What breed is he?

[Sekmet]

Hope everyone has been enjoying the holidays. Obviously, I need some help. This guy is around ten months. I hatched him as a Jersey Giant, but he doesn't look anything like that except for his size. The entire clutch looks like this so I'm not sure if they are a mix. Since they all look alike I was thinking they might be a breed.

Thanks in advance.

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

He's very handsome. He looks like a Blue Ameraucana!

 

[SmiYa0126]

Ooh, I love these! I call them lumberjack chickens unofficial term.

 

[NatJ]

I hatched him as a Jersey Giant, but he doesn't look anything like that except for his size. The entire clutch looks like this so I'm not sure if they are a mix. Since they all look alike I was thinking they might be a breed.

What color were the eggs? (White, Brown, blue, green, especially light or dark shade of one of those colors.)

He looks like a Blue Ameraucana!

I agree that is what he looks like, although he could be an Easter Egger or a mix of some kind. Egg color might help figure it out (Ameraucana = blue eggs, Easter Egger should lay blue or green but can hatch from any color depending on what kind of mixing is going on.)

 

[fluffycrow]

I don't think anyone would mistake a pure Blue ameraucana with a Jersey giant, especially the seller. I think this is a very type-ey EE, since I think I see some leakage. What colour egg did he come out of? This will be very telling of his ancestry

 

[JedJackson]

To me he doesn't look like a purebred Ameraucana, but probably a direct cross of that breed. His comb is a little off, and so is his coloring. Pretty handsome guy though.

 

[Sekmet]

What color were the eggs? (White, Brown, blue, green, especially light or dark shade of one of those colors.)



I agree that is what he looks like, although he could be an Easter Egger or a mix of some kind. Egg color might help figure it out (Ameraucana = blue eggs, Easter Egger should lay blue or green but can hatch from any color depending on what kind of mixing is going on.)

 

[Sekmet]

They were light brown eggs

 

[fluffycrow]

They were light brown eggs

If he came out of a light brown egg, then there is no way he's a pure ameraucana. He's a good looking EE

 

[NatJ]

They were light brown eggs

Then he is definitely not a pure Ameraucana.

I would say he is either an Easter Egger or just a mix.
(By Easter Egger, I mean a chicken with the gene for blue or green eggs. A chicken hatched from a brown egg could inherited the blue egg gene from his father but not from his mother that laid the brown egg. By "just a mix," I mean any other kind of mixed chicken, that does not have the gene for blue/green eggs.)