Is this a splash ameraucana?

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This is one of my 1wk old chicks from Meyer Hatchery. I am pretty sure it is my splash ameraucana, but the comb is throwing me off. Thank you!
 

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I see barring on the chick. So most likely not your Ameraucana, also the fact it has a single comb.
Could be an Easter Egger, or Olive Egger.
 
Agree with @MysteryChicken. And most hatcheries don’t sell true purebred ameraucanas. They sell Easter Eggers that they call ameraucanas so they can get more money out of the chicks.
Meyer's carries true Ameraucanas, sometimes they do substitutions if requested if there's a bad hatch.

They got Blue, Black Splash, & recently added Lavender Ameraucanas to their list.

They gave me a Black Ameraucana as a substitute for a breed I wanted, Easter Eggers had a bad hatch, so they replaced with some from their color egg layer assortment.
 
This is another chick from the same place that I also suspect of being a splash ameraucana.
 

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