Ameraucana/Araucana/EasterEgger.... how to clear up confusion?

[Kev]

Actually I think that's another bonus for EE- you can breed them without worrying about them laying the "correct" color or even deliberately mix them for a continued variety of egg colors. Nothing prettier than a nest with several different colors!

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Cooool! What you doing with yours?

Another thing to do with EE: if enough people develop a consistently breeding color/pattern and they otherwise match the general type of Ameraucana, it could become possible to get the club to recognize a new color.. still so surprised there are very few accepted colors in that breed!

Get busy!

 

[pips&peeps]

still so surprised there are very few accepted colors in that breed!

There are eight colors as of now and that is quite a few. How may colors of RIR, BR's, leghorns, wyandottes or Orpingtons are there that are APA recognized?? All of those breeds are alot older too.

I believe lavender and splash will be recognized in the next couple of years. There are breeders working on black gold, blue silver and mottled to name a few, but they are working hard on that "breeding true" thing.....

They also can be shown in the AOV category, if you have a description of what the color is supposed to look like.​

 

[Kev]

It's very few in comparsion to the range EE come in and also considering the popularity. I was very surprised at Wheaten being recognized but not black breasted red... a huge portion of EE are of this color or variations of. Why isn't Splash already accepted? Everybody knows already that's simply the Blue in pure form of this gene.

Old English bantams are pretty much strictly a pet/show breed and they come in a tremendous range of colors and patterns, which I think helps that breed quite a lot. There's "something" in that breed to strike most people's fancy. Ameraucana fans just don't have the same range/option.. boosting the numbers of accepted colors and patterns will make this breed more popular I think.. and gain some ground "lost" to EE. Perhaps if Amers got more popular with more color variety, the hatcheries will start to sell Ameraucana color varieties and label them as such.

The other breeds mostly are for production, so I am not as surprised their color range has been limited.. those breeds appeal to people mainly interested in production. I have noticed Wyandottes seem to be rising in show popularity- and it seems there are several working on developing new colors in this breed. Seems to me indicates again that rising popularity comes with rising variety of colors.

Don't get me wrong, what's already accepted are quite nice looking birds just seems a huge disperancy between accepted colors vs the variety of EE..

It's very exciting to know two new colors may be added soon.. Lavenders just might tempt me to get a line of Ameraucanas! Really like that color, think this color on the Amer type would be quite pleasing to the eye.. (see, adding a new color would add new fans/memers..

 

[pips&peeps]

Kev,

Yes, there are numerous colors of ee's, but in my opinion there is no pattern to them. They are just random colors that pop up.

There is no selection to the breeding process. You might think that you see bbr in alot of the ee's, but is it a true bbr or just a similar pattern? This is where the problem lies, it takes certain genes to make a true color pattern.

 

[hinkjc]

It's very few in comparsion to the range EE come in

EEs do not have any "standard" colors. That's why it is not a recognized breed - it is a cross bred chicken that can look like anything. There is no rhyme or reason to the color an EE will turn out to be. By breed standards, it should "breed true" for 5 years, I believe, to be considered into the standard of perfection. You will never find that in a cross bred chicken like the EE.

Edited...Jean, you and I think alike..haha

Jody​

 

[SusanJoM]

So, what do you think are the chances that these

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will become another accepted color of Ameraucana?

Susan

 

[pips&peeps]

There would have to be breeders willing to breed it, a standard description of it, the birds themselves would have to be of better quality, and they have to be shown.

Just to pick out a few things I see:

The combs look like rose instead of pea, they could be pea, but they look very large.

They have wattles and the earlobes on the roo is white and the standard calls for red.

I would think that the club would have to get regular partridge accepted before blue partridge would be accepted.

 

[SusanJoM]

I am so glad you were right there when I asked that question, Jean.
I would never have noticed those defects, or thought about the fact that partridge isn't even accepted yet.

Thanks for the education.

Susan

 

[Guitartists]

I'm still educating myself about genetics

No sense in wasting my time on something that can't be done

But I know I defintely want to play with patterns and feather type along with that blue egg gene.

I'm hoping that before I die I create my own breed of chicken!

 

[stagedragon]

Shoot, my EE chicks sell like hotcakes, I think they sound more fun and exotic than the other two. Is anyone else trying to work on a feather legged EE? I crossed my EE roo with my Light Brahma hens and the chicks are so cute, I love the chubby cheek look of the EE's anyway and then you add those furry legs