Americaunas?

[Folly's place]

You will love your Easter Eggers!
Mary

 

[bantambliss]

if they are not bantams, you can wing sex them... girls will have a distinct shorter row above the long feathers. I would watch a vid on it!

 

[Kristinadukhin]

if they are not bantams, you can wing sex them... girls will have a distinct shorter row above the long feathers. I would watch a vid on it!

Oh thank you! I’ll do that!

 

[Folly's place]

You can only wing sex chicks that were bred to express that trait, otherwise it's random.
Mary

 

[Frazzemrat1]

unless purpose bred for it, wing sexing is only 50% accurate.

 

[bantambliss]

Ok we’ll it will at least give you a general idea...

 

[Folly's place]

That's right, each chick will either be a cockerel or a pullet. Usually.
Mary

 

[NatJ]

Ok we’ll it will at least give you a general idea...

So will flipping a coin, or rolling dice.

There are some breeds in which ALL chicks feather out as "female" and other breeds where ALL chicks feather out as "male" and some where it's completely random.

The ONLY time you can sex a chick by wing feathers is if someone carefully selected the parents--mother must have the "male" feathering, father must have the "female" feathering for it to work right. (And if you tried to sex those parents by their feathering, you would have them exactly backwards!)

Edit: just to be clear, by "male" or "female" feathers, I am ONLY talking about the way baby chicks grow the feathers in their wings. I am not talking about the hackle and saddle feathers that adult chickens grow that are sex-specific. (Someone just looked over my shoulder at home and questioned what I was saying...)

 

[purrson]

Ameraucanas are a pure breed. TSC sells "Americanas" If you paid less than 10 bucks a chick, then it's an Easter Egger, but so what? they lay beautiful colored eggs too.

is this one an ameraucana?
It has grey legs.
here eggs are light brown/almost white.

 

[featherhead007]

She's some type of mix breed Ameraucana, and ? Her comb is bigger, and egg color says EE.
My opinion, She's beautiful.