Easter egg Roosters look very different.

HenTea

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Ok I am calling them Easter egg but we were told they were Americana. Any way not worried about that. We currently do not have a rooster. ( 9 hens) We got a bunch of chicks and think a bunch are roosters. My question why do 2 of the roosters so different. One stands like a hen, but is bigger, tail like a hen, very colourful, has no wobble but a red comb. It crowed today so definitely a rooster. The other has the low short strange tail. We just thought it was a rooster, but still has no red comb or any waddle. Its beak is different and It stands taller too. according to the person we got them off they should be the same Easter egg chickens. I really dont know anything about roosters. I could just be reading too much into it. But it seams so odd that they are so different.
 

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I am calling them Easter egg but we were told they were Americana....My question why do 2 of the roosters so different.
People breeding purebred chickens try to raise ones that all look the same, but they only got that way through many years of people carefully choosing to breed ones that looked alike.

Easter Eggers are typically selected to lay colored eggs, and hopefully to lay well, but they are not selected to look the same. So you can get quite a lot of variety (like the ones you have.)
 
Ok I am calling them Easter egg but we were told they were Americana. Any way not worried about that. We currently do not have a rooster. ( 9 hens) We got a bunch of chicks and think a bunch are roosters. My question why do 2 of the roosters so different. One stands like a hen, but is bigger, tail like a hen, very colourful, has no wobble but a red comb. It crowed today so definitely a rooster. The other has the low short strange tail. We just thought it was a rooster, but still has no red comb or any waddle. Its beak is different and It stands taller too. according to the person we got them off they should be the same Easter egg chickens. I really dont know anything about roosters. I could just be reading too much into it. But it seams so odd that they are so different.
Are you sure the first one is a rooster? Can you get a picture of the comb please?
They look so different because they are Easter Eggers. EEs are not really a breed. They are a mix of many different breeds with some kind of blue egg-laying breed mixed in, usually an Ameraucana. But because they are such a huge mix of breeds, each individual chicken will look different.
Also, they don't have any wattles because they have muffs.
 

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