Help identify please?

[Georgiahome622]

Hi there!

I have 13 hens and a surprise rooster that are 9 weeks old. I'm new to this and enjoying it very much! My chickens adore me but only one or two will allow me to pick them up without a ruckus. I keep trying to gently pet them and gain their trust in my touch. They love me because I bring them a little banana or pear in the afternoon.

Anyway, my chicks are a colored egg assortment from Hoover Hatchery - it supposedly contains a mixture of Americana, Olive Egger, Prairie Blue, Sapphire Olive, Starlight Green, 3 types of Marans: French Black Copper, Midnight Majesty and Cuckoo. I suspect also Easter Egger.

I have a few that are very similar, so I'm only asking about the ones with unique coloring.

Thank you so much,

Georgia

 

[Pentatonchix]

Americana is just another word for Easter Egger

 

[Georgiahome622]

Americana is just another word for Easter Egger

I've read that, but they list both breeds separately - so wondered what was up with that!

 

[Pentatonchix]

I've read that, but they list both breeds separately - so wondered what was up with that!

@EmmaRainboe @JadeFarms are good at spotting the differences between EEs and Ameraucanas.

 

[JadeFarms]

Hi there!

I have 13 hens and a surprise rooster that are 9 weeks old. I'm new to this and enjoying it very much! My chickens adore me but only one or two will allow me to pick them up without a ruckus. I keep trying to gently pet them and gain their trust in my touch. They love me because I bring them a little banana or pear in the afternoon.

Anyway, my chicks are a colored egg assortment from Hoover Hatchery - it supposedly contains a mixture of Americana, Olive Egger, Prairie Blue, Sapphire Olive, Starlight Green, 3 types of Marans: French Black Copper, Midnight Majesty and Cuckoo. I suspect also Easter Egger.

I have a few that are very similar, so I'm only asking about the ones with unique coloring.

Thank you so much,

Georgia

First looks like a midnight majesty maran, second looks like a Colombian Wyandotte, 3 and 4 are Easter eggers, 5 and 6 are probably prairie blue or starlight green, I’m not sure about 7 except for the fact that he’s a male and 8 is a buff orpington.

Americana = Easter egger
Purebred ameraucanas are spelled with no i and have a specific feather and leg color.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

1. Midnight Majesty Marans
2. Agree looks like Colombian Wyandotte
3. Easter Egger (Americana)
4. Easter Egger (Americana)
5. Starlight Green Egger
6. Either Olive Egger or One of the “hatchery hybrids” (Sappire Olive Egger, Prarie Blue, Starlight Green, etc... I don’t study the hatchery birds enough to know.)
7. New Hampshire Red? (@Overo Mare)
8. Buff Orpington.

No pure Ameraucanas. Americana is another name for EE. Hoover’s does not sell Ameraucanas to my knowledge.

 

[Painted Calls]

1. Midnight Majesty Marans
2. Agree looks like Colombian Wyandotte
3. Easter Egger (Americana)
4. Easter Egger (Americana)
5. Starlight Green Egger
6. Either Olive Egger or One of the “hatchery hybrids” (Sappire Olive Egger, Prarie Blue, Starlight Green, etc... I don’t study the hatchery birds enough to know.)
7. New Hampshire Red? (@Overo Mare)
8. Buff Orpington.

No pure Ameraucanas. Americana is another name for EE. Hoover’s does not sell Ameraucanas to my knowledge.


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Agreed.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

1. Midnight Majesty Marans
2. Agree looks like Colombian Wyandotte
3. Easter Egger (Americana)
4. Easter Egger (Americana)
5. Starlight Green Egger
6. Either Olive Egger or One of the “hatchery hybrids” (Sappire Olive Egger, Prarie Blue, Starlight Green, etc... I don’t study the hatchery birds enough to know.)
7. New Hampshire Red? (@Overo Mare)
8. Buff Orpington.

No pure Ameraucanas. Americana is another name for EE. Hoover’s does not sell Ameraucanas to my knowledge.


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I agree other than I think the New Hampshire is actually a broiler. They carry something called a Rudd Ranger that I would bet on. Also last two are both cockerels

 

[Painted Calls]

I agree other than I think the New Hampshire is actually a broiler. They carry something called a Rudd Ranger that I would bet on. Also last two are both cockerels

He is pretty beefy.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

I agree other than I think the New Hampshire is actually a broiler. They carry something called a Rudd Ranger that I would bet on. Also last two are both cockerels

He is meaty, though why would they put a broiler in an egg layer assortment?