Ameracauna gender and color question

[ND Sue]

I got some straight run chicks from a breeder and I can't remember if he said they were lavender or blue.
Can you tell me which this looks like? Also does it look like a pullet or cockerel?

 

[pips&peeps]

blue cockerel

 

[AZBootsie]

Must be a blue, because the color on my lavs is solid and much paler. I am no expert, but looks like a beautiful boy to me. I love the light and dark shading. Stunning bird!!

 

[mama24]

He's gorgeous! I trust what Jean says after reading her sig.

 

[Happy Chooks]

pips&peeps :

blue cockerel

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[Pele]

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous blue boy!!

 

[Jferlisi]

pips&peeps :

blue cockerel

Take it from the master. Jean knowns everything about them.

 

[ND Sue]

Thank you all so much for your input and compliments! I don't know anything about this breed but wanted some blue eggs.
I had my suspicion that he was a rooster! So far, he doesn't crow and leaves the girls alone, so I wasn't positive though.

Can I bother you all for one more critique? This one I KNOW is a rooster! He's obnoxious and chases the hens relentlessly and is crowing. He's a brother or hatchmate of the guy above.

I am curious about the red feathers on his back... what causes that? I assume it's a fault in the color? Or could someone have "jumped the fence" at the breeders?

 

[pips&peeps]

I think you've got some easter eggers.

 

[wolftracks]

I love my blue AMs and yeah I

to Jean. I thought I had a pullet for 7 months. I got lots of different opinions and now I just wait for Jean to answer if I can't do it myself. LOL She's the Queen!

They can be tricky sometimes.

Your little cockerel at the bottom is concidered an EE. Still pretty though.