Ameracauna or EE?

[TheCrazyClucker]

The feather color doesn't look like any of the recognized colors of Ameraucana. To be a true Ameraucana they must be one of the recognized colors. Looks like an Easter Egger. They're better layers than Ameraucanas anyway.

 

[lemonlaw]

The eggs were a bunch of colors: light green, beige-peach, pink, light blue and a pale yellow. These chicks both hatched from a pink-ish tan egg.

Here are a few updated photos. They are now 3 weeks old! Time flies when you are in love with chickens!

The first chick is Alpha:










This is Tough Stuff (TS)











Any gender clues I should be looking for? On the edge of my seat to see if they are pullets or roos!

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

Easter Egger

 

[lemonlaw]

scratch that- they are 2 weeks old. Got ahead of myself.

 

[my sunwolf]

Yeah, 2 weeks is definitely too early to sex, especially for pea-combed breeds. 5-8 weeks is much easier.

 

[lemonlaw]

That's a LONG time for me to be holding my breath

Thanks for the input. I am so thankful for this community!

 

[goldfinches]

Yikes! Just judging by the eggs they hatched from, they're EE's if they're even those. But, if they are EE's, then I'm sure they'll be fun, I love mine.

Those legs and combs are interesting. I would guess that the seller just has a bunch of hens running around with a couple of roosters and just figures whatever they sell can be called Ameraucana because the majority of people don't know any better. Good catch on your part!

Sorry you have to wait so long to tell their sex, just call them girls until you know any different.

 

[Kev]

yeah I agree you didn't get the right eggs. Contact the seller and see what they say?

They probably will grow up more or less the color known in hobby as partridge or dark brown(look for dark brown leghorns) but with them being obvious mixes, they probably will show some deviations from the typical partridge/dark brown color as adults.

 

[makluvsanimals]

is miss petunia an an americauna or an easter egger

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

The eggs were a bunch of colors: light green, beige-peach, pink, light blue and a pale yellow. These chicks both hatched from a pink-ish tan egg.

Wow, you were really, REALLY sold the wrong eggs.

Here are some Ameraucana shipping eggs I was sent by a BYCer. It's hard to see the color b/c of the blue egg carton, but they are a greenish blue, and very similar to each other, which is what you would expect from purebred eggs, since the parents would have been bred to a standard:



And here are the resulting babies. You can't just buy only Blue Ameraucana hatching eggs. Because of the color genetics, any hatch will result in blue, black, and splash babies.



I'm giving you these photos with the express permission to send them to the seller with a photo of your chicks and give them a piece of your mind!