What color will she be?! I have never had one or seen this color before!

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She's blue based and has what looks like a blurry striped pattern, which is often seen in partridge. Do you have any idea what colors her parents could've been?
Certainly a very cute little chickie!
 
She's blue based and has what looks like a blurry striped pattern, which is often seen in partridge. Do you have any idea what colors her parents could've been?
Certainly a very cute little chickie!
I have a blue laced red Wyandotte rooster and some Wyandotte hens but theirs normally look like little cheetahs. I do have a “sapphire gem” that I got from TSC and she has a pretty red head that I’m thinking she might be from. But I also have a Barnevelder rooster.
 
I have a blue laced red Wyandotte rooster and some Wyandotte hens but theirs normally look like little cheetahs. I do have a “sapphire gem” that I got from TSC and she has a pretty red head that I’m thinking she might be from. But I also have a Barnevelder rooster.
So, you have a few options for what the chick could be. It's hard to know 100% with just that one picture and before its feathers have started to come in. But because of how indistinct the chipmunk stripe is, I think it's more likely the mother is the non-Wyandotte.

If the mother was the "Sapphire Gem" which is not a Sapphire Gem and the BLR rooster, the chick will probably be blue incomplete laced. Her lacing won't be as neat as a BLR Wyandotte's.

Technically, the parents could've been a BLR Wyandotte hen and the Barnevelder rooster, but since they're both patterned/laced breeds, I would guess the chick would've had a more distinct stripe if those two were the parents.

She also could be splash laced red, if the parents were both blue laced red, but again, I feel like the chick's pattern would've been more distinct in that case. Then again, pattern quality differs from bird to bird.
I personally haven't raised blue or splash laced red Wyandotte chicks, so I'm not super knowledgeable on the range of shade and pattern quality they may have, so take what I've said with a grain of salt.

Post some updated pictures when her feathers start to come in, by which point it will be easier to get an idea of her color.

(I have to note the rooster pictured isn't a pure Wyandotte. He has a crest and a different body type to proper Wyandottes, he's a Wyandotte mix.)
 
Her chick down looks a lot like my EE, Easter. She turned out light gold and silver as an adult. So yours could look something like a blue laced red wyandotte, but lighter?
 

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I had two that were striking as chicks, where their father was a blue-laced red Wyandotte. Their mother might have been a BCM or something else.

because I only had two gray chipmunks out of....maybe fifteen to eighteen chicks, I kept a closer watch on them because of how pretty I thought they were. While they looked different, one kind of looks like your's. They both grew up to be nearly identical except one male, one female.
 

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Hi there. I have a Prairie Bluebell Egger that looked exactly like your chick! I think yours will look like mine. Here are some grow-out pics!
 

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