What kind of chicken is this?

[frustratedearthmother]

Some time ago I bid on Silkie eggs from Ebay. I won the bid - lucky me! ONE out of 6 eggs hatched and this is what I got. Obviously NOT a silkie - anybody have ideas what it is? I would have sworn it was a little roo - but I'm finding tiny little eggs in the barn and I don't have any other pullets that would lay a tiny egg like this. I really haven't had much experience with bantams so any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[Mini Horses]

OK -- you may have weird chickens BUT --

Your Pigs & goats are doing well!! 2 outa 3 ain't bad!

 

[baymule]

Obviously that is a gen-yoo-wine Red Flapper Kerfluffle!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Looks like a cross between something and something else…

By golly I think we've got it figured out! It's now officially a:

RedKerMuttleFlapper! New breed, yay!

Oh - and it crowed this morning, lol! So, it's obviously not the source of the tiny little eggs I'm finding in the barn. However, I figured that out too....remember the reject meaties...the ones that look more like a leghorn than a meat bird? Saw one of them there birds on a nest and low and behold a tiny egg came out of it, lol. These are good sized birds (but not meatie sized) more like the size of a big Orpington and laying these tiny gumball sized eggs - they should be ashamed! Whatever they got in the gene deparment - they got screwed, lol. They didn't get meatie genes and they didn't get egg genes. And, their egg is brown...I woulda thunk they'da layed a white egg...don't know why...but that's what I woulda thunk....smh.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

You've got some chicken genetics issues going on down there, lol!

Yes ma'am - I do. I absolutely do, lol.

 

[Chic Rustler]

Looks like maran crossed with red sex link.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Huh, I haven't the slightest idea. It's definitely not a silkie though, lol

 

[NH Homesteader]

Hmm @sumi we need chicken help! Lol I am not a chicken expert, and I particularly don't know about bantams!

 

[sumi]

Looks like a cross between something and something else… It's hard to tell from the pic, sorry! Doesn't look like any pure breed I can think of right now. The feathered legs could come from a Brahma, Sultan, or Cochin and the colouring etc made me think OEG as well.

 

[Mini Horses]

I believe it's a MUTT. Cute little thing.