Feed store chick (Not a Delaware)

[Lorri_Dee]

I bought two Delaware chicks from tractor feed store. One is a Delaware and one isn't. This completely white chick (dirty from dust bathing) has the wrong body shape and everything from muffs to blue legs. I'd jump on the EE band wagon, but I know this is a hatchery bird and every EE that was brought in was a partridge. If someone told me she was a true Ameracauna...I'd believe them, if I didn't know where she came from. Granted, I have limited experience with Ameracaunas. What do you all she is think?

 

[JedJackson]

Do you know where the feed store gets their chicks from? She does have blue legs like an Ameraucana should, so maybe she is one.

 

[Gray Farms]

She could be a White Ameraucana. Can't see her comb very good. Does she have a pea comb?

 

[theoldchick]

Wow! She's striking! She is definitely leaning toward being an Ameraucana. Though, the true Ameraucana breeders can get a bit touchy about theses birds coming from a hatchery so she's most likely an EE.

 

[Lorri_Dee]

Do you know where the feed store gets their chicks from? She does have blue legs like an Ameraucana should, so maybe she is one.

I got her from Wilco. I know one of the hatcheries they use is either Meyer or McMurry...I just remember it was one of the big "M's". But, they do use more than one.

 

[Lorri_Dee]

She could be a White Ameraucana. Can't see her comb very good. Does she have a pea comb?

I am pretty sure it is a pea comb...I will go get another picture of it.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Which wilco location? Some are also sourcing some specialty breeds from other sources outside the mainstream hatcheries

 

[Lorri_Dee]

Which wilco location? Some are also sourcing some specialty breeds from other sources outside the mainstream hatcheries

Wilco: Lebanon, Oregon. Do you know it?

 

[Lorri_Dee]

Wow! She's striking! She is definitely leaning toward being an Ameraucana. Though, the true Ameraucana breeders can get a bit touchy about theses birds coming from a hatchery so she's most likely an EE.

Hehehe, I got her for $1, so they would really get touchy I think!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Wilco: Lebanon, Oregon. Do you know it?

Yes, shop there everytime I visit my family down there.