Olive Egger and Americana

[Mnbarrelracer02]

I’m super new to chickens and can’t tell the gender of these two. One is an olive egger and the other an Americana. They are 9-10 weeks old. Born Aug 27 and Sept 3.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

They are both female! congratulations you can look forward to some pretty colored eggs.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Oh, and welcome to BYC!

 

[SerrarGett]

Beautiful girls!
Oh, and you've probably heard this a thousand times already, but welcome to BYC.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

They are both female. Your "Americana" is an Easter Egger. There is no such breed as Americana as much as feed stores mislabel them. Ameraucana is the breed, with very strict breed specifications, which are generally only sold by top breeders. Anything most of us can get at a feed store or local backyarder are Easter Eggers, meaning a mix breed with some Ameraucana blood in the back ground.

Americanas often lay light green eggs, but may lay brown or light blue. (It differs whether the bird received the blue egg shell gene). Olive egger is a blue egger gened bird who also has brown wash genes (brown wash over blue shell produces green, brown wash over white shell produces shades of brown).

Doesn't matter for fun and beauty of the bird. Matters if you want to breed forward blue shell color.

Enjoy your lovely ladies.