Can you help sex my Araucanas please?

[Dparkerosler]

Is it possible to get closer and clearer shots of the birds? In the first picture the one on the garbage can looks like a cockerel.

Hi, welcome to BYC!

Those may be Araucana crosses but not pure in my experience. They shouldn't be crested or have rumps if true Araucana. And they should have tufts not muffs...

https://the-chicken-chick.com/ameraucana-easter-egger-or-araucana/

Where did those come from? The bearding gene inhibits waddles so they should be pretty small still on both genders. They look to be Lavender or Splash in color. At this age you can only go by body size and comb/waddle color and size. In a few weeks they will start to grow saddle feather which tell the whole story in most breeds..

None of those photos are close or clear enough to make an educated guess on gender yet.

The crests are cute, curious to know what they really are? Lovely birds!

 

[Dparkerosler]

Hi - thanks for input they were sold to me as being aruacanas still being a novice at this though have a 14 flock of alsorts of chickens sold to me as one thing and actually aren’t at all what they were purchased for.

Tried to get some more pics but the bloody things are always on the move and kinder camera shy lol

 

[Dparkerosler]

Is it possible to get closer and clearer shots of the birds? In the first picture the one on the garbage can looks like a cockerel.

 

[Dparkerosler]

The best I could do without having to touch them lol

 

[Frazzemrat1]

The best I could do without having to touch them lol

How old are they?

 

[Dparkerosler]

How old are they?

Only 9 weeks old!!! No crowing as yet!!

 

[Table4Six]

Since they're only a little over 2 months, I'd say you have a high chance of having two cockerels. Their combs already appear to be a reddening. Very handsome birds.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hi - thanks for input they were sold to me as being aruacanas still being a novice at this though have a 14 flock of alsorts of chickens sold to me as one thing and actually aren’t at all what they were purchased for.

Tried to get some more pics but the bloody things are always on the move and kinder camera shy lol

They are beautiful birds! Where are you located? It appears maybe I was incorrect with my comments if you are not in the US and that was the standard I was looking at.

The first one on the last pics posted looks like a cockerel... by how red the head is. Were they sold to you straight run?

 

[lomine]

Hmm curious how two birds with completely different traits can be the same breed... I get different standards but that's huge. Anyways, NEVER stop learning!

It used to be that the birds we now know as Ameraucana in the US, were also named Araucana. In '76 the breed standard for the Araucana was admitted into the APA. The standard excluded anything with a tail or beard/muffs. Those breeding those verities were none to happy and so created their own breed standard which was eventually named the Ameraucana (American + Araucana) and admitted into the APA in '84. They have different traits but all came from the same birds exported from Chili in the early 1900s. The UK just never separated the traits into different standards.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

The UK just never separated the traits into different standards.

And they also accept crests over there?

The crest are cute on these birds.