Please help me to identify our yellow chickens!

[Splashed Silkies]

We bought these lovely birds from Tractor Supply back in February and for some reason we thought they were Ameracaunas (I think that’s how you spell it?) but recently we’ve come to the realization that they’re CERTAINLY not that type of bird. Here are some pictures to help identify them (we don’t think they are Buff Orpington as we have some and they look much different while growing)
(EDIT: The pictures have been added! I accidentally posted the thread first so the pictures are in the replies. )

 

[Splashed Silkies]

Here they are! Even if we can't identify them, they are still beautiful birds.

 

[Thyme4Chickens]

Maybe ISA browns?
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/isa-brown-chicken-sold-in-quantities-of-10

This is the description from the webpage:
"The ISA Brown chicken is considered a prolific egg layer. It is a docile bird, and extremely easy to work with. When baby chicks are hatched, they are brownish - red and white. When mature the feathering is mostly golden brown with spots of white throughout their body. Hens lay a very large brown egg with excellent shell quality.

• Bird Purpose: Egg layer
• Egg Production Rate: Females ONLY; Ranges from 264-285 eggs/year
• Egg Color: Brown
• Egg Size: Large
• Ideal Environment: Coop/Free range
• Bird Personality: Docile
• Conservancy Status: Domestic
• Bird Color: As a chick, the birds are brownish - red and white. When mature, the feathering is mostly golden brown with spots of white throughout the body.
• Mature Weight: Ranges approximately 4 to 4.5 lb. at full maturity

 

[sylviethecochin]

Welcome to BYC!

They look like Buff Orpingtons to me. Maybe they're a different hatchery/different line than your originals?

It's spelled Ameraucana, but I think you thought they were Easter Eggers. Easter Eggers are often mislabelled as "Americanas" or some other term, and they lay green, pink, and brown eggs. Ameraucanas are rather expensive purebred chickens and they lay blue eggs.

@JedJackson and @Gray Farms might be able to help with breed, but I'm pretty sure that you have are Buffs, even if the legs do look a little dark. Can you get a standing side picture of one?

 

[sylviethecochin]

Maybe ISA browns?
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/isa-brown-chicken-sold-in-quantities-of-10

This is the description from the webpage:
"The ISA Brown chicken is considered a prolific egg layer. It is a docile bird, and extremely easy to work with. When baby chicks are hatched, they are brownish - red and white. When mature the feathering is mostly golden brown with spots of white throughout their body. Hens lay a very large brown egg with excellent shell quality.

• Bird Purpose: Egg layer
• Egg Production Rate: Females ONLY; Ranges from 264-285 eggs/year
• Egg Color: Brown
• Egg Size: Large
• Ideal Environment: Coop/Free range
• Bird Personality: Docile
• Conservancy Status: Domestic
• Bird Color: As a chick, the birds are brownish - red and white. When mature, the feathering is mostly golden brown with spots of white throughout the body.
• Mature Weight: Ranges approximately 4 to 4.5 lb. at full maturity

Nah. The picture below is an ISA from Hoover (the Hatchery that you're ordering to through TSC.) Most hatcheries have very reddish ISAs.

 

[Thyme4Chickens]

(we don’t think they are Buff Orpington as we have some and they look much different while growing)

What did they look like as chicks?

 

[JedJackson]

They look like buff Orpingtons to me. They can be pretty variable because some are more like the big, fluffy show birds and some are bred for egg production and are smaller, sometimes more pale in color.

 

[Thyme4Chickens]

Most hatcheries have very reddish ISAs.

Wow those are red! I've never seen a real live ISA - just the pic at the TSC site!

 

[Alexandra33]

Looks as though they're Buff Orpingtons. Are their legs pink?

~Alex

 

[Splashed Silkies]

Welcome to BYC!

They look like Buff Orpingtons to me. Maybe they're a different hatchery/different line than your originals?

It's spelled Ameraucana, but I think you thought they were Easter Eggers. Easter Eggers are often mislabelled as "Americanas" or some other term, and they lay green, pink, and brown eggs. Ameraucanas are rather expensive purebred chickens and they lay blue eggs.

@JedJackson and @Gray Farms might be able to help with breed, but I'm pretty sure that you have are Buffs, even if the legs do look a little dark. Can you get a standing side picture of one?

Thank you for the advice! I will certainly try my best to get a side picture if I can, but they like to run away from me, which is why I was holding the chicken in the picture.