Speckled Sussex or Silver Leghorn chick, from Privett Hatchery

[SillyMissLily]

or something else??

I did what many people do, went to the feed store and came home with chicks. They were ordered from Privett, and the bins of chicks were labeled "hatchery choice." Looking at the 2018 list of breeds I figured this little one to be possibly Speckled Sussex or Silver Leghorn, less likely Welsummer.
I've had several welsummer chicks over the years and it seems like they are darker or more strongly marked. I've only raised one speckled sussex a few years ago, and never any leghorns of any variety.

Single, straight comb, clean yellow legs.

What do you think?

 

[Gray Farms]

Check the legs. Sussex have white legs. Leghorn have yellow.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

agreed. I saw you say yellow legs, so that rules out the Sussex.

 

[SillyMissLily]

Okay, for fun here are pix of her next to her Ancona sibling. I couldn't make up my mind if legs were yellow, pink, or white... (Or maybe I'm just in denial that it's a leghorn, 'cause I was hoping for the sussex.) Yeah, yellow legs.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Well, Speckled Sussex, Wellsummer or Brown Leghorn are your apparent options...
https://meyerhatch.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/2142226-standard-chicks

and I'm leaning more towards the Speckled Sussex.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Could you just wait a couple weeks?

 

[SillyMissLily]

Could you just wait a couple weeks?

Well, it looks like I'm going to have to, I just wondered if there were little tell-tale markings I didn't know about. Wasn't looking forward to a fence-jumping leghorn, but whatever I got I'll be happy with. I'll keep you updated as she grows!

 

[emmyn74]

Wow....I didn't realize how different the speckled sussex can look....these r what mine look like. Younger of course ..

 

[SillyMissLily]

Turns out she is a WELSUMMER!!

And now I have four Welsummers.

 

[cstephens1987]

Turns out she is a WELSUMMER!!

And now I have four Welsummers.

Yeah I was going to say the coloring looks more like welsummer to me. Legs and down color didn't look like my SS anyways