Tailed Araucana and Ameraucana / Rhode Island Red: boys??

[shanshan51]

I actually hatched those two. I sold them as possible pullets.

Georgie (white) is starting to look like a boy for sure. He came from eggs that I ordered from a breeder and the eggs were very large blue with a greenish tint. His sister which I have hatched has tiny tuft on one side and is truely rumpless. I wonder if the breeder was mixing Araucanas and Ameraucanas or EEs together in her pens the more I look at him. Its funny because his sister looks nothing like him her pic is below.



Carrot (the red) - I had both her or his parents. His dad was an EE Rooster and mom was a RIR hen. This I am 100% certain of because I only had two breeding Roos.

Here is a pic of Carrots dad the EE-


Here is a pic of Carrots mom -

 

[shanshan51]

I hope the photos help in their sexing!

 

[BlueCamas]

That's weird about Georgie, maybe a different roo snuck into the pen. That's the only thing that makes sense with the fact that he hatched from a blue egg and that his hatch mate is clearly araucana.
I definitely see the RIR ad EE in Carrot, he has a beard and RIR coloring.

I still vote they are both cockerels.

 

[deedletree]

I spent some extra time sitting with them yesterday, and nothing about Carrot or Georgie looks female to me anymore. These are definitely boys!

I had been fantasizing about keeping them just long enough to get some fertile eggs, especially from Georgie if his genetic background was all blue egg layers. I have a Marans, so i could have olive eggers, and my other girls would make interesting green-egg mixes. However, someone offered to sell me me an Ameraucana hen last night, so that took some of the urgency out of keeping Georgie's blue egg DNA in my flock.

And now after seeing the pic of his sister, I think you could be right, he may have a sneaky dad. His sister is a pretty great Araucana! So, his 100% blue egg heritage is in doubt now, so risking complaints from neighbors over a couple of weeks of crowing isn't looking as tempting as it had. So, these boys will need to go soon.

Thanks for all the input everybody!

 

[FogHorn79]

They both look like hens...I have a simular chicken like the white one that one looks like a Amber link I'll post a picture of mine...The brown might be a mix of Amerucana and RRI cause of the ear muffs..A rooster would have a more defined comb and definatly some spurs on the legs. My Amber links are laying a almost pinkish brown egg. Amerucanas lay a green/blue egg.

 

[Stacykins]

They both look like hens...I have a simular chicken like the white one that one looks like a Amber link I'll post a picture of mine...The brown might be a mix of Amerucana and RRI cause of the ear muffs..A rooster would have a more defined comb and definatly some spurs on the legs. My Amber links are laying a almost pinkish brown egg. Amerucanas lay a green/blue egg.

Since it has been a while since this thread was posted, I am sure the OP knows the sex for sure.

From the original pictures, though, it is easy to tell both are cockerels. Not just from the combs. You can see the pointed neck and saddle feathers beginning to develop, which is not present on hens. Spurs do not begin to grow in very much until the chicken begins to mature, so it can't be used as an early indicator with ease.