Interesting feathering

[Chcknlvr123]

I have an almost 4 week old mystery chick that hatched from a reddish brown egg with beautiful speckles. Initially I was thinking welsummer. He/she had a rough hatch, pipped early then over 24 hours later I realized there was a problem with the humidity because I saw bubbles, which interestingly enough the other 6 in the hatch had no problems, so I ended up assisting and ran into all kinds of troubles. I don’t usually assist in hatches, but I felt like his/her life was on the line if I didn’t. He/she was incredibly tiny and still had some unabsorbed yolk left. I wasn’t able to separate from the rest so she ran around the incubator with the unabsorbed yolk. It’s a fighter for sure!!

Now 4 weeks later I’m still mystified as to what breed he/she is and what sex. I do know that slow feathering can be an indication of a roo, but I wonder if the slow feathering could also be because of the problems with the hatch(small size and premature appearing)

As of now her comb appears to look like a pullet, but her lack of feathers on her backside has me wondering. The ends of her/his feathers are heart shaped which also has me stumped.

Has anyone seen this kind of feathering before or had experience with premature chicks?

 

[ve]

Looks girlish for now. Not Wellsummer - too dark. Marans can have speckled brown eggs. Are the legs feathered?

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

Girl.

 

[Chcknlvr123]

Looks girlish for now. Not Wellsummer - too dark. Marans can have speckled brown eggs. Are the legs feathered?

No, not marans. She is clean legged.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Her breed could be basically anything. Where did you get the eggs? She does look like a pullet, and could just be developing her tail feathers later than normal. I'm confident she'll catch up to the others soon.

 

[GlicksChicks]

No, not marans. She is clean legged.

I have Black Copper Marans that are clean-legged. Majority of my BCM are clean-legged. They can have feathers, but they also can not have feathers.