ARE THESE ARAUCANA

[EggWalrus]

I think they are supposed to be completely rumpless, as in no tail bone even. Zero, zilch, nuffins.
But I have also read that even completely rumpless parents can occasionally have araucana offspring with tails. Araucana chicks are also hard to get to hatch and stay alive. They have a lethal gene that almost always results in death of chicks if both parents have ear tufts.
It could be that this breeder has lots of parents with tufts and had to throw some other blood into the mix just to get the chicks hatching alive.
Ain't no dang telling!

 

[Trish1974]

Araucana chicks are also hard to get to hatch and stay alive. They have a lethal gene that almost always results in death of chicks if both parents have ear tufts.

No.
There is only a 25% chance the chick will inherit both tuft genes. The chick will die in shell around day 19.
There's no increase in death of chicks post hatch than any other breed.

 

[EggWalrus]

No.
There is only a 25% chance the chick will inherit both tuft genes. The chick will die in shell around day 19.
There's no increase in death of chicks post hatch than any other breed.

I don't think that I explained it quite as elegantly as what this lady can.
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Arau/ACARumplTufted.html

 

[SimplyLivinthatFarmLife]

Whatever they are, they're very cute! Hope you can figure out what breed they are...good luck!

 

[annageckos]

EE can look like anything. They normally do have a type. Your chicks look like EE, willow legs is very common in EE.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

I hate to agree with all others, but araucana chicks shouldn't have a tailbone, let alone tail feathers. This is purely speaking from the US standard, the UK standard chicks have tails and tailbones. Any pics you looked at could have been UK standard.
That said, I agree they could be easter eggers, which are more of a type than a breed. They CAN have green legs, nor not. Can have muffs, or not. CAN have pea combs, or not.

The other thing to point out, is that there's no way that a feed store, like RK, will sell araucana. They're simply too expensive for them to source from a hatchery, let alone for a hatchery to produce. As mentioned before, the tufted gene is a lethal gene that kills a certain percentage of chicks before they even hatch. As a result, araucana are quite expensive. My previous gold duckwing single tufted cockerel went for $45. For a cockerel!

Here's my latest araucanas (which are project colors as blues aren't standard colors) and you can clearly see they don't have tails. They're 4 weeks old in this pic.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

I'm going to add...
1st, UK standard Araucana aren't sold in the US anywhere, so that's a no go.

2nd, the likelihood is that your chicks were labeled as 'Americana' which is a misnomer. Hatcheries sell easter egger chicks as 'americana' all the time. The breed their trying to pass off is 'ameraucana' which these chicks are also not. They don't follow that breed standard either.