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Is he (assuming he's a cockerel) a Bielefelder? Before getting feathers, he was a lighter red color with a white spot on his head. I'm stumped by his breed! (From McMurray's Layers Choice chicks, about 4.5 weeks old.)

Is he (assuming he's a cockerel) a Bielefelder? Before getting feathers, he was a lighter red color with a white spot on his head. I'm stumped by his breed! (From McMurray's Layers Choice chicks)

I have more update pics! 1: Still not sure, but thinking an all white "Ameraucana" (EE) because of her legs and maybe a bit of face tufts developing 2: Unsure. McMurray has a few all black breeds that look like her. 3: Thinking maybe an Australorp. 4: No pic. She's definitely a Rhode...

Mine has lightened up quite a bit from when it first arrived. It was much more red, but as soon as feathers starting coming in with the white, definitely lightened up. So hard to say what either of ours could be! (I ordered 15 choice layer pullets, and I don’t think this was the mystery chick...

I also have a chick like this I got from McMurray and have been equally stumped. At 3 weeks, it looks like this (also attaching a pic of it the day I got it, and at about a week and a half old):

From McMurray Hatchery. I thought maybe one of their "Ameraucanas" at first (EE) because of the leg color, but the comb style is throwing me off because any I've gotten from them in the past have had small pea combs. I know it's still early, but any ideas? TIA!

UPDATE PICS: #1: Still not sure. Remains the largest chick. Much "meatier" than the others. It was a smoky color before getting feathers. Thought maybe a white rock or a white Jersey Giant, but it doesn't have the right kind of comb. Maybe just a huge white "Ameraucana" (name McMurray uses)...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/ameraucanas-easter-eggers-from-mcmurrary-plumage-color-variety.1366290/#post-22617729 One of my old posts that shows the EE's I received from the same hatchery before.

These are chicks I ordered in December that shipped directly from a hatchery that plans hatches. I've ordered from them numerous times and don't get "picked over" birds.

May I ask why you believe they're all EE's? Is it the leg color? I have four of the #6 chicks that all look identical with rose combs. #1 is quite a bit larger than the other chicks and has no patterning at all. #5 & #7 both have single combs, and the breed MM sells for their "Ameraucana" (EE's)...

Hi, all! I ordered 15 (+1 "mystery chick") of "Murray's Choice Layers" from McMurray Hatchery, and there are a few I haven't been able to positively identify. They are supposed to be pullets (except for likely the "mystery chick," which I also can't determine). I figured I'd post to see if...

This one, in particular, happened while free ranging. She was totally normal when I let them out that afternoon, and even ate some blueberries from my hands in the yard, and an hour later, I found her laying on her side in the yard (with several other chickens nearby not acting startled or out...

These are the week-old injuries as of today. They’re starting to close up, scabs are mostly gone, and the swelling over her eye is going down so it’s starting to open. Second pic is of her mostly uninjured side.

When I say cuts, I mean more of a gash. Like, not a hole, but more of an irregular shaped gash. The survivor's face was also incredibly bruised and swollen around the eye where one of the wounds was. I can update with a photo later today, though they are healing now. They have two feeders that...

It doesn't seem suspect that they all have cuts on the top of their heads and that out of 14 birds, all 4 have been the young ones? All of the attacks have been in daylight as well. The wounds aren't really puncture shaped, either. They're individual, centimeter-length cuts (which I was able to...