Ameracauna chicks and mature chickens

[pips&peeps]

McMurray does not sell ameraucanas, they sell easter eggers. Any hatchery sells easter eggers.

Ameraucanas should lay blue or blueish/minty green eggs only.

Here is a page from the Ameraucana Breeders Club with lots of pertinent information:

http://ameraucana.org/faq.html

 

[Moriah]

pips&peeps :

McMurray does not sell ameraucanas, they sell easter eggers. Any hatchery sells easter eggers.

Ameraucanas should lay blue or blueish/minty green eggs only.

Here is a page from the Ameraucana Breeders Club with lots of pertinent information:

http://ameraucana.org/faq.html

Im not quite sure that I am reading your tone correctly, so I am going to try not to inflame anything here.

I understand that commercial hatcheries usually give a different name for what they are selling, but there are other's who have gotten actual ameraucana's from them.

By my understanding from the research I have done on the variations of the colored egg layers, most of my chickens fit into the description of an ameraucana, as defined by the breeder's club you posted a link for. Since they are not of egg laying age yet, I have no idea what color of eggs I will have.

I do admit I may be wrong, on what the egg color extent may be for that breed, as different websites have differing opinions on characteristics of these particular birds.​

 

[pips&peeps]

All commercial hatcheries sell easter eggers. There is no possible way to get a real ameraucana from a hatchery. No tone is implied, I'm just stating a fact.

There is a lot of time and space involved in raising real ameraucanas as most of the colors must be bred to like colors and hatcheries are not willing to do that. They are out for a quick and easy buck, therefore, throwing all birds in together.

The only website's opinion you should take to heart about ameraucanas is the Ameraucana Breeders Club as the members there are the founders of the breed and are the people who have made the decisions on the breed standard.

Here is a link to the pictures of what the eight recognized varieties are to look like. Alot of people say, "Well, my bird looks similar to that.." but they must look almost exactly like the photos with very little variation.

http://ameraucana.org/scrapbook.html

One of the big things that people overlook is that the bird must breed true, which means if the bird is white and bred to a white bird the resulting offspring will be white.

 

[speckledhen]

Jean is correct. I have never seen a true Ameraucana from one of the big hatcheries. And you will never find an Araucana from one, either. Those are in the hands of dedicated breeders across the country and there aren't really many of those.
I catch every shipment of Ideal's "Ameraucanas" at the feedstore. There never has been one Ameraucana in any of them.
Easter Eggers can lay any color from blue, green, blue-green, green-blue, pinky tan or just plain old brown. A true Ameraucana will never lay brown.
We contacted Welp once because of their ridiculous designation "Ameraucanas/Araucanas", and got the run-around. It was obvious they had no clue about Ameraucanas, Araucanas or Easter Eggers. They insisted I was talking about show quality birds and just didn't get it or they did and didn't want to admit to what they were selling.

 

[Chicken7777]

Okay i see know so true ameracaunas like the ones pictures in teh ameracauna club ONLY lay blue, green or pink eggs right? so no whites, no browns........has anyone that has bough from ideal ever gotten brown, white eggs from their easter eggers?(or so they call them "ameracaunas")

I see here that in the Ameracauna Club it says that if you breed from the same type, like white with white it should come out as white(the offsprings) so does that not happen with easter eggers?

 

[pips&peeps]

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Ameraucanas are supposed to only lay blue/minty green eggs. There are some varieties that still need work and the eggs are more on the green side. Pinks are actually just very light brown. I have heard of lots of people getting light brown eggs or tan eggs from Ideal.

Easter Eggers being a mixed breed have sorted backgrounds, so there is no telling what color genes they carry, so they do not breed true.

 

[ItsSuzzie]

Jean,

I admire your knowledge on Ameraucana's and you are the one who took the 'I' out of my miss-spelling...fact, you did. I have read and researched and even prepared pages off of my member page.

And after reading, I went outside and checked legs...lol. Not slate colored, your outa here. I have a blue wheaten Roo who is just beautiful, green legs, don't want that in the breeding gene for hatching.

So even though I have weeded them out, I still have easter eggers all because they came from Welp hatchery? I can not tell you about the egg color cause the girls have not started laying yet.

Can you take a peek at my member page, into my Coupe 4 and see if they are indeed Easter Eggers. I would appreciate you help.

Sorry Blue Boy, out of that coupe.

 

[pips&peeps]

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Suzzie,

Your birds are all easter eggers. Commercial hatcheries do not sell real ameraucanas. The are not any of the standard colors either. This is the easiest way to determine if they are ee's or not. Just having slate legs does not make them ameraucanas.

Domino, Dusk and Shadow look like cockerels to me....

 

[geareduplyn]

Hey Jean... Do you sometimes feel like that we are beating our heads against the wall for nothing?

 

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