What is she?

[Loupup98]

I ordered chicks from Murray McMurray and opted for the free rare chick. I believe this little gal is my freebie but unable to find any chick pics online that resemble her. Any ideas? Her colors remind me of a parakeet, pale blue with dark grey and white chipmunk stripes and soft yellow belly and head. She has grown in her wing feathers since this picture and they are dark gray with white.

 

[JedJackson]

I ordered chicks from Murray McMurray and opted for the free rare chick. I believe this little gal is my freebie but unable to find any chick pics online that resemble her. Any ideas? Her colors remind me of a parakeet, pale blue with dark grey and white chipmunk stripes and soft yellow belly and head. She has grown in her wing feathers since this picture and they are dark gray with white.

Looks like it has a rose comb, so I am thinking silver spangled Hamburg.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Coloring and comb doesn’t match any of the birds in their rare breed section.

 

[Loupup98]

Coloring and comb doesn’t match any of the birds in their rare breed section
That's why i was stumped, haha!

 

[Loupup98]

Looks like it has a rose comb, so I am thinking silver spangled Hamburg.

Very possible, i googled them and they do look alot alike thank you!

 

[SueT]

With the grey legs and large nostrils could it be an Appenzeller Spitzhauben? Here's what mine looked like as chicks....show us some more pics if you can.

 

[AGirlAndHerChickens03]

Not sure about the breed, but I'd try to be aware. McMurray gives rare roosters most often, since they can't get people to buy them otherwise. I ordered a batch of 15 hens with plus one bonus rare breed. They gave me an Egyptian Faiyumi rooster. He was the devil. He picked on all the other chickens and hurt them all the time. We didn't want to kill him ourselves so we took him out far into the woods and left him (I know, it's not humane, but it wasn't my idea and I didn't know it happened until later). We thought we had gotten rid of him, but the next morning he was back in our yard. We left him free-ranging the rest of the time we had him. Egyptian Faiyumi are apparently really good survivalists and have a great navigation sense. On Craigslist we put up a very honest description of his behavior for anybody to take him. Somebody took him for a free-ranging flock rooster.

Anyways, just be aware of the possibilities and keep an eye on your chicks to watch for bullies.

 

[Flockandfowl46]

I'm going to say Easter Egger...looks identical to what mine looked like as a youngster plus blue legs

 

[Loupup98]

Not sure about the breed, but I'd try to be aware. McMurray gives rare roosters most often, since they can't get people to buy them otherwise. I ordered a batch of 15 hens with plus one bonus rare breed. They gave me an Egyptian Faiyumi rooster. He was the devil. He picked on all the other chickens and hurt them all the time. We didn't want to kill him ourselves so we took him out far into the woods and left him (I know, it's not humane, but it wasn't my idea and I didn't know it happened until later). We thought we had gotten rid of him, but the next morning he was back in our yard. We left him free-ranging the rest of the time we had him. Egyptian Faiyumi are apparently really good survivalists and have a great navigation sense. On Craigslist we put up a very honest description of his behavior for anybody to take him. Somebody took him for a free-ranging flock rooster.

Anyways, just be aware of the possibilities and keep an eye on your chicks to watch for bullies.

Thanks, that makes sense that they would give away the males, I just hope it is one that can handle cold weather. I emailed them to ask if they screen their orders for location and choose the breeds depending on that and unfortunately, they don't. I didn't want a rooster at first but I kind of hope it is one now, after going through the shipping trauma (on my part, lol) I don't really want to put those little babies or myself through that again

 

[Loupup98]

With the grey legs and large nostrils could it be an Appenzeller Spitzhauben? Here's what mine looked like as chicks....show us some more pics if you can.
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I will try to get some more tonight. It had a lot of blue and grey on its back that is now fading out to mostly light grey.