As you have found, white can hatch just about any color depending on whether they are recessive white or dominant white. The best whites are based on silver which your light grey ones most likely are.Yes I have white araucana ! bantams and they have tails, their legs a blue gray in color and they are my best layers, nice blue and some light green, I bought eggs on ebay and hatched them out. when they hatched I thought this can not be, not everyone was white, some were light gray, yellow color. emailed the seller and she said check wing feathers, so I did...yep the wing tips were all white, and in 2 weeks I could not tell who was who, they were all white, they are my best layers, not real little egg's either
However as others have pointed out, it seems you did not in fact purchase Araucana as Araucana are a rumpless breed. Araucana are also a yellow skinned breed which means their legs can only ever be 1 of 3 colors - yellow, willow, or black with yellow bottoms of the feet.
Every once in a while a tailed araucana will pop up as I even get them here and I have been breeding rumpless birds only for the past 7 years. However it is highly unlikely that you would hatch only tailed birds. Do your birds have beards and muffs? If so this would indicate to me that they are in fact either Ameraucana or Easter Eggers.
You are free to look at my website to see pictures of Araucana. www.cashsblueeggs.com
Lanae
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