What breed is this brown egg layer?

[MIChickandGuinea]

In these photos, the chick in the front is definitely a brown leghorn (ordered specifically, not part of the brown egg collection), but I don’t know who the similar one in back is. It is a brown egg layer, and the only chipmunk marked brown egg layer listed in the Hoover’s “menu” is a Cinnamon Queen. But this baby also looks a lot like Welsummers I have had, with the fluffier, tawnier base color. It also looks a lot like Easter Egger babies, but this is a brown-egg-only assortment, and not supposedly including the dark layers like Welsummers... so ... who is that baby in the back of the photos?

 

[Alexandra33]

Green legs.... I'm thinking Easter Egger. Perhaps the hatchery made a little mistake?

~Alex

 

[Brahmachicken240]

Do they have EE’s and welsummers on their menu ?

 

[MIChickandGuinea]

Do they have EE’s and welsummers on their menu ?

Yes, both. But Welsummers are not supposedly part of the generic hatchery choice brown egg layer selection. They’re from the more expensive dark brown layers group...??? And of course EEs wouldn’t be in a brown egg collection except by mistake.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Easter Egger chick with those green legs and muffs.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Easter Egger.

 

[drumstick diva]

EE

 

[MIChickandGuinea]

Well, it seems the consensus that Hoover’s Hatchery tossed a colored egg layer in for me ... I am so curious about this little one that I have decided to keep her (I am sharing the order with friends, so had to choose which of the peeps I wanted... and this mystery is compelling! I have to know! I must see who she turns into!).

 

[MIChickandGuinea]

With more feathers on now, are we still thinking Easter Egger?

 

[ColtHandorf]

Yep. Still looks like an Easter Egger to me.