We ordered 25 new chickens a few months ago, and we were supposed to get 10 Buff Orpingtons, 10 Australorps, and 5 Ameruacanas, but we only got 3 Ameruacanas, and 2 of these mystery chickens. Any ideas on what kind they might be?
That is an Easter Egger cockerel - he's just beardless. Easter Eggers are commonly missold as true Ameraucanas but they are not in any way the same breed. I imagine all five of yours are Easter Eggers.
Yep, that is one of your "Ameraucana", really an Easter egger. It's a male, and beardless. Kind of unusual coloring and shape, makes me wonder what they're mixing in the EE breeding pens these days
With the flightiness I've been seeing the past 3 years or so, I'd bet somebody's throwing Leghorns in. My 2012/2013 EEs and prior were all docile as could be... 2014 onward they've been perfectly psychotic in temperament (with exceptions, of course).
I agree that it's an EE roo but it looks like some sort of mix between a rumpless Araucana and a silver laced Wyandotte to me, although undoubtedly not as straightforward as a hybrid of those two.
