Ameraucana or Easter Egger?

[hdowden]

shes an very beautiful ee

 

[Marissa]

Thanks for the information! Looks like she's an Easter Egger!

 

[missnu01]

Check out http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Arau/BRKAraucanas.html for info.

So Auracanas have ear tufts, and no tail and lays blue eggs? While an Ameraucana has a beard and muff, and no ear tufts, and has a tail and lays green or blue eggs...While an easter egger is some sort of mix that lays different shades of egg...
Yes?
I want a few EEs.

 

[hdowden]

What are the major differences between Ameraucana and Araucana chickens?
Both breeds lay eggs with shells colored various shades of blue, have pea combs, and should have red earlobes. Beyond that few similarities exist in specimens meeting the requirements of recognized poultry standards. Perhaps 99 percent of chickens sold as Araucanas (or Ameraucanas) by commercial hatcheries are actually mongrels (aka Easter Egg chickens), meeting the requirements of neither breed.
According to the American Poultry Association (APA), the Araucana breed must be rumpless (no tail) and have ear tufts. Ear tufts are clumps of feathers growing from small tabs of skin usually found at or near the region of the ear openings. This feature is unique in the U.S. to the Araucana breed. This trait is nearly always lethal to unhatched chicks when inherited from both parents. Tufted Araucanas, therefore, are always genetically impure, i.e., they don't breed true and will always produce a percentage of "clean-faced" offspring.
The Ameraucana breed, on the other hand, has a tail and sports muffs and beard in the facial area. These characteristics are true-breeding. Other requirements of both breeds may be found in the APA's Standard of Perfection and in the American Bantam Association's (ABA) Bantam Standard.

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What are Easter Egg chickens?
The Ameraucana Breeders Club defines an Easter Egg chicken or Easter Egger as any chicken that possesses the blue egg gene, but doesn’t fully meet any breed descriptions as defined in the APA and/or ABA standards. Further, even if a bird meets an Ameraucana standard breed description, but doesn’t meet a variety description or breed true at least 50% of the time it is considered an Easter Egg chicken.

http://www.ameraucana.org/index.html

 

[missnu01]

Hmmm...interesting...