What is "she"?

[wornoutmomto3]

I am hoping she is a she. I picked her out of TSC's bantam bin. I have become hooked on those feather footed Banties. I am just wondering what breed she could be. She is a cute red/white chick. The foot feathers are white. The picture doesn't show it, but she has a single comb. Any guesses?

 

[Chicken Girl1]

Maybe a Brahma.

 

[misfitmorgan]

No she is a bantam and not the right color for any brahma chick.

If you call TSC and find out what hatchery suuplied them for your store...it will have a much much smaller list of chick breeds it could be.

Such as michigan..the only feather footed bantam chicks they got were silkie, d'uccle, and cochin....it varies by hatchery and state though.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Might be a Partridge Cochin Bantam.

 

[BantamLover21]

Might be a Partridge Cochin, or maybe a Red Cochin.

 

[wornoutmomto3]

No she is a bantam and not the right color for any brahma chick.

If you call TSC and find out what hatchery suuplied them for your store...it will have a much much smaller list of chick breeds it could be.

Such as michigan..the only feather footed bantam chicks they got were silkie, d'uccle, and cochin....it varies by hatchery and state though.

The TSC I got this chick from has been getting mostly Cochin bantams but there have been a few non-feather footed banties mixed in she was in one of those mixes. I have asked which hatchery sends them chicks and all I get is

. Last time I asked, I was told Corporate orders their chicks.

Might be a Partridge Cochin, or maybe a Red Cochin.

I was thinking Red Cochin, but isn't there a lot of white for a red chicken?

 

[wornoutmomto3]

What about this one?

This is another TSC bantam chick. I was thinking buff cochin until the black started showing up in the feathers. The picture is not the best. The poor chick is in that awkward phase.

 

[seachainanmadra]

I was thinking Red Cochin, but isn't there a lot of white for a red chicken?

I'm actually thinking she has too much pattern to be a red, so I would guess partridge. Here are a few photos of my red Cochin bantam from last year. She started out as a a mostly solid chick, light red (almost like a buff chick with a red glaze), where yours seems to be a darker red or brown. Mine had no chipmunk stripes at all. In the second photo, she's in the foreground, and I think around 2 weeks old. She had no discernible pattern and no black other than a few flecks here and there. At a year old, she's solid red and much darker than she was as a chick.