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Ameraucana

The Ameraucana was developed in the 70's by a few people who were trying to standardize the Araucana breed. The Ameraucana is easier to breed as there are no complications due to lethal genes. A very detailed history of the Ameraucana can be read at the Ameraucana Breeders Club website. Besides the above color requirements the following are some of the traits Ameraucanas should posess:

{eyes - bay (reddish brown)}
{shanks & feet - slate (blue grey) black accepted on black birds, bottoms of feet white}
{ear lobes - red, pale on females (no white)}
{comb - pea}
{wattles - very small, absent}
{skin - white}
{toes - four}
{muffs & beard - forming three seperate lobes, absence is a DQ}
{egg color - blue, minty green}
{cock weight - 6.5 lbs/cockerel - 5.5 lbs}
{hen weight - 5.5 lbs/pullet - 4.5 lbs}
{full breast, medium back, and tail carried at 45 degrees above horizontal}
{the bird must breed true to color}

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Detail Value
Breed Purpose
Dual Purpose
Comb
Pea
Broodiness
Average
Climate Tolerance
All Climates
Egg Productivity
Medium
Egg Size
Medium
Egg Color
Blue/Green
Breed Temperament
Aggressive,Friendly,Flighty,Easily handled,Calm,Bears confinement well,Quiet,Docile
Breed Colors/Varieties
Black, Blue, Blue Wheaten, Brown Red, Buff, Silver Duckwing, Wheaten and White.  Colors being worked on include Lavender, Splash, Splash Wheaten, Mottled, Salmon, Red Pyle and Black Gold.
Breed Size
Large Fowl

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February 1, 2012 at 11:04 am
dlgd
Reviewed by dlgd
Pros: calm, independent, tolerates all temps
Cons: can't think of any

I own one bantam buff and she is just a sweetie.

No, she doesn't sit on my lap, but she DOES come to my whistle (most of the time.)  She allows me to pick her up sometimes,  and she will "cuddle" once I'm holding her.  Taffy is VERY independent, although not the "head Hen", and NO ONE gives her grief.  

Maybe it's because she's bantam or her color, but the only time she has been flighty (although she CAN fly quite well) has been after her chick was hatched. She settled back down after about a week.  Unless she's molting, she lays eggs regularly and with great efficiency.  No fuss, no bother.

I REALLY want another buff or wheaten.  They seem to have such wonderful personalities.

I did raise her from a chick, so that may be one reason she's so friendly.  But whatever it is, I'm sure glad I have her!

January 26, 2012 at 2:55 pm
frosthazard
Reviewed by frosthazard
Pros: beautiful, blue eggs, yard candy, roos not aggressive, good foragers
Cons: shy, small size, flighty, can get picked if confined with more dominant birds,

Ameraucanas are great birds for someone who's going to keep them for showing, breeding, or pleasure, I don't see them being very good for meat or eggs. The roos seem friendly enough, although one of mine needs to learn to be a little gentler with the ladies, luckily it's more inexperience than aggression.

My Ameraucanas are flighty, they're the only ones I have to worry about jumping up in a tree & escaping into the front yard, but if they do get out they're never far & are easily herded back to where they belong (perhaps they're just smart enough to know all the untouched greens are in the front yard). I attribute this to their smaller size, my big fat birds simply can't make it up into the tree.

Mine are also not as friendly as my other breeds, they rarely get close enough to eat out of my hand and they never jump up on me when I sit down. They seem to kinda do their own thing, but now that they're getting more full-grown they get along well with my other chickens and they all roam the yard together.

January 12, 2012 at 1:38 pm
bantaclear
Reviewed by bantaclear

These are such neat Chickens, I love the colors of my males.

January 12, 2012 at 1:01 pm
fishnet1971
Reviewed by fishnet1971
Pros: beautiful eggs
Cons: skitish

I have only one Ameraucana, but she is a ball. She is on the larger size, and is lacking any kind of beard, muff, etc.  She gives me about 5 eggs per week at 9 months old. She is very flighty most of the time and was hard to tame down.  She is the bottom of my pecking order of 12.  She has a very docile temperment, shy, but when you are quiet with her she will come over and pick at your shoes, pants, jump on your shoulders.  All around a great bird.

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Article: Ameraucana

Chicken Breed Info:

Breed Purpose: Dual Purpose
Comb: Pea
Broodiness: Average
Climate Tolerance: All Climates

General Egg Info:

Egg Productivity: Medium
Egg Size: Medium
Egg Color: Blue/Green

Breed Temperament:

Aggressive,Friendly,Flighty,Easily handled,Calm,Bears confinement well,Quiet,Docile

Breed Colors / Varieties:

Black, Blue, Blue Wheaten, Brown Red, Buff, Silver Duckwing, Wheaten and White. Colors being worked on include Lavender, Splash, Splash Wheaten, Mottled, Salmon, Red Pyle and Black Gold.

Breed Details:

I have been breeding for several years and have found them to be anywhere on the spectrum from personable, to shy and always entertaining. The best layers are the black and blue varieties. The most personable are the wheatens and blue wheatens. Whites and buffs are very easy going. Silvers, along with black and blue can be flighty. I have found that if you raise the more flighty birds in a large brooder or in smaller numbers it tends to make them more receptive to humans. The blue, black, wheaten and blue wheaten varieties, in my opinion have the nicest egg color. They are good layers and do not drop off in production sharply after their second year like many other breeds.

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