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[redinator]

New Hampshire Red was my second guess on the fifth one, too!

According to this: https://blog.meyerhatchery.com/2021/02/rhode-island-red-vs-new-hampshire-red/ they start out soft of a buff redish color.

 

[alinas2010]

According to this: https://blog.meyerhatchery.com/2021/02/rhode-island-red-vs-new-hampshire-red/ they start out soft of a buff redish color.

Thank you, I didn’t know that. I’ll stick with my first guess. NHRs of poor stock and CQs with straight combs can look similar as adults!

 

[redinator]

Thank you, I didn’t know that. I’ll stick with my first guess. NHRs of poor stock and CQs with straight combs can look similar as adults!

Cinnamon Queen, Hoover's version of the red sexlink, seems more likely. I have one, but she's only 11 weeks and still has her juvenile colors, so I can't say for sure. She did start out with a chipmunk pattern and should feather out to look very similar to a RIR.

 

[redinator]

This looks an awful lot like a cinnamon queen. They look like chipmunks as chicks. She doesn’t look red enough to be laying yet, though and CQs should lay brown eggs. Someone had said she was laying green here I thought?

There is an olive colored egg being laid, but I don't think we know which pullet is laying it . . .

 

[alinas2010]

Cinnamon Queen, Hoover's version of the red sexlink, seems more likely. I have one, but she's only 11 weeks and still has her juvenile colors, so I can't say for sure. She did start out with a chipmunk pattern and should feather out to look very similar to a RIR.

I agree. I have them, too, but the ones with rose combs. Ours have more lacing on them, but they look similar.