Need help identifying this pullet! Whiting True Blue or Ameraucana?

[SouthernFarmGirl]

So, I got a mixture of breeds from a friend, all as day old chicks. Most of them I have figured out, but not this one! Can anyone help me identify what this breed is? By process of elimination, it *should* be either a Whiting True Blue or an Ameraucana. I thought that if it was an Ameraucana it should have green legs though, as my other Ameraucanas do. She has a very upright tail, fluffy cheeks, and is fast and flighty.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Ameraucanas do not have green legs. It sounds like your "Ameraucanas" are actually easter eggers (nothing wrong with that).

This one has yellow skin, too, so I think it is an Easter Egger as the Whitings I have seen do not have muffs, though I've only looked at pictures a few times.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Well I just looked at the Murray McMurray website and some do have muffs but they look to all have starkly yellow legs with no wash so my best guess is still Easter Egger.

 

[Folly's place]

Welcome! She's a very pretty bird, an EE like your other green legged girls. How old? Could she be a cockerel instead? Mary

 

[keesmom]

My whiting true blues are all built like Leghorns, and a couple are flighty. Some have beards/muffs but not all. At the moment I can't say if they all have yellow legs or if some have green. The EEs have a heavier build and all have beards/muffs.

I do know the whitings all lay blue eggs while the EE eggs range from blue to light green to dark green.

 

[drumstick diva]

EE pullet

 

[FreeRangers4Me]

My WTB are colored partridge, blue, black, splash, white, partially barred (male), wheaten, and a male that is cream, red, and black. Some have yellow legs and others have grey/green. Some have puffy cheeks and some don't. Some and beards and other don't. Most have pea combs. Some have single combs. A few have what looks like a combo of both comb types. All of mine came from Murray McMurray btw.

I think the only consistent characteristics are leghorn body type, leghorn personally, and excellent layers of blue eggs.

OP, your bird looks a lot like my blue WTBs just a little darker but I'm not an expert.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Both are an example of hatchery hybrids (mix birds) not breeds.
That is why you can have so much difference in the different batches and even between siblings...all those mixed genes expressing differently.
The fact that both have some Ameraucana in their background (for the chances of blue shell genes and thus the blue or green eggs) means that some will have muffs and beards. But those drop out fairly easily which is why you'll see some with and some without.

Hybrids are a lot of fun, and the variations can be stunning.

LofMc