Breed Help Needed

[Jwren7]

Hello all! Excited to be a part of this forum, and learn as much as possible about our little chicks.

Can you guys help me identify the breeds on these three? The farm supply store didn’t do a great job at labeling the different breeds they had available, but the grey is supposed to be an olive egger, the brown an amerucana, and the other brown/speckled is supposed to be another amerucana but their markings are so different it’s hard to believe.

Thanks in advance and thanks for allowing me on the forum!

 

[JedJackson]

Both the browns are probably easter eggers and definitely not Ameraucanas. Easter eggers vary a lot in color so it's no surprise yours look different from each other. However, the brown bird next to the gray one has yellowish legs, which could mean it's a Welsummer or brown Leghorn. Time will tell. The gray is probably an olive egger with a Marans as one parent since the legs are feathered.

 

[Jwren7]

Both the browns are probably easter eggers and definitely not Ameraucanas. Easter eggers vary a lot in color so it's no surprise yours look different from each other. However, the brown bird next to the gray one has yellowish legs, which could mean it's a Welsummer or brown Leghorn. Time will tell. The gray is probably an olive egger with a Marans as one parent since the legs are feathered.

Good stuff, I thought for certain the brown on the left was an Ameraucana. Need to look up info on Marans now, had no idea about that.

Thank you!

 

[JedJackson]

Good stuff, I thought for certain the brown on the left was an Ameraucana. Need to look up info on Marans now, had no idea about that.

Thank you!

You are welcome. Olive eggers are or should be crosses between dark brown egg layers and blue/green egg layers. Usually it is Marans or Welsummer crossed with easter eggers. Of those breeds only Marans have feathered legs so it's a fair bet a Marans is one of the parents of your olive egger chick.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Easter eggers and an olive egger

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Top photo:
I agree that
left splash colored (whitish with greyish spots) looks to be Marans cross, which is typical in an olive egger, something dark brown laying (like Marans) bred to something blue laying (like an Easter Egger if from hatchery)

middle is not an EE. Looks to be a Welsummer or maybe Brown Leghorn. Watch that chest. If it is salmon colored, it will be a female Welsummer...you'll like them. If it becomes more brown colored, and white earlobed, it is Brown Leghorn, but you'll have to wait for sex to show.

Last is an Easter Egger, typical female coloring.

LofMc

 

[BirdGirl2004]

They look a lot like EE's to me! Cuties!!

 

[Jwren7]

Any guess on age of the chicks? Thanks for all of the responses!!

 

[Lady of McCamley]

About 4 weeks of age...give or take.
LofMc

 

[drumstick diva]

x2 Jed Jackson