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I appreciate your comment and know that a single comb would cause the chick to not be considered an Ameraucana. I know that single combed chicks really only ever come up in experimental projects with Lavender Ameraucanas, so I've been thinking a lot about what could have happened as the breeder...

An update for anyone interested--on the development of the oldest three Ameraucana chicks, the black and light blue (the first and last chicks pictured) are seeming like roos with large-ish pea combs that feel raised to the touch, larger body size and lower-pitched vocalizations, while the dark...

It doesn't have any brown feathers as far as I can tell--here is a photograph from behind of its feathering: Thank you for your input! I'll try to update this thread in a few weeks. We purchased the three older Ameraucana chicks pictured in this thread (they were the last three left of...

Thank you both for the input! That's what I was thinking but I'm so new to sexing that I'm not ready to trust my instincts just yet. Thank you for your feedback on sex; that's what I'd been leaning toward but this is my first experience trying to sex. The breeder we purchased them from has...

Yes, our town allows up to ten chickens on one acre of land or less (we have a fenced quarter acre on the woods) with no breed specifications, although sadly we are not allowed to have roos due to noise concerns so we will not be able to keep any that end up being male. Thank you for your...

We are very new to this site and to chickens in general. We purchased some straight run Ameraucanas a week ago and I've been researching potential methods of sexing young Ameraucanas and seem to have found that the only semi-reliable way at this age is by their combs. I tried taking a look at...