Easter Egger, Ameraucana and Araucana: What's The Difference? ChicknsRock's Guide To Telling Them Ap

Nice article with beautiful pictures.

You have a pretty nice start for an article here, but there are a few corrections that should be made. There's a lot of confusion about these breeds, like you say, and so furthering that confusion is not going to help with the problem.

First, Easter-eggers don't necessarily have to have a beard or muffs, and many are clean-faced. Because they are essentially mixes, they can have any feather color and lay any kind of egg, not just green, blue, and white. Many Easter-eggers lay brown eggs, as a matter of fact.

Next, under Ameraucanas, you have listed that they can sometimes lay brown or olive eggs. This is absolutely not correct. Ameraucanas should only lay blue eggs. Also, the picture you have up as an Ameraucana hen is actually an Easter-egger hen. She has green legs, a big no-no for Ameraucanas, and she is not a standardized color. The chicks are also Easter-egger chicks. The only Ameraucana picture on this article is the one of the rooster.

Lastly, Araucanas do not have muffs. They should only have the tufts on the sides of their heads, or be clean faced. They will never have a beard like the Ameraucana. Because the chick in the picture under Araucanas has a beard and doesn't appear to be a specific color, it looks like it, too, is an Easter-egger chick.

Both the Araucana Club of America and the Ameraucana Breeders Club have pictures of the standardized colorations of these birds if you want to take a look at them and confirm. Araucanas are here: http://www.araucana.net/Varieties/Araucana_Varieties.htm Ameraucanas are here: http://ameraucana.org/scrapbook.html

Thank you for the information, I didn't realize I made so many mistakes.

Don't be discouraged! There's a lot of misinformation out there on this topic! Now that you've updated it, it looks like you have a nice, simple overview about the differences between these guys. Great job!

Thanks! I'm glad it's somewhat better than what I posted first!