Stowaway chick breed guesses?

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

I recently incubated 18 "Vorwerk" eggs I got from a breeder. I saw this person's chickens at a show so I do trust that this was simply an accident and a single egg ended up somewhere it shouldn't have
As well as the colour and markings being off the chick has a rose (?) comb. Also did hatch from the odd one out egg, which should've been the first sign to me but I've never had these chickens before and I know with my own chickens how much egg colour variety can happen sometimes. The egg was a light brown/cream colour.
I do not remember what other breeds this breeder had other than Lakenvelders... but we will be contacting the breeder at some point so I thought it might be interesting to see what everyone's guesses are in the meantime!

 

[JedJackson]

It has a pattern similar to gold laced Wyandotte chicks, but its legs are very white. I think it must be a mix of some kind.

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

It has a pattern similar to gold laced Wyandotte chicks, but its legs are very white. I think it must be a mix of some kind.

Wyandotte was my first thought too. But yes the legs. What confuses me further is that I've hatched MANY yellow skin cross white skin birds and the chicks always hatch with bright yellow legs and grow out of it if they only got the one gene. So that reason makes me doubt if this bird can have any wyandotte blood? Or that if it is a mix it's not a first cross?

 

[JedJackson]

Wyandotte was my first thought too. But yes the legs. What confuses me further is that I've hatched MANY yellow skin cross white skin birds and the chicks always hatch with bright yellow legs and grow out of it if they only got the one gene. So that reason makes me doubt if this bird can have any wyandotte blood? Or that if it is a mix it's not a first cross?

It probably depends somewhat on the breeds used in the mixes. I think in this case it's going to be wait and see.

I can't think of any rose comb breeds with white legs. Hamburgs and Sebrights have slate legs. I guess rose comb Dorkings have white legs, but I know of no variety of them that matches the chick's down pattern.

That's why I think it has to be some kind of cross. Time will tell. Should be fun to see what develops.

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

Thought I'd update. Impressive lace quality for a cross... but those legs are still white as can be
Has been VERY slow to feather and mature as well.

 

[NatJ]

Have you asked the breeder?

I'm wondering if it could be a cross of a Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster with a Silver Spanged Hamburg hen. I think that could produce chicks with white legs and silver laced feathers (although there is the point made earlier, about whether a chick from such a mix would have hatched with yellow feet, which it did not.)

Or maybe part of a multi-generational breeding project. For example, if someone was working toward Silver Laced Orpingtons that could explain the feather coloring and the foot coloring, and if they had been using Wyandottes as part of the development they might not have bred out the rose comb yet.