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Quote: I second everything klf said, and would only add that in general, it is "safer" for us to call everything that comes from a hatchery as an "Ameraucana" an EE, because you literally never know what you are going to get, and like klf said, they will rarely, if ever, breed true. Example...

Quote: Well, it isn't that they are "bad" per se...they are great for someone wanting birds for laying and don't want to pay a lot. For any breed that someone would want to do serious breeding toward the Standard of Perfection, they just have to come from a private breeder. It's not just...

Quote: No, a private breeder is someone who has select stock that (hopefully) breeds toward the betterment of the breed, and breeds toward the breed description in the Standard of Perfection. A hatchery hatches chicks from whatever stock they have, it's about quantity, not quality...

Quote: It's really not their fault. The hatcheries sell them as "Ameraucanas". Anyone buying them from a hatchery gets fooled, not just the feed stores.