These are definitely roos, right?

[catchthewind]

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Thank you for the visual! He has no dark feathers like that at all yet. The breeder actually mentioned those and told me they should start to show up within the next few weeks, but I wasn't sure exactly what she was talking about. In some ways I'm more confused now than when I posted, but I am enjoying the comments and learning lots, so that's good.

The breeder I got the Wyandotte and Australorp from is pretty well known around here and wins shows with her birds all the time. Her BLRW were all a lot darker than this one and I sent her that picture and in her email she sent back she said something about "the pretty little splash".

He was the only one of that colour that she had, out of about 15 Wyandotte chicks. The rest were all a much darker blue or a few were even black around the edges of their feathers. Her older BLRW chicks don't have any white or grey between the brown and blue either, if that makes sense, and have much darker heads than mine. But again, I am pretty clueless and happy to be corrected and learn along the way. I don't think any breeder is infallible.

Interesting to know about the "EE" too. The two EEs (along with the two Orpingtons) were among the first chicks we got, and I didn't know a tenth of what I know now (which is still next to nothing

). I can't remember exactly what the people we got them from said about them, though I clearly remember them saying they should lay olive green eggs and that's what sold me on them. I thought they called them Ameraucana crosses and I just assumed that meant they were actually EEs. I think they said something about crossing a blue egg layer with a brown egg layer to get green eggs, but perhaps I read that somewhere? I don't know. I'm fine just calling them mutts too.

 

[Diamond Wire Farms]

Can you check the back of the "EE"'s legs for vulture hocks? It almost looks like it might be a D'Uccle mix. It would also explain the tail set and coloring (if the father was a mille fluer.) Maybe D'Uccle/BO mix? I don't see Ameracauna/EE in there anywhere either.

 

[catchthewind]

Had to google vulture hocks and nope, I don't think so. Here's a better profile picture of him, excuse the mess, it's my three year old's "dog bed".

And here's our other "EE" just for the record.

 

[Diamond Wire Farms]

Your second EE has the correct comb, but still looks mixed. The stance is very upright. No willow/green legs.

The buff "EE" has a pink single comb, which would make me think roo, but if the mix is with a Leghorn or some other large combed breed, it may still be a girl.

Where did you get the eggs? The crosses are all very interesting and are turning into beautiful chickens.

 

[catchthewind]

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Thanks for the input.

We got them as chicks from a local couple. They had the Lavender Orpingtons, which they keep as a separate flock, and then a bunch of "barnyard mixes" I think they're called. They told me the two yellow chicks (the two above) should lay olive green eggs, and then we also got two darker chicks that each of 9 toes, that she said are Dorking crosses. One of those is black (almost green) with a small amount of brown lacing and the other looks a lot like a Barred Rock but has a fluffy head. They're all very cool looking and I'm quite taken with my mutts.

ETA: Oh, and her stance is probably upright because I had my three year old wave a cloth nearby to get them to stand still while I was taking a picture.

She actually normally tends to hunker down a lot more, but then you can't see her legs at all.