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I'm done responding to this thread, until it gets any bigger. When that happens, I'll let you all know.

From your article, I see it says 2-3 weeks on page 4. I didn't see anything on page 3

https://rep.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/rep/155/6/REP-17-0728.xml None of the chickens hatched

I saw this. I'm not claiming I know what it is. It's not old enough to show all of its characteristics. I just know 91 days is too many for incubation. Nesting for 21, say sat for 10, longest possible fertility with sperm of 21 days, still leaves a minimum of 52 days without any access to a...

Here is a source: https://www.audubon.org/news/the-amazing-world-hybrid-birds#:~:text=Different%20species%20of%20pheasants%20have,the%20same%20family%2C%20Phasianidae).

I believe quail and pheasants can both mix with chickens. There are several fowl that can physically and successfully cross. Phasianidae, a bird family (order Galliformes), includes among its members the jungle fowl (from which the domestic chicken is descended), partridge, peacock, pheasant...

I'd prefer her to be just a chicken.

I was just being pithy with that particular comment. The reality is, it's a mystery until it's older to show more traits, but it's pretty much positive that it couldn't be a rooster.

Also, her proportions just seem a bit off to me. Like her body is a bit too small, head too big, and chest shape... just different. She seems perfectly healthy, just different from what our chicks usually look. It's subtle, but even before I decided it couldn't possibly be from a rooster, I...

The roosters left 91 days ago, chicks hatch around 20-21.

My hen just showed up with a chick 14 weeks after our roosters were gone. Our options of father are turkey tom, quail cock, or a pheasant rooster... by the looks of the chick this far (and the fact that the tom is entirely unlikely) i'm thinking quail? It would be a wild quail or pheasant...