What do you think he/she could be?

Pixburgh

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Sep 15, 2020
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This little one has me so stumped. Surprise chick from Mcmurray hatchery (possible help to narrow down breeds). Chick came in with white down - not at all yellow, feathers are also growing in pure white thus far. Leg color is gray-ish with pink toes? I also am assuming its a cockerel simply because 95% of the surprise chicks seem to be male 🙃. I will continue to post pictures as he/she grows but thought it'd be fun to get some early guessing in! Pictures attached are chick at 3 days, 9 days, and now currently 15 days old. Last one is blurry, it's just there to show how white the feathers are coming in (with actual sunlight vs garage lighting).
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I'm going through the McMurray website...

Maybe it's a new breed that is not listed yet. They seem to be introducing a few new breeds each year.

White Giants have white feathers and dark legs, but they have dark down as chicks.
French White Marans look just right--except for having feathered legs.
Lavender Orpington might fit, except that your chick really does have WHITE feathers in the sunlit photo.

Can you get a straight frontal view of the comb?
Whiting True blue should have a pea comb, any feather color, any leg color.

For anything else, the leg color is clearly wrong. But I did once get a green-legged Bielefelder as a mystery chick. (supposed to have yellow legs, but had green.) So your chick might also have the "wrong" leg color for whatever breed it is.
 

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