Ameraucana (?) Breed question and Pullet or Roo?

JesWith3

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I have two Ameraucanas in my flock (I THINK). The topic still confuses me, because I've learned that just because a chicken has parents that are both Ameraucanas, if they don't meet a certain color requirement, they might not TECHNICALLY be Ameraucanas, but instead be simply classified as an Easter Egger. With that in mind, I have a few questions:
-Is my Ameraucana roo, Barnaby, (Black with splashes of red and cream, bright red triple row pea comb and no waddles) in fact an Ameraucana or just an Easter Egger?
-What is Barnaby's color pattern called? Is there one??
-Same question for my white Ameraucana with black specks.
They are hatchmates with the same parents (parents are not my birds). Both hatched from blue Ameraucana (not Americana/Easter Egger) eggs.
-Is my white Ameraucana with black specks in fact a pullet as I am assuming she is? Single pale pea comb (she has not come into lay, yet (if she is a she), though her brother IS sexually mature and fertilizing eggs now), rounded tail feathers with no signs of sickle feather or pointed saddle feathers. I could not get a good pic of that.
Thank you for any input.
P.S. Please excuse the second picture, my son squeezed a piece of the flock's suet treat through the bars and left quite a gross looking mess. Apologies.
 

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Yes, both Easter Eggers. The boy would be a black with leakage, IMO. The pullet, not sure. She seems to have a single comb
So weird that a bird can come from purebred Ameraucanas and NOT be an Ameraucana lol I don't know that it'll ever make sense to me. I do not believe the seller was being deceitful, but I believe it's possible she was deceived and maybe believed what she has are pure Ameraucana ((shrug)) Oh well, I love them nonetheless. I just hope Barnaby carries two copies of the blue gene. Thank you for your input. Also, yes, Kisma definitely has a single row pea comb. She (?) and her brother Barnaby were hatched on the same day, but he is very much sexually mature, but she is not yet and she is also a smaller bird (I helped her from the shell and she is a bit of a runt that took a little more TLC, but is thriving now).
 
Pullet also appears to have yellow shanks.
I wondered about that, too. She has the slightest bit of a "painting" of inky grey on the very tops that is hard to see unless you're looking. She's the weirdest one of the 8 I hatched. The only one with no beard and very little muffs by her earlobes. I did help this one hatch and she struggled to thrive for a while, but I doubt that had much to do with all of these things. I think the seller THOUGHT she was selling me "Pure Ameraucana" eggs, but was really selling "Americana" ((shrug))
 
She 100% does. I do know that. It's a single row where her brother's is triple. A very low, pale, single row pea comb,

Not sure what you mean by that? Pea combs have three rows, a single row would be a single comb, if I'm understanding this correctly. Sorry you didn't get what you were after :hugs
 

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