Please help identify "mystery" breeds from MPC

[JestersEye]

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Huh... I hadn't thought of that. In that case, perhaps the explanation told to me by MPC has some merit, afterall. They said that 1% of Andalusian chicks start out red but feather in normally; and the red chick did turn out black in the end. Maybe MPC didn't actually botch the order as I had assumed, but simply deals with a hatchery with poor quality birds. (Sorry for doubting you, MPC.)

Oh well, I guess I succeeded in adding egg laying hens to the flock; even if I wouldn't breed these birds myself. I am expecting some hatching eggs from Gabbard Farms, which will hopefully give me much higher quality Andalusians to show and breed.

Thanks, everyone, for helping me figure things out!

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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I'm thinking your 12 week old andaulsians are cockerels and that's why their combs & wattles are so large. The 16 week old chicks from MPC have small combs because they are pullets.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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I now have 4 EE pullets/hens that look just like her. She's not a true ameraucana because she doesn't come in one of the accepted colors - she's actually an easter egger (sold by hatcheries as americanas/ameraucanas - my feedstore had her labeled as an araucana). I don't know what you'd call her color - I just think she's pretty.

 

[JestersEye]

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The two light blue ones are cockerals, but the white one is a pullet. She has a smaller comb than her brothers, but it's still much larger than the MPC pullets. Her mother and our other Andalusian hen also had a relatively large comb for hens, which is typical of the breed.