One flew over the kookoo's fence!

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Hi all, my name is Marcy. My husband, kids and I are now a retired military family settled in Glendale AZ! I am not new to chickens by any means, when I was 6/7 my sister did a chicken egg project for science and we became the neighborhood zoo (at the time we had mice, hamsters, fish, cats/dogs, guinea pigs, and a pet skunk!). Now 30 years later we have taken over my childhood home and kept the zoo open. Currently we only have 6 chickens, but with science fairs right around the corner we are expecting at the very least 1 dozen newbies. This afternoon we were out starting to rebuild the ladies coop when our son brought a wet bird he just fished out of the pool to us. I thought right a way it was a baby chick, but my husband swears it's not...can anyone settle this?
 
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Hi all, my name is Marcy. My husband, kids and I are now a retired military family settled in Glendale AZ! I am not new to chickens by any means, when I was 6/7 my sister did a chicken egg project for science and we became the neighborhood zoo (at the time we had mice, hamsters, fish, cats/dogs, guinea pigs, and a pet skunk!). Now 30 years later we have taken over my childhood home and kept the zoo open. Currently we only have 6 chickens, but with science fairs right around the corner we are expecting at the very least 1 dozen newbies. This afternoon we were out starting to rebuild the ladies coop when our son brought a wet bird he just fished out of the pool to us. I thought right a way it was a baby chick, but my husband swears it's not...can anyone settle this?
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Alright Marcy,
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great to have you joining the BYC flock
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BYC has a very useful learning center
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Try to enjoy your retirement
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A baby chick would have fuzzy down not feathers like that.

The feathers on this bird are adult but ragged from maybe molting, or mite damage. Also looks to have a sore on her back - which can happen when overbred by roosters. It doesn't strike me as being a chicken . If she is, she's a mixed breed or some breed I've never seen before.

How big is she in comparison to some common item like a gallon of milk, or loaf of bread? It's hard to judge if she is tiny or not.

You could post her photo on "what breed or gender is this."
 
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Welcome to BYC!

Looks like a Coturnix Quail to me. When you get it completely dried off, repost a pic and I will be able to tell you if this is 100% correct.

Good luck with this little bird and welcome to our flock!
 

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