7 week Aussie aracauna crosses with what? Hopefully pullets...?

[MixedBreed]

Hi, I recently got these two new chickens and they love stretching their necks out when resting. I'm still quite new to chickens, but I did my best trying to choose pullets (and not going with the large red combed ones the guy was telling me were hens because he was newer than I - I knew they were roosters). But anyway, we chose these two. Did we choose correctly - pullets?
We are also wondering as to the parents. So far we are leaning towards the beige one being a possible full or 3/4 araucana (Australian tailed araucana). She has no wattle so far. Could she be? I don't know much about patterning of the araucanas here and she has some white flecks through the beige in places atm plus grey as the photos show. The stock these two were from was a big mix including araucanas, ee, silkies, australorps, plymouth rocks, wyandottes, barnvelder, Belgian d'uccle, and more... If not full araucana, then what? Her patterning is kind of misty - faint dotty...a soft effect.
We are not sure about the dark brown's parents. Guess: a bit of ee because some fluff at cheeks. But her pattern - wow - I love it. I'm guessing plymouth rock crossed with something brown and an ee somewhere...that's my best guess so far.

 

[nuthatched]

I'm not sure on the colors but I think the dark one might be a cockerel.

 

[MixedBreed]

I'm not sure on the colors but I think the dark one might be a cockerel.

We were wondering about her too. We don't know. We still think she's a girl...Her posture is very girly and scared of everything except flies- she chases them. It's hard to tell in the photos, but her comb has cream tips at the points and lighter than the pink skin. But it's all really subtle...

 

[AusHen]

Both look like pullets but keep an eye on the darker one.
The lighter isn't half or 3/4 Araucana, I would say 1/4 at best. From the possible parents we can rule out any Araucana since they lack any sign of a crest and pea combs which should be present in an F1 cross of a pure Araucana. Although bearded we can rule out Silkie and d'Uccle since your birds are clean legged, which would leave the "EE". "Easter eggers" are generally cross breeds with a bit of Araucana in them here which could produce bearded and non bearded offspring without crests and with single combs.

 

[nuthatched]

We were wondering about her too. We don't know. We still think she's a girl...Her posture is very girly and scared of everything except flies- she chases them. It's hard to tell in the photos, but her comb has cream tips at the points and lighter than the pink skin. But it's all really subtle...

Behavior and posture aren't good ways of indicating gender, mottled red is typically a male only color but the partridge could come in and change that

 

[MixedBreed]

Both look like pullets but keep an eye on the darker one.
The lighter isn't half or 3/4 Araucana, I would say 1/4 at best. From the possible parents we can rule out any Araucana since they lack any sign of a crest and pea combs which should be present in an F1 cross of a pure Araucana. Although bearded we can rule out Silkie and d'Uccle since your birds are clean legged, which would leave the "EE". "Easter eggers" are generally cross breeds with a bit of Araucana in them here which could produce bearded and non bearded offspring without crests and with single combs.

Okay thank you, that's good to know- good info. Now we think we have one araucana cross (another bird) which has what you said. But okay, so the beige is a mix of may be lots...

 

[MixedBreed]

Behavior and posture aren't good ways of indicating gender, mottled red is typically a male only color but the partridge could come in and change that

Okay thank you.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Looks like you have two pullets. The first is an Easter egger cross and the second is a barnevelder cross.

 

[MixedBreed]

Looks like you have two pullets. The first is an Easter egger cross and the second is a barnevelder cross.

Okay, yes...We're now wondering if she might be a golden pencilled hamburg with some barnevelder and speckled sussex (to account for the white face and white dots at tips in places, black v on some feathers, the orange hackle, the dark grey legs and grey fluff, she looks kind of solid rounder too compared to the lean uppy stance of the ee cross). Anyway, she's a pretty mix chicken. Thank you for that. Merry Christmas!

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Okay, yes...We're now wondering if she might be a golden pencilled hamburg with some barnevelder and speckled sussex (to account for the white face and white dots at tips in places, black v on some feathers, the orange hackle, the dark grey legs and grey fluff, she looks kind of solid rounder too compared to the lean uppy stance of the ee cross). Anyway, she's a pretty mix chicken. Thank you for that. Merry Christmas!

All those white tips and pencilled feathers will molt out! Mottling (which Speckled Sussex are) also requires two copies so would need two parents exhibiting or carrying it. Hamburgs have rose combs so a first generation cross would likely have a rose comb since they're dominant. The white face is chick down that once shed, will turn dark. I think she may be a second generation mix. I agree that I'm seeing Barnevelder in her but she's mixed with something else that's giving her slate legs. Regardless, those pencilled and mottled feathers you're seeing are baby feathers. They're going to molt out! I've been tricked by them before. I had an extra English Orpington thrown in my order and I saw the pencilled feathers and assumed she was partridge. She grew up, lost all of those feathers and wound up being red