Blue Ameraucana...pullet?

[chickiepoo]

This chick hatched around May 4th....so almost three months old. There were two and judging between the two I thought this one was a cockeral and the other a pullet. The other one had a crooked beak though and was confusing; also, she didn't make it. So, I don't have a same age chick for comparison. Neither picture is very good, but the first one is the best I have gotten of her face, and the second the best of her tail. I think I see a splash tail feather. So, would that make her a Splash?
I have two older Blue cockerals that are almost five months old, so I may be just wishfully thinking that the younger one is MAYBE a pullet. If she is a pullet, of couse, she is HOME, but the older cockerals are way ahead of this one in the color dept. IMO.

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[speckledhen]

No, she is definitely a blue. A splash is a white bird with accent feathers. My blues on occasion would have a darker blue feather in the tail. Hard to really verify sex by that pic, but there, it looks like a pullet.

 

[Mahonri]

Beautiful Blue EE pullet.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, Mahonri, she is probably a true Ameraucana. Her legs are slate as they should be and blue is an accepted color. chickiepoo, where did you get her? If you got her from a hatchery, count yourself quite lucky!

 

[chickiepoo]

Thanks, Cynthia. I do hope you are right. In March I got 8 eggs and three chicks from a breeder in NC, and I have three to show for it. I had four. One of the three chicks that I KNOW was a pullet died last Wed. Terrible day. She was healthy, thriving, looking beautiful, and I found her dead when I went out to feed. My chickens roost in the horse stalls and go in and out under the stall doors to scratch, so the best I could figure from her location and condition (not a mark, but her neck seemed to be broken) I think she just stuck her head through about the time one of the horses pawed and hit her.
Where should I post pics of the two older cockerals to ask opinions of which of them to keep?

 

[speckledhen]

I'd post your cockerel pics under BREEDS. Look forward to seeing those.
EDITED TO ADD PIC:
Here are two of my Blue pullets I had and you can see the dark tailfeather in one of them

 

[chickiepoo]

To answer your question, Cyn, I got her from a breeder in NC. No hatchery chick. Uhm, his name is Kevin Bell at StormStryder farms. His black roo is son of some black champion. I am sure it is on his website. His sister owns the roo and he is borrowing him. I'll go now and post the cockeral pics on Breeds.
Beautiful pullets.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, then she's an Ameraucana. I have an Easter Egger from StormStryder, given to me as a gift when she was a chick. She came from an egg that was supposed to be a Salmon or a Blue, but obviously, she's neither. Pretty girl, very sweet. Has coloring similar to a Blue Wheaten cockerel.

 

[chickiepoo]

Appreciate the help Cynthia.
I have several barnyard chicken muts, but when I convinced DH to let me get the Ameraucanas I wanted to make sure they were Ameraucanas. I had an EE cockerel for a while. He had no manners. It got so bad that every time I went out to feed, if I ever lost eye contact with him, next thing he was trying to put his spurs in me. I know some are sweet, but the disposition thing is so unpredictable that was one thing that convinced me to go with true Ameraucanas. I love em.
Just thought about something also. This chick is the most skittish of the three. That can be a pullet attribute also, correct?
She isn't really scared, just the last to come out, the last to roost, easily spooked by the other chickens when eating.