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Can anyone tell me what kind of hen this is?

Well, they do if you buy them from Murray McMurray..that’s all I can say..maybe my description of the leg color is incorrect, but, my girl is very similar to a pic from their site, and, I’ve identified all my others as Whiting True Blues..unless I’m mistaking the girl I call Lavender for the Ameraucana, and this one as a true blue, but, from what McMurray told me, I think I’m correct. They say their Ameraucana have different colorations. Also, the Ameraucana breeder site says slate or even black legs also..
http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/forum/index.php?topic=341.0

heres another..
https://farmhouseguide.com/ameraucana-chicken-colors/
here’s a pic from that..mine isn’t bantam, but, close coloration..

and yes ..roosters are awesome..I just wish my neighborhood would allow them!
Check above post..Ameraucanas have many accepted colorations..
I know ameraucanas come in silver, buff, wheaten, blue wheaten, splash wheaten, blue, black, splash, white, brown red, and self blue. However, your hen matches none of these colors. The pictures you’ve posted and the ones in that article are all pictures of EEs, and don’t match any varieties of ameraucana. The thread about leg color mentions that willow (green) legs are a fault, though chicks sometimes hatch with slightly off colored legs and the color changes once they’ve grown in their feathers.

Here is a gallery showing the varieties of ameraucanas from their breed club website: http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/gallery.html. You can see that brown red is actually black with red in the hackles (in the case of hens).
 
I know ameraucanas come in silver, buff, wheaten, blue wheaten, splash wheaten, blue, black, splash, white, brown red, and self blue. However, your hen matches none of these colors. The pictures you’ve posted and the ones in that article are all pictures of EEs, and don’t match any varieties of ameraucana. The thread about leg color mentions that willow (green) legs are a fault, though chicks sometimes hatch with slightly off colored legs and the color changes once they’ve grown in their feathers.

Here is a gallery showing the varieties of ameraucanas from their breed club website: http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/gallery.html. You can see that brown red is actually black with red in the hackles (in the case of hens).
This hen was bought as an Ameraucana..she’s a dead on match for several things I’ve posted. Red, and brown red are accepted colorationsvafter you said they didn’t come in that color. The pic is vibrant, I have less vibrant pics, but that’s no excuse for continually trying to prove me wrong, especially when you’ve already had to backtrack that red and or brown red is an accepted coloration. The articles are about Ameraucana, NOT easter eggers, in them they make that distinction.
 

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This hen was bought as an Ameraucana..she’s a dead on match for several things I’ve posted. Red, and brown red are accepted colorationsvafter you said they didn’t come in that color. The pic is vibrant, I have less vibrant pics, but that’s no excuse for continually trying to prove me wrong, especially when you’ve already had to backtrack that red and or brown red is an accepted coloration.
I’m not trying to prove you wrong. I’m trying to say that the hatchery lied to you. Red is not an accepted coloration. And brown red looks like this:
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This hen was bought as an Ameraucana..she’s a dead on match for several things I’ve posted. Red, and brown red are accepted colorationsvafter you said they didn’t come in that color. The pic is vibrant, I have less vibrant pics, but that’s no excuse for continually trying to prove me wrong, especially when you’ve already had to backtrack that red and or brown red is an accepted coloration. The articles are about Ameraucana, NOT easter eggers, in them they make that distinction.
She is an Easter Egger. That is actually quite a common pattern for EEs.
 
She is an Easter Egger. That is actually quite a common pattern for EEs.
I’ll post a pic of her, then a pic of an article about Ameraucanas..it’s not me that’s wrong here..sold as Ameraucana, articles that label as Ameraucana that specifically state that they are not Easter Eggers, if that doesn’t convince you, nothing will.
 

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I’ll post a pic of her, then a pic of an article about Ameraucanas..it’s not me that’s wrong here..sold as Ameraucana, articles that label as Ameraucana that specifically state that they are not Easter Eggers, if that doesn’t convince you, nothing will.
The picture in that article is of an EE. Unfortunately, EEs are often sold as Ameraucanas, so many people think they have pure birds, when they actually aren't. To get a pure Ameraucana, you have to go to a breeder, and they cost a good amount of money.
 

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