Brown Leghorn, EE

What color legs does it have?

I just took these!