Is my hen an Americana Bantam?

CoopedChik

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Her little beard has been plucked out some it's usually alot more puffly then this.
This is Lion Head, she's my favorite little girl she rides along on my shoulder while I am feeding everyone else in the early morning. She will follow me right into the house if I let her
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I got this wonderful little chicken a year ago in a box label "25 cent chicks" I asked what was in the box and the lady said some mixed breeds and a few purebred Americanas. So I picked this lovely lady out. And she seems to reach all the standards of an American. Horned beak grey feet with white on the bottom and the proper crown. But she seems a bit tall to me for a bantam well atleast compare to my D'uccles she is. So I want to know what everyone else thinks? She is a slightly tall bantma but still very small she ways around 24 or 30 ounces depending on how much she has eaten, she seems too be constantly skinny to me also but there is nothing wrong with her I've had her checked even.
 
Well you say that she's bigger than your D'Uccles and those a pretty well sized bantams, so I think she's a standard sized girl.
 
Looks like an Easter Egger or EE (hybridized green egg layer) to me, not a pure Ameraucana. If she were pure she's have a horn (blue-gray or black) beak, light slate shanks (yours looks like she has willow) and standardized coloring (wheaten, black, blue, splash, white, etc.). Does she lay blue eggs or green eggs? She sounds like a bantam to me given her size. but she could very well be a cross between a bantam and a large fowl.
 

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