Who am I? Need Breed ID for mystery red pullet

[psymonetta]

This is Meg. Meg was expected to be a Buff Orpington, but has decided that she is a red chicken with a few randomly scattered white and black speckles, not a Buff Orpington. We are a bit confused, because she has white legs...and for a very long time we thought she'd just grow out of her red coloring. But now, she's not really growing up to be shaped like a Buff Orpington either. It's really obvious when she's hanging out next to our very broad, puffy, blonde Buff Orpington chick Lulu. Even her head is a different shape.

So, Meg does not know what kind of chicken she is. Do you?

 

[OldMORoo]

Looks like a RIR to me, but legs look like their yellow.

Claude

 

[psymonetta]

She was also a buff yellow chick too...not reddish at all. She didn't start turning red until her feathers came in. All the pics of RIR chicks I have seen, they are either red or brownish-red from the get go.

I agree!

 

[OldMORoo]

With a buff chick fuzz, could be a RSL/Star
Claude

 

[speckledhen]

My own Meg is a RIR/Buff Orp cross. Her legs are white due to the Orp influence and her color is flaming red with a few black stipples in her hackles that you can only see close up. Did she come from a hatchery?

My Nutmeg as a baby, then an adult:

 

[psymonetta]

Yes, she came from Ideal. They are total look-alikes!

That's so funny that we picked the same name for similar chickens.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, except for the white legs, she could be a production red (reddish as chicks) or a New Hampshire (they are yellow as chicks). The white legs are what's throwing me. If she was a NH or RIR crossed with Buff Orpington, that would explain the white legs.

 

[psymonetta]

Because they're so similar...I'm inclined to think it's more likely that a RIR roo paid and unauthorized visit to a BO hen and the result was Ms. Meg.

Your Meg is a lovely gal...so I have high hopes for mine.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

My production red started out as a buff colored chick,

then turned red when all her feathers came in,

but.... she does have yellow legs.

 

[speckledhen]

White skin is dominant, so I'd say your Meg, like mine, has a white skinned/white-legged parent. Looks like someone did make an unauthorized visit, LOL.