What breed is this

[NatJ]

I think it's a Fayoumi. I can't find anything else on Meyer's website with a silver/black pattern, dark clean legs, and a single comb. Unless it's one of their colorful egg layer crosses, but the single comb ones there tend to have a head tuft (from Cream Legbar parentage.)

https://www.meyerhatchery.com/productinfo.a5w?prodID=EYFS
The chick photo on the catalog page only shows them from the front, so I can't say whether the backs looked alike.

https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/egyptian_fayoumis.html
Different hatchery, but has a video of some Fayoumi chicks so you can see them from all sides--they do have stripes on their backs.

 

[samshan21]

I think it's a Fayoumi. I can't find anything else on Meyer's website with a silver/black pattern, dark clean legs, and a single comb. Unless it's one of their colorful egg layer crosses, but the single comb ones there tend to have a head tuft (from Cream Legbar parentage.)

https://www.meyerhatchery.com/productinfo.a5w?prodID=EYFS
The chick photo on the catalog page only shows them from the front, so I can't say whether the backs looked alike.

https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/egyptian_fayoumis.html
Different hatchery, but has a video of some Fayoumi chicks so you can see them from all sides--they do have stripes on their backs.

I don’t know but when he or she was a baby it was more grey and then it had a stripe and the fayoumi looks more red with a different back pattern.

 

[NatJ]

I don’t know but when he or she was a baby it was more grey and then it had a stripe and the fayoumi looks more red with a different back pattern.

That makes sense.

The only other thing I can find is Meyer's various colorful-egg mixed-breeds, the ones they say can have any color of feathers.

If it's a female, I suppose you'll know a lot more when she starts laying eggs: Fayoumi lays white egg or possibly cream, but not blue or green or olive

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'm gonna say it's a Silver Pencilled Rock. The legs should lighten up with age. There's yellow on the back of the shanks.

 

[NatJ]

@samshan21
What breed did the chicken end up being?
Any recent photos? (I assume she's all grown up by now.)

 

[samshan21]

@samshan21
What breed did the chicken end up being?
Any recent photos? (I assume she's all grown up by now.)

She ended up being a silver pencilled rock but she had passed.