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The only breed I haven’t tried that I might enjoy as much as d’Anvers are Modern Game bantams. They seem fun.

For the record, my username is Amer because it used to be AMERAUCANAS4REAL and everyone called me Amer anyways. I used to want Ameraucanas but when I got them I discovered they weren’t my favorite breed. Not that there’s anything wrong with ’em.

Ah. I was only thinking of the Standard size. To me, bantam Ameraucanas are oddly proportioned d’Anvers that lay blue eggs. (D’Anvers are my favorite breed.)

I say could because it would only be 25 percent of the chicks.

Blue and blue or paint and paint could get you black.

I love blue wheaten, silvers, buffs, brown reds, and splashes. Wheatens and blues are nice too. Blacks, whites, and self blue are sort of boring to me. Unfortunately, they often seem to be the most common.

I totally disagree but I respect you and you are entitled to your opinion.

Self blue Ameraucanas are accepted though.

Cool idea, but IMO it would destroy a lot of the original varieties, and breeders would be so divided by trying to introduce new varieties or work on different varieties that they wouldn't be able to work together and improve the breed. The more varieties there are, the more likely it is that a...

It’s possible your rumpless bird was a somatic mutation (a birth defect that cannot be passed on.) A friend of mine got some d’Grubbe from her d’Anvers even though they didn’t carry the rumpless gene. Apparently these hatched from some eggs she discovered her four year old shaking.

Not necessarily, but I don’t think it is an Ameraucana since it appears to have greenish legs.

All breeds have a consistent earlobe color across all varieties.

No, I just put silver since we were talking about a Silver EE.

I used to own Ameraucanas, too, hence my username. But again, earlobe color doesn’t matter. Seeing the earlobes is the problem—if I can see my d’Anvers’ earlobes it means they are missing a lot of beard, lol.

Actually, Ameraucanas should have pale earlobes, but the earlobe color in Ameraucanas doesn’t matter because you shouldn’t see them, anyway. Nobody has selected Ameraucanas based on lobe color.

Newly hatched chicks have yellow/orange legs regardless of if they have a yellow skin gene. Frustrating for me when I need to select for white skin in my cuckoo d’Anvers project.

I thought so too but couldn’t tell if they were green or if I was imagining it so I’m glad you chimed in.

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I like the look of plain duckwing hens though not as much as wheaten and quail hens.

If quail got added to Ameraucana bantams I would be so confused because of d’Anvers. I personally think black, white, blue, self blue, and buff Ameraucana bantam hens look like boring d’Anvers bantams.