Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

[ilovechickens34]

This chick is about 14 weeks. I'm still not sure what it is yet. I think he/she kinda looks like a rooster, but it's not acting like one at all. Please let me know what you guys think!

 

[junebuggena]

This chick is about 14 weeks. I'm still not sure what it is yet. I think he/she kinda looks like a rooster, but it's not acting like one at all. Please let me know what you guys think!

Cockerel.

 

[kelsey jordan]

This is a 8 week old ancacona / amaracanas .. Aka Easter egger my mom thinks it's a rooster

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[junebuggena]

This is a 8 week old ancacona / amaracanas .. Aka Easter egger my mom thinks it's a rooster .

Araucana and Ameraucana are not the same things as Easter Eggers. They are three, very distinct types of birds. You have an Easter Egger. And it's a pullet.

 

[drumstick diva]

white 14 wk. chick is a cockerel

 

[drumstick diva]

Easter egger is a pullet

 

[kelsey jordan]

Araucana and Ameraucana are not the same things as Easter Eggers. They are three, very distinct types of birds. You have an Easter Egger. And it's a pullet.

The hatchery I got them from called them araucana/ameraucana

 

[cmccullough1390]

The hatchery I got them from called them araucana/ameraucana

They all do to sell its an old label for a mix breed they're just Easter eggers which is a mix bird carrying a the blue egg gene which is why the hatcheries keep the old label. The only way to get a true araucana or ameraucana two different birds is through a reputable breeder

 

[yeye5]

I know this thread is gender related and not breed related...so I hope I'm not putting anyone out by posting here the 2 roosters and one RIR (or production red?).
I did start a thread separate but got zero replies.
Hopefully someone/s will know what breeds these newcomers are. This is Creamy Roo:
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This next is Coco Loco (who has a color of such vibrant orange as I've never seen)! Here he is at his old place of residence.


Coco Loco the day he came home:


And one of Coco Loco's new ladies, I'd like to know if Coraline is in fact an RIR or maybe a production red?





I really appreciate anyone who can shed some light on the breeds of the 2 roo boys and of Coraline, the pretty red girl.
Thank you!

 

[junebuggena]

They all do to sell its an old label for a mix breed they're just Easter eggers which is a mix bird carrying a the blue egg gene which is why the hatcheries keep the old label. The only way to get a true araucana or ameraucana two different birds is through a reputable breeder

Hatchery Easter Eggers aren't mixes. They just haven't updated their marketing. Prior to the 1970s, there were no Ameraucana/Araucana/Easter Egger distinctions made. There were no breed standards accepted for the Ameraucana and the Araucana. All of those types of birds were interbred and all were called Araucana, however, they would have been considered Easter Eggers by today's definitions.
It's those birds that hatcheries started with, and are still breeding. It's not that they are selling mixed breeds. They just never bothered to update their marketing to reflect the changes that have occurred.