Ameraucana question...

Yep, Easter Eggers. You'll get some gray looking chicks now and then when you breed your roo to any of your hens, since he carries the blue gene. (some of them will grow up with blue coloration just like both he and the hen have) - He and the EE hen will produce chicks that look just like them as well as ones with no gray/blue but instead are darker with black, and some that are lighter with splash coloration as well as that pale creamy brown you see on the hen.

If you're curious, your EE hen's closest coloration label would be considered blue wheaten, not silver, however she's actually not a blue wheaten either, she just has genes similar to one to make he look similar. I'm betting she's a BBR/duckwing with the columbian gene as well as of course the blue gene. That much blue in her neck has me thinking there's little to no wheaten in her genes at all, and definitely some columbian. The rooster on the other than is definitely not a brown red. Brown reds are fully jet black with red in the neck, back, and shoulders, that's all No other colors. Your boy is an unrecognized color of blue golden duckwing with possibly a columbian gene, I can't fully tell from this angle of photo. He'll throw some interestingly colorful chicks for you.
 
Both of your birds are Easter Eggers. All of the resulting chicks will be Easter Eggers, that can really lay almost any color of egg.
 
Yours in particular though will give brown or green laying offspring except with the Leghorn, they'll give light green or light blue. EE x EE will give blue or green, the pea combs on both parents don't seem big enough that there's heavy brown genetics back there, but who knows. I'm still betting on blue or green laying offspring though.
 

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