Are We Roosters?

[abantau84]

Hi I’m a beginner! And I have 2 Ameraucanas I purchase at my local feed store as pullets and some say they look like Easter Eggers but I’m more concerned with their sex. The white and wheat colored one is a little more bossy towards my flock and will run up on the hens and peck. The black one is not bossy at all but seems more protective and will only run up on us if the kids are trying to catch a hen but. Both are generally sweet and quiet barely make a peep. The Anyways that’s a short back story but I got them the 2nd week of April so I believe they’re about 11 weeks old.

 

[nuthatched]

Both are cockerels and easter eggers as feed stores don't sell real Ameracauna

 

[BastyPutt]

Hello there

Yes, these are cockerels. I'll explain what the previous poster meant about Easter eggers.

Ameraucanas have very specific standards to be able to be called an Ameraucana. Leg color, egg color, the appearance of their face, and then there are only a handful of colors they can have for feathers. In both cases here, your birds have red feathers which tells us two things - first, they are boys and second they aren't ameraucana.

What these chickens are actually called is an Easter Egger, or Americana - but not, and Ameraucana. Confusing huh? (If you want to keep calling it an Ameracauna - all the power to you! )

Lastly, it is untrue that they aren't sold at feed stores. Mine sells them a few times a year and others do as well. It would probably be more accurate to say :
"Ameraucanas are rarely sold in feed stores. What is more likely to be sold are Easter Eggers."

 

[Yard Farmer]

Both are cockerels and easter eggers as feed stores don't sell real Ameracauna

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[abantau84]

Hello there

Yes, these are cockerels. I'll explain what the previous poster meant about Easter eggers.

Ameraucanas have very specific standards to be able to be called an Ameraucana. Leg color, egg color, the appearance of their face, and then there are only a handful of colors they can have for feathers. In both cases here, your birds have red feathers which tells us two things - first, they are boys and second they aren't ameraucana.

What these chickens are actually called is an Easter Egger, or Americana - but not, and Ameraucana. Confusing huh? (If you want to keep calling it an Ameracauna - all the power to you! )

Lastly, it is untrue that they aren't sold at feed stores. Mine sells them a few times a year and others do as well. It would probably be more accurate to say :
"Ameraucanas are rarely sold in feed stores. What is more likely to be sold are Easter Eggers."

Thank you so much for all the information! I could have misread the sign at the feed store maybe it said Americanas? Cause I know it didn’t say Easter Eggers. I’m not too sure I just couldn’t resist buys them with their cute puffy cheeks lol . But I’m brand new to backyard chickens so this all good information for me But I had my suspicions about them being boys, nice to get some sound advice on it

 

[BastyPutt]

I could have misread the sign at the feed store maybe it said Americanas?

You would have been one in thousands that does it every year then ends up here on the forums. It is a common mistaken, intended by the hatcheries for it to happen - tricksters they are!

I prefer an EE personally. They will still lay colored eggs (usually green, not blue - but sometimes blue). Because it is BASICALLY, not exactly, a mix between a prolific brown egg layer and an Ameraucana, you are going to get more, larger eggs than you'd get with an Ameraucana - and yes, still their cute - or handsome in this case - look.