6 Baby Chickens arrived today~ - Page 2

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Originally Posted by cjwaldon 

I think you lost your Easter Egger.  I don't see any puffy cheeks.

Humm, it was so hard to decide which breed we lost but it was much lighter yellow and looked much more like all of the pictures of the white leghorn or BO. Here are a few pics of the one I think is the EE (the yellow one).All of the darker ones I know which breed they are so those aren't in question. :) Opinions?

When I got what turned out to be an EE, I was told that it was a white orpington.  It didn't have the puffy cheeks when young but she does now.  I think waiting and seeing is part of the fun.  :)

That little cutie looks more like an orpington or leghorn to me.  All of the E.E's  we've had, have had a chimpmunk pattern( you may be able to see from the pic I posted yesterday), that's the easiest way to tell, as the puffy cheeks don't show until they're much older. 

After a lot of searching pictures of chicks, we have deduced that the little yellow ones we have are probably the White Leghorn and the Buff Orpington and that the Easter Egger must have been the one we lost. Of course, we won't know for sure for a few more weeks. :)

So today we went out and got two more Araucana chicks to add to the clan. Looking forward to some fun blue eggs! They both have the chipmunk coloring , one light, one darker. They are such sweet  little things, just joined in with the others as though they had been there all along. And happy to report that the 6 others are doing great as well!

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Those look just like my E.E's! :)   I wonder how much difference there is between the E.E and Araucana?  Did you get them from a breeder?   I was told that only breeders sell true Araucanas, so if you got them from a feed store they may lay a different color egg(green, pink, white, and possibly still blue).  The breeder we got our E.E's from last year said that they'll lay the same color egg that they were hatched from,  I thought that was pretty cool.    :)

Glad he's doing okay :)

They are from a feed store so I am sure they are just EEs even though they call them Araucanas. I really wanted to get some "true" Araucanas from a breeder just an hour away from us that does the rumpless Araucanas in all sorts of cool colors but she doesn't know how to sex them so I would be taking a chance on getting a rooster. Not a risk I was willing to take so I opted for these little cuties.  I am still bewildered by the chick we lost...it was really light yellow orangeish feet and beak and didn't have any chipmunk coloring.  Oh well, it will be fun to see what we end up with I guess! :)

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Originally Posted by featheredroots 

Those look just like my E.E's! :)   I wonder how much difference there is between the E.E and Araucana?  Did you get them from a breeder?   I was told that only breeders sell true Araucanas, so if you got them from a feed store they may lay a different color egg(green, pink, white, and possibly still blue).  The breeder we got our E.E's from last year said that they'll lay the same color egg that they were hatched from,  I thought that was pretty cool.    :)

Thanks!