Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[pips&peeps]

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So do you have an opinion on my blue Ameraucana? Gold leakage aside, do you like his "lightness" and the lack of crispness on his chest?

it is way to light to be a good specimen as far as color is concerned. It is not easy to get the lacing though, so judges many times don't cut as hard as they should for the lack of lacing.

Walt

I don't think many blue birds shown have the correct blue as indicated in the SOP. I have started a project with some english orps to try and introduce the PG or pattern gene into a blue line to see if I can get some better laced specimens. In my opinion we only have "edging" in our blues.

This is why I like darker blues and breed blue to black, the more black modifiers you have, the darker the edging appears.

 

[pinkwindsong]

I have both true bred Ameracuanas and EE's.. it seams a lot of the problems arising from the differentiation the two breeds, is that hatcheries are continued to be allowed to sell a breed by the WRONG name.. Change needs to be at that base level and education to the public who buys chicks at supply stores, TSC etc that hatchery chicks sold at their store are EE's infact.

In the mundane world when a reputable bussiness sells you a bottle of water and you drink it .. it should be water, not vodka.. yeah they look a like but there is a difference.. seams to me that if the Ameracuana people really want they're breed to stand out and be recognized as a different breed. we all, as owners, need to start a education program to those who sell.. and stop verbally criticizing people who bought the vodka, in the water bottle, They are the ones who have been wronged. its no wonder that they stand up for themselves and rightly so. They are discussing a breed, showing a breed, that they were told by a reputable company is an Ameracauna, NOT their fault or the 4-h'er who through their 4-h extension office was told they had a specific breed of bird.. why would they question their leaders? they wouldn't..

This thread would be better suited to directing their frustration( and I understand the frustration, I am not belittling the frustration level of ameracauna breeders and show'ers at all) in the right direction .. the hatcheries and the store who sell hatchery stock..

I truly hope those of you who are so passionate about this wonderful breed will stand up and start a movement to get the truth out there before the next springs chicks hit the stores and are again sold under the wrong name.

good luck , thank you for listening..

blessed be )O(
pink

 

[pips&peeps]

I think Jeremy (might have been another poster) contacted most, if not all of the hatcheries last year, to ask them to change their advertising on easter eggers. Maybe he can chime in about it when he checks this thread again.

 

[OSUman]

pips&peeps :

I think Jeremy (might have been another poster) contacted most, if not all of the hatcheries last year, to ask them to change their advertising on easter eggers. Maybe he can chime in about it when he checks this thread again.

Haven't EEs been called Ameraucanas longer then Ameraucanas have been a breed?​

 

[jeremy]

pips&peeps :

I think Jeremy (might have been another poster) contacted most, if not all of the hatcheries last year, to ask them to change their advertising on easter eggers. Maybe he can chime in about it when he checks this thread again.

I remember talking about it here on the thread, but it wasn't me who contacted any hatcheries... at least I don't think it was... or if it was, I don't remember doing it.

I don't remember much from last week though.

 

[pips&peeps]

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Haven't EEs been called Ameraucanas longer then Ameraucanas have been a breed?

No the hatcheries were selling their mixed birds as araucanas. I remember as a kid (1980) buying araucanas from a hatchery; and yes, they were easter eggers. (loved my birds)

I don't believe they started calling them ameraucanas until after the founders of the club named our breed and got them accepted.

 

[jeremy]

So since we're talking lacing and Jean brought up English Orps, would this be the type of lacing we're working towards in our Blue Ameraucanas as well?

One of my girls a few months back.

Rather than this?

How do we get that type of lacing though?

Or?

 

[OSUman]

pips&peeps :

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Haven't EEs been called Ameraucanas longer then Ameraucanas have been a breed?

No the hatcheries were selling their mixed birds as araucanas. I remember as a kid buying araucanas from a hatchery and yes they were easter eggers...loved my birds.

I don't believe they started calling them ameraucanas until after the founders of the club named our breed and got them accepted.​

Oh ok, I must have misread that somewhere.

 

[SteveH]

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I remember talking about it here on the thread, but it wasn't me who contacted any hatcheries... at least I don't think it was... or if it was, I don't remember doing it.

I don't remember much from last week though.

Thanks Jeremy, I feel a little better about having either Madcow or Oldztiemers now!

 

[pips&peeps]

Oh Lordie, I don't want to go back a year and sort through this thread....