Supposed to be pure breed Ameraucana.

[DeannaA]

This is supposed to be a pure breed Ameraucana, not an Easter Egger. I made sure they knew the difference. He/She is 5 weeks but bigger than my 6 week Splash Copper Maran. He/SHe has been solid black (feet, feathers, comb, beak,eyes) until a few days ago. Now there are a few brown feathers coming up on the chest and shoulders. So, what do you think? Hen? Rooster? Type of chicken?

My closest guess is Brown Red Ameraucana Rooster but I don't think the feet or comb are supposed to be black or will that change?
The other chick is same age same kind but she is growing too slow.

 

[Tuhmu]

Interesting that she has black legs and a single comb....I don't know enough about what pure americanas look like, so ill sit back and learn with you

 

[dandrews1971]

I see no muffs or cheek puffs...
Interestingly enough, she looks JUST like my BSL chicks did....

 

[FrostBytn]

This is a picture of some Ameraucana chicks from last year.
The comb looks about the same.
I have read in the past that black legs are acceptable on black Ameraucanas.
Some ended up with beards and muffs and other combinations and some just have


the pea comb.
I have only had this breed for a year, and know nearly nothing about chickens.

 

[dandrews1971]

the brown leakage on the breast is what makes me question the breed, that combined with the black feet & lack of cheeks/muffs.

This is one of my BSL babies at just about the same age.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

With that brown leakage and it dosent look like it has a pea comb and beard, It dosent look like an ameraucana. The only thing that is keeping me from saying for sure it isnt an ameraucana is its slate legs. But It has to have a pea cpmb and beard to be purebred. Does it have a pea comb and beard? But that still dosent explain the brown leakage.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

This is a picture of some Ameraucana chicks from last year.
The comb looks about the same.
I have read in the past that black legs are acceptable on black Ameraucanas.
Some ended up with beards and muffs and other combinations and some just have


the pea comb.
I have only had this breed for a year, and know nearly nothing about chickens.

That look like a box full of easter eggers .

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

That look like a box full of easter eggers .

I agree, looks like a box of EEs to me, too.

I hatched some purebred BBS Ameraucana this year (I usually only hatch EEs and other barnyard mixes) and was struck by how uniform in size, shape, and color the purebred clutch is. I could tell immediately on hatch that they were a "breed" and not mutts. Very different than hatching EEs or other mixes. The Cornish is not the biological mama, obvs.

 

[DeannaA]

Those are so cute. How old are they now?

 

[hdowden]

This is a picture of some Ameraucana chicks from last year.
The comb looks about the same.
I have read in the past that black legs are acceptable on black Ameraucanas.
Some ended up with beards and muffs and other combinations and some just have


the pea comb.
I have only had this breed for a year, and know nearly nothing about chickens.

these are easter eggers not pure ameraucana sorry