What breed is this barred baby?

[mphsgal]

Nowhere can I find a pic of a bright yellow chick with black "chipmunk" striping, which is turning to black & white barring. Legs are orange, no feathering, 3 toes. No comb growth yet. It's a two-week-old "adopt me" from Meyer Hatchery. TIA!

 

[junebuggena]

That's not barring. That's juvenile partridge type feathering. Looks like a possible Easter Egger at this point.

 

[donrae]

It's a decoy! Agree that's not barring, but it sure fools a lot of folks. The bird is probably going to be a partridge type coloring. You'll have to post again when it's around 6 weeks and fully feathered.

 

[mphsgal]

Thanks. The legs are blue, not yellow (oops). If this is an EE it's probably the extra chick as I counted 15 EEs not including this one. Last order I only got 2 breeds, this time I counted 6 breeds in the 11 ADOPT-ME babies! Driving myself batty trying to figure them out LOL.

 

[donrae]

When you said blue legs, you had me thinking Fayoumis and maybe I was wrong about the barring...but the chicks don't look the same.

How cool with these adopt me packages, though, it could be literally anything!

 

[drumstick diva]

are the "adopt me" packages all pure breeds or barnyard mixes?

 

[donrae]

they're purebreds. they're the late hatchers, when they clean out the incubators and had "leftovers" that just took a bit longer. You can get any breed of chicken, and I think ducks or turkeys, right? Straight run, of course, but the guess the breed game is a lot of fun. And you can get some pretty rare breeds for a low price....or you might get EE cockerels

 

[BantamLover21]

Looks like an Easter Egger to me, too.