Hello BYC world

[sourland]

Hello, and welcome to BYC. Free standing profile pictures would tell the tale for sure, but I think you have a couple of cockerels.

 

[halfdozenflock]

The brown one is an Easter Egger and the black one maybe an Australorp but it's very hard to see her body very well.

Oh no, they might have given me the wrong chick. I really wanted an Ameracauna. Here's a close up of the black one in case that helps to better ID it. Thanks.

 

[halfdozenflock]

Hello, and welcome to BYC. Free standing profile pictures would tell the tale for sure, but I think you have a couple of cockerels.

Which ones do you suspect? I can share closeups of those ones.

 

[007Sean]

Howdy, and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[sourland]

Which ones do you suspect? I can share closeups of those ones.

The brown EE, the spangled bird, and the black bird with copper hackles - although that may be an early developing pullet.

 

[janiedoe]

I think the black one is an easter egger.
She is sporting a pea comb. Some people call them americanas, not to be confused with true ameraucanas.

 

[halfdozenflock]

The brown EE, the spangled bird, and the black bird with copper hackles - although that may be an early developing pullet.

Here are close ups of all three. I also started another post about the black copper maran, because that's the one I worried most about being a rooster.

 

[halfdozenflock]

I think the black one is an easter egger.
She is sporting a pea comb. Some people call them americanas, not to be confused with true ameraucanas.

Ah... you are right! I did get an americana, not an ameracauna. Here is the description from the hatchery. But it still doesn't look like the ones in the photo on the description. Perhaps since they are a hybrid they come in many different looks though?

 

[DobieLover]

Perhaps since they are a hybrid they come in many different looks though?

Correct. And the 2 blue egg gene carriers that are used by the large hatcheries to create EEs are Ameraucanas and Legbars. That means that your EE is either going to have beard and muffs or a crest. The black bird has neither but the brown one has a beard and muffs. I don't think that bird is a cockerel. I think she is a pullet. She looks exactly like my 7 year old EE.
I do think the BCM is a cockerel.