Auracanas? Or crossbred Easter Eggers?

[TheSlatterClan]

I was told both of these pullets we're Auracanas, but unfortunately neither are rumpless. They both look as though they will be beared. 5 weeks old

 

[TheSlatterClan]

I just went to check on their "rumplessness" and I noticed they don't have the stiffness like my other birds.

 

[Kev]

both easter eggers. both have tails for sure. rumpless is totally lacking the tail- no tail bump at all where the feathers come out of. the spine abruptly ends.

the one in first pic is showing roo colors- the darker areas coming up. the other is not really showing roo feathers but it just looks masculine.. kinda cool colors though.

 

[speckledhen]

Where did you get them? If from a hatchery, not one hatchery that I know of sells Araucanas. Those are very rare. They also, with one exception, don't sell Ameraucanas. I think Meyer is now selling what they say is a true blue Ameraucana, but the quality is surely not what you'd get in a breeder bird.

99% of all birds labeled "Ameraucana/Araucana" are Easter Eggers. Most folks think they're all the same thing. I personally do not like the looks of Araucanas with their rumplessness (meaning, they do not have the body part that holds a tail at all) and their ear tufts (as opposed to the muffs of the true Ameraucana and most EEs), but I love all the Blue/Black/Splash Ameraucanas I've had, as well as the EEs I created here from various roosters over those Ameraucana hens.

I love the bluish one in your second photo. EEs are cool birds. My oldest one is 7 years old and still laying.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Where did you get them? If from a hatchery, not one hatchery that I know of sells Araucanas. Those are very rare. They also, with one exception, don't sell Ameraucanas. I think Meyer is now selling what they say is a true blue Ameraucana, but the quality is surely not what you'd get in a breeder bird.

99% of all birds labeled "Ameraucana/Araucana" are Easter Eggers. Most folks think they're all the same thing.

x2 on this advice.

 

[TheSlatterClan]

both easter eggers.  both have tails for sure.    rumpless is totally lacking the tail- no tail bump at all where the feathers come out of.  the spine abruptly ends.

the one in first pic is showing roo colors- the darker areas coming up.   the other is not really showing roo feathers but it just looks masculine.. kinda cool colors though.

I'm really hoping they are not Roos!!!! They were sexed as pullets.

I'm going to be devastated if we have have to get rid of more chickens

 

[BantamLover21]

They're Easter Eggers, and they look like pullets for now.

 

[TheSlatterClan]

They're Easter Eggers, and they look like pullets for now.

I sure do hope you are right!