any idea what breed my new girls are?

[PeachygirlGA]

Here's a couple better closeups of Ethel.

 

[dretd]

Wow she's gorgeous! She really looks like the Bantam Silver hen photo on the Ameraucana website :http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook_files/silverf.JPG

Maybe you should try posting on the Ameraucana thread on BYC and see what breeders think.

 

[PeachygirlGA]

Wow, she does look like that picture!

 

[fuzziecreatures]

Ethel looks like our Ladyhawke! She's a pullet

 

[rirbrahma]

It looks like she has green legs. Does she?
Edit: In the first page pic she has green legs. Sorry, she's an easter egger.

 

[laylady]

I second the Bantam Silver, she is vey pretty!

 

[BlueCamas]

Peeka 52---I guess that I have been wrong before on identification of birds especially with respect to the leg color as colors can appear off either in the photo itself, in my monitor or the shadowing and lighting. So I hate to label a chicken a mutt if it is indeed a purebred based off one picture.

On a further note, it would be helpful if you could provide me information regarding breed standard for leg color in true Ameraucanas. As I said I am not an expert and would like to learn more information from those that are! The only info I could find on the breed standard did not mention leg color, so could you help me out and let me know what the standard is for all of the 8 different colors as I presume they may vary depending on color? www.ameraucana.org/standard.html

All Ameraucanas have slate legs. Green legs indicate Easter Egger. Green legs and slate legs should not be easily confused with one another, even with different lighting. Even as chicks, they start out totally different. Chickens with green legs, start out with green legs. Ameraucanas (who slate legs) start out with pink legs I believe. Now I'm no expert, but that's just my two cents

 

[sdsmowen]

They are both beautiful birds I love the colors on Ethel such a striking pattern to her

 

[Hangtown Farms]

very pretty easter egger...
nothing wrong with that. I have 2 of them and love them. along with my true ameraucana and olive eggers they are the sweetest.

 

[dretd]

All Ameraucanas have slate legs. Green legs indicate Easter Egger. Green legs and slate legs should not be easily confused with one another, even with different lighting. Even as chicks, they start out totally different. Chickens with green legs, start out with green legs. Ameraucanas (who slate legs) start out with pink legs I believe. Now I'm no expert, but that's just my two cents

Thanks for the information. Another question, is the leg color a disqualification? I haven't shown but am keenly interested in chickens and breed development. I get very confused about chicken showing and what is considered purebred vs mutt.

The only parallel I have is in dogs. A dog may have registered parents but have a white mark that makes the dog non show quality but it is still genetically that breed of dog even if it flunks conformation. If you see it in the park you would say it is a lab or lab cross not a mutt as it is obviously not a chihuahua. With chickens (especially with EE) we call any bird that doesn't meet breed standards a mutt or an EE even if both of its parents are purebred which strikes me as, hmm, well rude in some way. If Ethel, for instance, was known to have come from a breeder of Silver Ameraucanas but she has green legs, would you still call her an EE or would you call her a non-standard Ameraucana? I get really confuzzled about this stuff and would love to hear your take on it.