Ok, finally got the pics...now maybe ya'll can help

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I posted before about having a roo before under the title "I've hade it happen before and now im ultra nervous..."
Its been quite the process to get these pictures on here, so the infor is on the other post and here are the pictures.
I hope you guys can help. I really love this chicken and hope its not another roo.

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The black chick is the one I hatched and am wondering about gender. The tan one is one I bought from my feed store, supposedly an Ameraucana/ EE.
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Both EEs. The one from the feestore is a pullet.

As for the dark one, the color is typically pullet, but... with a comb that red, I would wonder, depending on the age. How old is it?
 
Yippeee! But how can you guys tell? And why do they look so different? They are about 2 months old. Just put them outside with the flock.
 
I think the comb may look more red because of the red bulb in the heat lamp? The first, head on pic looks yellowish orange.
 
They both look pretty girly to me.
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The lighter brown one is in the colors which EE pullets often appear. The darker one just looks like an EE pullet; I have nothing concrete on which to base my opinion other than the green legs and pea comb. Looks a little more feathered out than many cockerels at that age.
 
They're both EE's for sure. I'm kinda on the fence about the dark one, could be a boy.

EE's look like almost anything because they are mutts/mixed breed, but there are certain traits that tend to carry over despite the mixing. The browner one is "classic" EE coloring though. Body shape, combs, greenish legs, are examples that tell us they are EEs. Some have fluffy muffs, tuffs, or beards, but even on birds without "beards" they still have kinda puffy neck feathers that look different than other breeds and I see that in your darker one.
 

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