Exactly what PC and Gerry said. I am doing my job as Western District Director of the ABC to educate. I don't want her to be embarrassed or upset by someone that won't be tactful or even nice about telling her the same information later. I wasn't attacking her, and if the OP feels that I was, she can tell me and I will apologize, as that was not my intent. But it is something that needs to be said time and time again, because as long as hatcheries keep selling EEs as Ameraucanas, there will be misinformed people thinking that they have something they don't.
Feed stores are just as at fault, because often times on a hatchery's website it will also refer to them as an "Easter Egg" chicken, and explain that they will lay many colors of eggs, etc. And then the feed stores just put up an "Ameraucana" sign with no explanation at all...
There is NOTHING wrong with EEs. What IS wrong is hatcheries misrepresenting their birds and making people think they have something they don't. It's like when someone has a German Shepherd / Lab mix and just calls it a German Shepherd. It won't breed true, it doesn't conform to breed standards, and people with pure German Shepherds would probably call them out on it. Same thing, only worse that some hatcheries sell birds as Ameraucanas that don't even have any Ameraucana blood in them at all.
Feed stores are just as at fault, because often times on a hatchery's website it will also refer to them as an "Easter Egg" chicken, and explain that they will lay many colors of eggs, etc. And then the feed stores just put up an "Ameraucana" sign with no explanation at all...
There is NOTHING wrong with EEs. What IS wrong is hatcheries misrepresenting their birds and making people think they have something they don't. It's like when someone has a German Shepherd / Lab mix and just calls it a German Shepherd. It won't breed true, it doesn't conform to breed standards, and people with pure German Shepherds would probably call them out on it. Same thing, only worse that some hatcheries sell birds as Ameraucanas that don't even have any Ameraucana blood in them at all.