The True Truth: How to tell an Easter Egger from an Ameraucana. Even if you think you have an Ameraucana, do check!

[TheOddOneOut]

She isn't mine yet. This is what the lady sent me. She lays blue eggs.

Oh, ok.
Any other pics?
If she was in full daylight, standing, I would be able to tell what she was.
I would say her coloration is splash, but I can’t be sure.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Also there’s an egg there. View attachment 2497062

I noticed that! LOL

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Oh, ok.
Any other pics?
If she was in full daylight, standing, I would be able to tell what she was.
I would say her coloration is splash, but I can’t be sure.

She might have daylight pics.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Oh, ok.
Any other pics?
If she was in full daylight, standing, I would be able to tell what she was.
I would say her coloration is splash, but I can’t be sure.

Are you thinking EE?

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I noticed that! LOL

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Are you thinking EE?

I’m not sure.
Once again, nothing strongly points to her not being impure, but her color seems weird (Too brassy for lavender, I think...and too colored for splash? Maybe it’s the lighting.)
But idk.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

I’m not sure.
Once again, nothing strongly points to her not being impure, but her color seems weird (Too brassy for lavender, I think...and too colored for splash? Maybe it’s the lighting.)
But idk.

I think I'll ask if she has more pics. I'd love a purebred Ameraucana.

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

I bought my pullet "Rey" from a feed store. She didn't look like the other chicks (why I picked her) but she was being sold as an Australorp (sp?). I don't recall how much I spent on her because I was so certain she was an Australorp. She never grew out of her puffy cheeks so I made a post questioning her breed.
I am pretty positive she is an EE. She is 35 weeks old and hasn't started laying like my other hens.

 

[lyleg5895]

Quick update on my EE/Cochin mixes
The rooster has turned out to be a big handsome fella with iridescent green mixed into his barred coloration. The hen did turn out to be an olive egger after all. I think the tiny brown egg I found earlier this winter was actually one of our mama hens starting back up as I haven't found any since. Here is picture of them now (with mama photo bombing in the foreground) along with a picture of her first egg. It's not quite olive but it's pretty none the less.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Quick update on my EE/Cochin mixes
The rooster has turned out to be a big handsome fella with iridescent green mixed into his barred coloration. The hen did turn out to be an olive egger after all. I think the tiny brown egg I found earlier this winter was actually one of our mama hens starting back up as I haven't found any since. Here is picture of them now (with mama photo bombing in the foreground) along with a picture of her first egg. It's not quite olive but it's pretty none the less.
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Awesome!!!!