5 week old. Possible Americauna?

[sourland]

I only correct spelling on this breed in particular simply due to how often it's done by hatcheries either due to a lack of knowledge or ethics. Otherwise I wouldn't bother

Thanks! My understanding is that “Americauna” is a synonym with Easter Eggers, just looks similar to “Ameraucana”

I tend to agree with @cstephens1987 that it comes closer to a lack of ethics.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Agreed... Hatcheries get away with selling easter eggers as Ameraucana, because that's what people unknowingly read when they see Americana. They think they're getting a pure bred bird, when they're not.

 

[Ameriwhatta]

Easter egger, and a profile shot would help with gender ID. If those are red patches on the wing coverlets, it may be a cockerel.

Here is a full body profile pic.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Here is a full body profile pic.

have to keep an eye on that one. The rust coming in on the wing bars is suspicious. Revisit in a couple weeks... but that may be a cockerel.

 

[Ameriwhatta]

Here is another chick from the same carton.

 

[Ameriwhatta]

have to keep an eye on that one. The rust coming in on the wing bars is suspicious. Revisit in a couple weeks... but that may be a cockerel.

I will! I’ll post updates to help those in the future.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Here is another chick from the same carton.

That ones a cockerel. Note the reddened comb and the rusty coloring on the wings. Those two together leave no doubts.

 

[cstephens1987]

Thanks! My understanding is that “Americauna” is a synonym with Easter Eggers, just looks similar to “Ameraucana”

Somewhat. Americana, Americauna, Ameracauna, and other various misspellings of Ameraucana are usually used to sell Easter Eggers, which in these cases are primarily being derived from some type of Ameraucana base stock to have gotten their blue egg gene.

Easter Egger however is more of a blanket term covering any chicken that came from at least one parent with at least one copy of the blue egg gene. The blue egg traces back to (at least) the Chilean Collonca chicken. This chicken was/is similar in appearance to the modern day US standard Araucana. When people began marketing and selling these chickens around the world they were also crossbreeding them often times with the native Quetro chicken which laid brown eggs and contributed some other features to the modern day birds we know. Because of this the birds that were being sold abroad were somewhat more like the modern day Easter eggers in that they may or may not lay various colors of eggs due to the poor breeding habits if those who were selling the mutts. Later the Araucana breed was standardized out of this stock and still later than that the Ameraucana breed was standardized from similar stock in an effort to retain the blue egg but remove the lethal tufting gene.

 

[Ameriwhatta]

Here is an updated image The dark one is getting some pretty shiny tail feathers, and they are both getting glossy red at the shoulders.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Here is an updated image The dark one is getting some pretty shiny tail feathers, and they are both getting glossy red at the shoulders. View attachment 1919720

The sheen on the tail feathers doesn't indicate gender. Black on any feather of any species of any gender will sheen.
However, the rust wing bars is very indicative of cockerels.