BLRW/BBS Ameraucana Chick... It's a GIRL for Sure (Newer pics post 45)

[speckledhen]

She/he is five weeks old now. I think I may be seeing the early beginnings of a beard & muffs, especially in the second pic, but not sure yet. Again, yes, she/he came out of a nice blue egg and I noticed before she'd completely kicked the shell off that she had a reddish tinge to her fluff. The color is puzzling and unexpected. Could be she's leaning more toward the red part of the BLRW, I guess, but dang, that so looks like a RIR chick..and I've had plenty of those over time.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

She looks like a pullet, she is such a cute color.

 

[Mandalina]

LOL, she does have the RIR coloring but she is starting to grow a beard so I dont think she is one.

 

[speckledhen]

So you see the beard, too! Okay, then it's not just me, LOL. She came from a BBS Ameraucana flock who had a BLRW rooster visit for a spell, so I already knew there was the possibility of an unconventional Ameraucana. It will be fun watching her grow out and that's the main reason I'm hoping for a pullet, so I can watch her develop and change.

 

[debilorrah]

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You are not seeing things - I see the beard too. But you are right - that looks like a RIR! Til you see the feather tips that is....

 

[speckledhen]

Even the feather tips are similar to all the RIR chicks I've raised, though maybe slightly more patterned. See this picture? This chick is from my last batch of RIRs in 2008.

 

[kathyinmo]

Looks like a pretty little pullet to me! She is her own individual, unlike others before her!
I see the beard, too.

Reminds me of all the different looks that your Meg and Suede produce in offspring! Of course, my Miss Polly is the beauty queen of alllll of those, as we all know!

 

[speckledhen]

Makes me happy that you all think she's a pullet!

 

[speckledhen]

Just adding more pics now that she's a few days older. Still no more comb development, so I've named her Rita, after HorseFeathers's red sexlink hen who passed recently. She could bloom later, I guess, but seems that most of my cockerels of any breed are fairly obvious by six weeks old.

 

[halo]

Just when you think you have genetics figured out, Rita shows up!