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You're probably right. I was mystified! :)

x2 here on BYC means "I agree." I don't get the "hurrumph! Hurrumph!" posted by subhanalah , that's not something I've ever encountered before and I wouldn't know if it was good or bad, either! Here is a list of abbreviations commonly found on BYC. Of course, "DQ" and "x2" aren't on...

Sorry, disqualification.

This happens a lot when people cross an EE with another EE. If the original parents are heterozygous for the blue egg gene, then 25% of the offspring won't receive the blue egg gene.

Just a correction: An Easter Egger is a bird that carries the blue egg gene but does not conform to any breed standard. They could have Ameraucana in their lineage, they could have Araucana in their lineage, they could have Legbar in them, they could be purebred Ameraucana that don't meet the...

Ameraucanas MUST have slate legs and be one of the eight standard colors. That's one of the easiest ways to look at a bird and almost immediately tell the difference between (most) EEs and Ams. In fact, if you mate two Ams together and get the wrong color, it's not an Am even though it has Am...

No, some breeds of chickens like some color varieties of Modern Game chickens have willow legs as well. Willow legs are common in Easter Eggers, but are a DQ for any bird being an Ameraucana, no matter what the rest of the bird looks like. The presence of willow legs is a really easy, quick...

Agreed. It's a Red Sex Link of some sort. Red Star, Golden Buff, Golden Comet, ISA Brown are all trade names of Red Sex Links. #8 is an Easter Egger, not an Ameraucana. That leads me to believe that the other puffy cheeked hens are EEs, too. It's possible to have EEs that look extremely...