Help identifying these chicks?

[chickenenthusiasts5698]

TSC chicks days are here and I bought 12 more chicks ( 4 jersey giants 4 welsummers 1 california white 1 isa brown) but I bought 2 chicks that didn’t have a tag saying what they were or what gender the could be. Normally i’m pretty good at identifying breeds but these 2 have me stumped. They’re clean legged no extra toes with a straight comb. Ones more silver and the other looks more gold it looks like they will have yellow legs it’s hard to tell. Thanks.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Keep in mind that TSC does not sell ameraucana, they sell easter eggers under the mis-nomer of 'americana'... These could be easter eggers.

 

[chickenenthusiasts5698]

Are Ameraucanas not EEs? What backs your claim that TSC does not sell Ameraucana chicks? Not to be confused with Araucana which I would believe they don't sell.

Americanas are mutts aka easter eggers Ameraucanas are an actual breed with a breed standard. TSC and about 99% of hatcherys sell Easter eggers they label them Americana to trick people.

 

[chickenenthusiasts5698]

Are Ameraucanas not EEs? What backs your claim that TSC does not sell Ameraucana chicks? Not to be confused with Araucana which I would believe they don't sell.

Here’s a screenshot from Hoover’s Hatchery which I believe most TSC use. Note that real Ameraucanas ONLY lay blue eggs and i need the screenshot from Hoover’s they say the can lay blue green or brown.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Point made. Although $2.50 didn't seem expensive to me, and I'm still delighted with getting them and the blue and lavender orps also at that price ( perhaps by accident!) - I hunted down their local chick days circular and it wet to Hoovers, showed easter eggers; the store did have it written americanas. Sigh...

On the bright side I learned these are already 8 to 12 weeks old, thus explaing why no chicks complaining about the teperature in my crude makeshift brooder being 70-80°F.

yea, I just went and looked at MPC, who do sell true ameraucana... theirs are just under $20ea. LOL Without shipping. My araucana were all no less than $35 (for the cockerels) and $40 (for the pullets).

 

[Boonie Stomper]

My guess is Amercauna, as got them myself yesterday at TSC.

The 2 gray ones are Orpingtons., not sure for sure which; the brown are Amercaunas.

 

[Boonie Stomper]

Note the word guessing!

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Are Ameraucanas not EEs? What backs your claim that TSC does not sell Ameraucana chicks? Not to be confused with Araucana which I would believe they don't sell.

Pretty much what they all said.
When you buy from a feed store, the likelihood is that they are selling EE, especially if they misspell the breed with the 'I' in the middle. True ameraucana are more expensive than EE and araucana are even more expensive than ameraucana. Araucana and ameraucana follow a breed standard, and EE do not. EE can look like anything, so long as they're a mix that was bred with the intention of carrying the blue egg gene.

 

[Boonie Stomper]

Here’s a screenshot from Hoover’s Hatchery which I believe most TSC use. Note that real Ameraucanas ONLY lay blue eggs and i need the screenshot from Hoover’s they say the can lay blue green or brown.

Pretty much what they all said.
When you buy from a feed store, the likelihood is that they are selling EE, especially if they misspell the breed with the 'I' in the middle. True ameraucana are more expensive than EE and araucana are even more expensive than ameraucana. Araucana and ameraucana follow a breed standard, and EE do not. EE can look like anything, so long as they're a mix that was bred with the intention of carrying the blue egg gene.

Point made. Although $2.50 didn't seem expensive to me, and I'm still delighted with getting them and the blue and lavender orps also at that price ( perhaps by accident!) - I hunted down their local chick days circular and it wet to Hoovers, showed easter eggers; the store did have it written americanas. Sigh...

On the bright side I learned these are already 8 to 12 weeks old, thus explaing why no chicks complaining about the teperature in my crude makeshift brooder being 70-80°F.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Now, since TSC chicks are supposedly 8 - 12 weeks old, shouldn't it be possible to sex them?
Or, are they really still under 4 weeks old (as am starting to suspect)?
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Wow! They said these guys were 6-8 weeks?!?! They'd be fully feathered and half adult sized!
These guys are under 4 weeks, and I've never known TSC to sell anything older than 3 weeks (and that's only if they stay in the store that long). I'm shocked they advertised them that old!!!