Free Rare Chick

Feather Footed Chick

So we’ve figured out which one of the chicks is our “free rare chick”.  Bengt noticed it first, but… one has feathered feet!  We didn’t order any breeds that could have feathered feet so it looks like this one is our little odd one.  I’ve nicknamed it “Boots” for now.  We don’t know the sex of it and farm sense tells you that a “free” chicken is going to be a rooster, but we’ll have to wait and see.

With the feathered feet and a normal number of toes we are left suspecting that the breed is either a Cochin or a Brahma.  You can see some great photos of Brahma and Cochins here.  It appears to have a different “build” than the other chicks.  It’s a bit stockier and fluffier.  It looks like it’s waddling most of the time.  It’s terribly cute and I can’t wait to see how it grows up!

We also have discovered that there was a small error in our order.  We did get 27 chicks as requested but it looks like we got one extra Cornish-X and ones less Araucana.  Oh well.  One of the “Araucana” also appears to be very light golden which I didn’t think was typical for Araucanas so we’ll see how that one grows up.  It’s clearly not another Cornish-X though.