Thank you so much for explaining about the looks of the birds. I understand the basics of BBS but the Wheaten on top of that confused me a bit. Other than the beard, both hens are identical in body coloring. Looks like my plans for this year are a wash! You live, make mistakes, and learn from...
The clean faced hen is definitely not purebred. And for all types of wheaten, the hens are pretty much the same color, with the exception of the primary wing feathers and the tail feathers. That's were they have black, blue, or splash 'patterning'. Otherwise, they are all the same coloring over...
The rooster is Blue Wheaten. The hens are not any variety of Wheaten; regular, blue, or splash. Wheaten hens have cream colored neck and chests, and golden/wheaten colored bodies. The only way to tell which variety of wheaten a hen is, is to look at her primary wing feathers and her tail.
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Both are cockerels, for sure. They are not Splash Wheaten crosses. All chicks from a Splash Wheaten would have a 'blue' gene. Also, a pure Ameraucana would not produce any clean-faced chicks.