What is this reddish/white chick?

[TerryBowleg]

I got her from the “choice brown egg layer” bin at Rural King 2 weeks ago. Breed wasn’t marked. She started off as all red (lighter red than RIR chicks) and now her wings are white. Here is a picture of the chick now, when I first got her, and the list on Rural King’s website of the possible breeds in their “choice brown egg layer” category. I’m guessing she’s just a production red. I have a Golden Comets, Rhode Island Reds, and Buff Orpingtons and this chick doesn’t look like any of them.

 

[NatJ]

I’m guessing she’s just a production red or cinnamon queen (is there even a difference? lol) I have a golden comet chick and the GC’s colors started a lot lighter so I don’t think it’s that.

She's some kind of Red Sexlink. They get sold with many names-- Golden Comet, ISA Brown, Red Star, Gold Sexlink, and many others. (I see at least two of those on the list you posted.) The females are gold/red/brown shades, with white tails and white in the wing feathers and sometimes white in other places as well.

A Production Red is colored much like a Rhode Island Red or a New Hampshire: black tail, black in the big wing feathers, lots of red elsewhere. So the white in her wings is completely wrong for a Production Red.

Cinnamon Queens are a cross of Rhode Island Red with Silver Laced Wyandotte. The females grow up out red/brown with black in various places. The white in the wings of your chick is wrong for a Cinnamon Queen.

Rural King has pages on each of those kinds, with photos of both chicks and adults:
Golden Comet: https://www.ruralking.com/catalog/product/view/id/145702
ISA Brown: https://www.ruralking.com/catalog/product/view/id/145717
Production Red: https://www.ruralking.com/catalog/product/view/id/145741
Cinnamon Queen: https://www.ruralking.com/catalog/product/view/id/145662

On young chicks the wing feathers are very obvious. On adult chickens, you don't see those feathers when they fold their wings. But it's very common for the color of the long flight feathers in the wings to match the color of the tail feathers, which is handy when you're looking at the early feathers of a chick and comparing with photos of adults.

 

[TerryBowleg]

She's some kind of Red Sexlink. They get sold with many names-- Golden Comet, ISA Brown, Red Star, Gold Sexlink, and many others. (I see at least two of those on the list you posted.) The females are gold/red/brown shades, with white tails and white in the wing feathers and sometimes white in other places as well.

A Production Red is colored much like a Rhode Island Red or a New Hampshire: black tail, black in the big wing feathers, lots of red elsewhere. So the white in her wings is completely wrong for a Production Red.

Cinnamon Queens are a cross of Rhode Island Red with Silver Laced Wyandotte. The females grow up out red/brown with black in various places. The white in the wings of your chick is wrong for a Cinnamon Queen.

Rural King has pages on each of those kinds, with photos of both chicks and adults:
Golden Comet: https://www.ruralking.com/catalog/product/view/id/145702
ISA Brown: https://www.ruralking.com/catalog/product/view/id/145717
Production Red: https://www.ruralking.com/catalog/product/view/id/145741
Cinnamon Queen: https://www.ruralking.com/catalog/product/view/id/145662

On young chicks the wing feathers are very obvious. On adult chickens, you don't see those feathers when they fold their wings. But it's very common for the color of the long flight feathers in the wings to match the color of the tail feathers, which is handy when you're looking at the early feathers of a chick and comparing with photos of adults.

Thanks! I either have all of the breeds you linked or have seem then in person at the store…none really look like my chick. I’m sure there are some variations within the breeds or hybrid breeds so not each chick looks the same every time. I have not seen red star and some of the pics on Google sort of look close. I agree definitely a red sex link of some sort.

 

[NatJ]

Thanks! I either have all of the breeds you linked or have seem then in person at the store…none really look like my chick. I’m sure there are some variations within the breeds or hybrid breeds so not each chick looks the same every time. I have not seen red star and some of the pics on Google sort of look close. I agree definitely a red sex link of some sort.

I think the adult color will be easier to recognize than the chick color. But with all that white in the wings, you can definitely rule out any kind that shows a black tail at maturity.

Some of the red sexlink types are pretty variable in how much white they have, and what shade of red/gold they have. I've given up on distinguishing kinds of red sexlinks from each other, as chicks or as adults, because there is way too much overlap between them, and some really are the same as each other but sold with another name.