Greeneggsnham, you\'ve probably already figured the obvious; what they\'re not saying, probably because they\'ve been breeding long enough to forget us newbies might not know, is that recessive whites hatch as smokey, sometimes nearly blue or lavender colored chicks. Both black parents are most surely split for recessive white, and will continue to pass this trait on if they, or their black chicks, are used to breed in your black flock.................... or sold to someone else as black Ameraucana.