Hi Ameraucana Thread People !
Finally went to open my son's APA American Standard of Perfection 2010 today to see what it said:
I did find my answer to the Varieties recognized: black, blue, buff, silver, blue wheaten, wheaten, brown red, and white (hey, we have 4 of these already !)
Anyways, I was curious about the feet....I don't really look at their feet except I did notice once they do have funny colored legs
yellow soles of foot or toes = BAD = disqualifications
They are so funny with their descriptions: I love it: "expressive eyes"
Then they go on to actually list each color Ameraucana:
and the color of their feet depends on the color Ameraucana they are:
So, for ours: blue - males and females (shanks and toes should be dark slate, bottoms of feet and toes white)
blue wheaten male (slate, bottoms of feet and toes white), blue wheaten female (same, lower thighs blue)
brown red (slate to black, bottoms of feet and toes white)
wheaten (slate, bottom of feet and toes white)
Sounds like gray to me.
Anyways, I don't really look at their feet. My son handles the chickens. All I noticed is that they are funny colored to me.
It's good to know what the standard says, right ?
Our chicken judge friend did come over a couple times to look at them and didn't have anything bad to say about them.
He told him that all his chickens look pretty good.
I can't wait to see what new colors my son will choose to try and get into the standard. I'm going to let him use his BrownRed rooster and his Blue Wheaten one again, but probably with some of those newly decorated hens. He only has 10 Ameraucanas to choose from (we set limits) and probably will give him 2 breeding pens to work with.
Check out our Ameraucana hens. They have very pretty coloring. (Maybe I should put back up the pics of the hens we sold - they were so pretty too - they sold so quick !)
Thanks ~