Help telling mutt from true Ameraucanas

[lushland]

We ordered some BBS Ameraucana hatching eggs and hatched them with some of our mixed eggs from our own chickens. Most of them we can tell which are which but there are 4 blue chickens and I know that one of them is a mutt but I'm having trouble telling which one it is. I'm pretty sure the first 2 are roosters and the second 2 are hens but if that's wrong, let me know. I'm only planning on keeping one rooster so if one is better than the other, I'd like your opinion on that too. Thanks.

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[Pele]

We ordered some BBS Ameraucana hatching eggs and hatched them with some of our mixed eggs from our own chickens. Most of them we can tell which are which but there are 4 blue chickens and I know that one of them is a mutt but I'm having trouble telling which one it is. I'm pretty sure the first 2 are roosters and the second 2 are hens but if that's wrong, let me know. I'm only planning on keeping one rooster so if one is better than the other, I'd like your opinion on that too. Thanks.

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I believe your gender guesses are spot on. As far as which rooster to not keep, I think I see some red leakage in the beard of the very first roo. That is a disqualifier, I would cull him from your group.

 

[CochinBrahmaLover]

2 roos 2 hens, the saddle feathers are a dead give away

 

[hdowden]

keep the one that looks closest to this

rooster

hen

and heres the breed site http://www.ameraucana.org/index.html

 

[speckledhen]

You may have some base color bleed-thru, but they are pure Ameraucanas, looks like to me. I owned a black Ameraucana male with severe base color bleed thru who also passed it on to some of his sons. He came out of good breeder stock, too. It happens.

 

[lushland]

Thanks for the opinions. I think I do like the second rooster better.
I guess my main problem is that i watched a blue chick hatch from a brown egg so I know for sure that one of them is not a pure Ameraucana. I'm thinking it might be the first hen, her comb looks a little different but I'm not sure. They aren't laying yet so I can't tell from the eggs. I'm worried that I will only keep one rooster and then it will turn out that he is the mutt. Maybe I'll just have to keep them all.

 

[moonlitechick]

Can you get a better pic of the comb of the 1st roo. I suspect that that is your cross. He looks to me like his comb is more straight than pea.

 

[lushland]

Here is another picture of the first rooster's comb.
What do you think of the first hen's comb? It kind of looks a little off to me. It seems thinner and not as bumpy.

 

[hdowden]

i think its the first pullet her comb is way off

 

[speckledhen]

That may be your problem child. Looks like what you get when a single comb is crossed with a pea combed bird. Didn't see that at first. She's definitely not pure for pea comb, though I've had pure Ameraucanas with less than ideal pea combs, too.