Feather Footed Mystery Chick

[Ascholten]

What are you getting all angry about? The things a broiler, it's destined to be eaten. So it's more humane to let it grow then eat it? Think of it this way, less cleaning you have to do! Perspective Perspective Perspective

Aaron

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

I thought it would have clean legs (no feathers) if it was a broiler. Do you know what it is? Please tell us if you do.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

What are you getting all angry about? The things a broiler, it's destined to be eaten. So it's more humane to let it grow then eat it? Think of it this way, less cleaning you have to do! Perspective Perspective Perspective

Aaron

That's just it. If its a Brahma, it is NOT a Broiler. They are about the slowest growing, least feed efficient birds you can imagine. In fact, if there is a slower growing, less feed efficient bird, I can't think of it, nor find it on any common reference charts.

Also, white feathering is preferred for broilers - cleaner carcass. Again, that's not the direction this bird seems to be headed.

A better question might be, "Why the complaint, it was an extra?" except the OP doesn't seem to be complaining, but rather expressing curiosity as to breed identity.

My question to @MulberryBend is what Assortment did you buy? Generally, the "extra" chick in a shipping box is at least similar to what's in the rest of the box, so if you get the BBQ Assortment of various Cornish, maybe you get a leghorn as well, but more likely you get another cornish - and if you get the frypan special of male leghorns, your extra is probably another male leghorn variety, but might be a cornish variety. And if he got a feather footed assortment, chances are the extra would have feathered feet... That's just the way the Hatcheries do business, though of course mistakes are made.

and MM doesn't stock a ton of feathered breeds. (Light, buff, dark) Brahma, (Black, Blue, Buff, White, SL) Cochin, (white, copper, partridge) Faverolle, (Black, White) Langshans and Sultans as full size birds.

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

Make a tasty chicken nugget right now and you won't have to worry about what it is!

Aaron

And have you ever heard the saying ''if you don't have anything nice to say don't say it at all"?

 

[MysteryChicken]

It might be a partridge cochin, but mine doesn’t have a chipmunk pattern at all. I imagine it’s possible different lines can produce chicks with different down patterns, but here’s my partridge cochin chick.

does it have a single or pea comb? It could be a dark brahma.

It's a Partridge Cochin. The partridge pattern Varies, it doesn't always have stripes.

 

[MysteryChicken]

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I thought it was the dark chick, was the questionable one?

Single comb, also a Cochin.

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

It's a Partridge Cochin. The partridge pattern Varies, it doesn't always have stripes.

That's what I thought the first time I saw it.

 

[HulonB]

I ordered a batch of broilers from McMurray and received an extra chick. Any ideas the breed? Feather footed with chipmunk pattern.

Thank you!
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Looks like my Brahma chicks

 

[Studabird]

Looks like a buff Brahma chick to me. Similar to the ones I raised.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I continue to have 100% confidence that I don't know, and will continue to defer to the opinions of more knowledgeable posters, such as @MysteryChicken and @Overo Mare

My unqualified opinion, based solely on having raised 6 birds from a single batch of TSC chicks, is that it appears too light to be a typical DB to me - too much white in the face.