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There's no Birchen Ameraucanas, the Wheaten, did it look exactly like the Wheatens you've seen on this thread? Were their legs green or blue? And "light gray" - Doesn't sound like Ameraucanas to me, sorry. Crossing a bunch of unknown colors is what people do with Easter Eggers.
Sorry, the guy misled you. They're still beautiful, but in no way Ameraucanas.
Whittni, I too have been taken and misled, I thought I had the color thing down .. but nope still got 3 EE's and one ameraucana, of the 4 she told me were true. I looked at their feet. for color and all, right colored feet.. right comb.. then went to the ameraucana association home website where they have pics.. and nope they were EE's and roos on top of that. Its such a learning experience when your looking for a breed that has such a close "cousin" Just remember there really are not many color variations to Ameracauna's if they have multiple colors on them chances are not true ameraucana's, if they have mixed colors probably not, if there is red in their wings.. it's a roo.. go to the web site and really study the colors that are allowed.. Good luck Whittni, at least you'll have pretty yummy eggs.. just keep looking and maybe even print out pics of the allowed colors and patterns and take them with you to the breeders place and match them to the pics and standards. that way youll be happy and know you haven't been misled.
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I too was misled even being fairly well informed prior. I tried to get some blue wheatens and the parent stock that I was shown seemed right, didn't check the bottoms of their feet but their legs were the right color. Had correct comb, beards and muffs. The 4 that I bought were just starting to feather in. They looked right at the time but now the color is a tiny bit off, a tad bit to dark in the girls, and the bottoms of their feet don't look white to me but they don't look really yellow either. So I have 4 very expensive easter eggers. Last time I buy local stupid people around here all think the 3 breeds are the same anyway.
There's no Birchen Ameraucanas, the Wheaten, did it look exactly like the Wheatens you've seen on this thread? Were their legs green or blue? And "light gray" - Doesn't sound like Ameraucanas to me, sorry. Crossing a bunch of unknown colors is what people do with Easter Eggers.
Sorry, the guy misled you. They're still beautiful, but in no way Ameraucanas.
Whittni, I too have been taken and misled, I thought I had the color thing down .. but nope still got 3 EE's and one ameraucana, of the 4 she told me were true. I looked at their feet. for color and all, right colored feet.. right comb.. then went to the ameraucana association home website where they have pics.. and nope they were EE's and roos on top of that. Its such a learning experience when your looking for a breed that has such a close "cousin" Just remember there really are not many color variations to Ameracauna's if they have multiple colors on them chances are not true ameraucana's, if they have mixed colors probably not, if there is red in their wings.. it's a roo.. go to the web site and really study the colors that are allowed.. Good luck Whittni, at least you'll have pretty yummy eggs.. just keep looking and maybe even print out pics of the allowed colors and patterns and take them with you to the breeders place and match them to the pics and standards. that way youll be happy and know you haven't been misled.
)O(
Pink
I too was misled even being fairly well informed prior. I tried to get some blue wheatens and the parent stock that I was shown seemed right, didn't check the bottoms of their feet but their legs were the right color. Had correct comb, beards and muffs. The 4 that I bought were just starting to feather in. They looked right at the time but now the color is a tiny bit off, a tad bit to dark in the girls, and the bottoms of their feet don't look white to me but they don't look really yellow either. So I have 4 very expensive easter eggers. Last time I buy local stupid people around here all think the 3 breeds are the same anyway.
