Ameraucana’s 12 weeks Cockerels or Pullets?

[Cecex3]

Help please! Are my ameraucana’s cockerel or pullet?

 

[nuthatched]

That's awful pink to be hens, I think cockerel

 

[FuzzyCritters]

Both cockerels. They are also Easter Eggers, not Ameraucanas.

 

[Cecex3]

Both cockerels. They are also Easter Eggers, not Ameraucanas.

I bought as listed as ameraucana! Wow thank you for that insight! How do you know they are EE and not Ameraucanas??

 

[Cecex3]

That's awful pink to be hens, I think cockerel

Thank you!

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

They look like cockerels.

 

[nuthatched]

I bought as listed as ameraucana! Wow thank you for that insight! How do you know they are EE and not Ameraucanas??

Unless you paid $20 each for them, they're easter eggers. A lot of hatcheries and breeders call easter eggers Ameracaunas (or Americaunas) when they aren't, Real Amerecaunas have slate (gray) legs and have solid colors. (buff, white, blue or wheaten etc )

 

[NatJ]

I bought as listed as ameraucana! Wow thank you for that insight! How do you know they are EE and not Ameraucanas??

Ameraucanas come in certain specific colors, and your chickens are not those colors.

Also, it is very common for stores and hatcheries to label them as "Ameraucanas" even when they aren't really.

Unless you want to enter them in a show, or breed Ameraucanas to sell to other people, it won't really matter. Easter Eggers are pretty to look at, and the females are usually good layers of blue or green eggs, although occasionally you find one that lays brown eggs instead.

 

[Cecex3]

They look like cockerels.

Thank you

 

[Cecex3]

Ameraucanas come in certain specific colors, and your chickens are not those colors.

Also, it is very common for stores and hatcheries to label them as "Ameraucanas" even when they aren't really.

Unless you want to enter them in a show, or breed Ameraucanas to sell to other people, it won't really matter. Easter Eggers are pretty to look at, and the females are usually good layers of blue or green eggs, although occasionally you find one that lays brown eggs instead.

Thank you so much for explaining!