Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[DMRippy]

Oh, and just wondering, this is where I got them:
http://www.cacklehatchery.com/araucana.html

ALL hatcheries sell EE.

 

[Candace69]

The reason I asked is if you look at the page, this is what they say over and over...so this is why I am asking. They at the bottom say they are recognized by the APA? That is where I am confused...

Easter Egg Chickens
(Ameraucanas)

"Miscellaneous Class"

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Easter Egg (Ameraucanas) Standard Chicken Breed Information and Chicken Facts​

Easter Egg (Ameraucanas) Standard Chicken Breed Information
The "Easter Egg Chicken" originally came from Chile in South America, discovered by the Araucana Indians. The true Araucana
chicken is rumpless (tailless) and has a small curling tuft of feathers next to each ear. The Easter Egg Chicken (Ameraucanas) are different because they have a full beard under the beak and have a tail. Cackle hatchery offers for sale the Ameraucana or better described as the "Easter Egg Chicken:. Cackle hatchery's breeding program objectives for the "Easter Egg Chickens" are: to produce chickens with a wide variety of colors, patterns, combinations of colors, with a full beard under the beak and high egg production of colorful eggs. The color of their egg shells vary from pale blue to dark blue, to various shades of green and a few light brownish/pink eggs. Their meat is delicious and it has a taste similar to quail. We do not offer a specific color variety of this breed; however, we do breed for a wide variety of colors.\​

Chicken Facts:

• Weights - Hen -------5 1/2 lbs Rooster----6 1/2 lb
  Pullet-------4 1/2 lbs Cockerel---5 1/2 lbs
• Purpose - Egg Production
• Egg Color - Colored: Green or Blue
• Egg Production - Prolific, 250-300 eggs per year
• Country of Origin -United States
• APA: Yes, Recognized by American Standard of Perfection
• ALBC: Not Listed

 

[BarnGoddess01]

The reason I asked is if you look at the page, this is what they say over and over...so this is why I am asking. They at the bottom say they are recognized by the APA? That is where I am confused...

Easter Egg Chickens
(Ameraucanas)

"Miscellaneous Class"

​

​

Easter Egg (Ameraucanas) Standard Chicken Breed Information and Chicken Facts​

Easter Egg (Ameraucanas) Standard Chicken Breed Information
The "Easter Egg Chicken" originally came from Chile in South America, discovered by the Araucana Indians. The true Araucana
chicken is rumpless (tailless) and has a small curling tuft of feathers next to each ear. The Easter Egg Chicken (Ameraucanas) are different because they have a full beard under the beak and have a tail. Cackle hatchery offers for sale the Ameraucana or better described as the "Easter Egg Chicken:. Cackle hatchery's breeding program objectives for the "Easter Egg Chickens" are: to produce chickens with a wide variety of colors, patterns, combinations of colors, with a full beard under the beak and high egg production of colorful eggs. The color of their egg shells vary from pale blue to dark blue, to various shades of green and a few light brownish/pink eggs. Their meat is delicious and it has a taste similar to quail. We do not offer a specific color variety of this breed; however, we do breed for a wide variety of colors.\​

Chicken Facts:

• Weights - Hen -------5 1/2 lbs Rooster----6 1/2 lb
  Pullet-------4 1/2 lbs Cockerel---5 1/2 lbs
• Purpose - Egg Production
• Egg Color - Colored: Green or Blue
• Egg Production - Prolific, 250-300 eggs per year
• Country of Origin -United States
• APA: Yes, Recognized by American Standard of Perfection
• ALBC: Not Listed

You (and they) are advertising/describing the Easter Egg chicken - which they are admitting. You need to go to the Ameraucana Breeders Club site www.ameraucana.org to see the description of Ameraucanas (not in brackets after Easter Egger) or to the APA's Standard of Perfection.

 

[DMRippy]

The reason I asked is if you look at the page, this is what they say over and over...so this is why I am asking. They at the bottom say they are recognized by the APA? That is where I am confused...

Easter Egg Chickens
(Ameraucanas)

"Miscellaneous Class"

​

​

Easter Egg (Ameraucanas) Standard Chicken Breed Information and Chicken Facts​

Easter Egg (Ameraucanas) Standard Chicken Breed Information
The "Easter Egg Chicken" originally came from Chile in South America, discovered by the Araucana Indians. The true Araucana
chicken is rumpless (tailless) and has a small curling tuft of feathers next to each ear. The Easter Egg Chicken (Ameraucanas) are different because they have a full beard under the beak and have a tail. Cackle hatchery offers for sale the Ameraucana or better described as the "Easter Egg Chicken:. Cackle hatchery's breeding program objectives for the "Easter Egg Chickens" are: to produce chickens with a wide variety of colors, patterns, combinations of colors, with a full beard under the beak and high egg production of colorful eggs. The color of their egg shells vary from pale blue to dark blue, to various shades of green and a few light brownish/pink eggs. Their meat is delicious and it has a taste similar to quail. We do not offer a specific color variety of this breed; however, we do breed for a wide variety of colors.\​

Chicken Facts:

• Weights - Hen -------5 1/2 lbs Rooster----6 1/2 lb
  Pullet-------4 1/2 lbs Cockerel---5 1/2 lbs
• Purpose - Egg Production
• Egg Color - Colored: Green or Blue
• Egg Production - Prolific, 250-300 eggs per year
• Country of Origin -United States
• APA: Yes, Recognized by American Standard of Perfection `Ameraucans are APA approved, EE are not, so not completely correct. You can not show the EE at a APA show the EE coloring would be a DQ at a show.
• ALBC: Not Listed

If you are looking for blue egg layers that lay well EE are great. If you are looking to breed and show Ameraucanas would fit that bill.

 

[Candace69]

Hope you don't feel like I am arguing, as I'm not, only trying to understand. They use the slash, so makes a person think it's interchangeable. Easter Egg/Americana. I did go to that ite and read the standard of perfection, which was why I asked, the only thing I was told that mine didn't have was the "color"....So my question now is, if I have some of the "acceptable" colors, ie wheaton or blue. Would they be the Americana?

 

[Candace69]

...and don't know if you are the ones who started this discussion with me, but I am asking becaese I ordered from there and posted a couple of pics, then was told they weren't americaunas .....which the cackle site said I bought, I thought, due to the slash and it said it was; so I got confused and am trying to understand.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Hope you don't feel like I am arguing, as I'm not, only trying to understand. They use the slash, so makes a person think it's interchangeable. Easter Egg/Americana. I did go to that ite and read the standard of perfection, which was why I asked, the only thing I was told that mine didn't have was the "color"....So my question now is, if I have some of the "acceptable" colors, ie wheaton or blue. Would they be the Americana?

...and don't know if you are the ones who started this discussion with me, but I am asking becaese I ordered from there and posted a couple of pics, then was told they weren't americaunas .....which the cackle site said I bought, I thought, due to the slash and it said it was; so I got confused and am trying to understand.

The Cackle site makes it clear you are buying "Easter Eggers". Unfortunately, they confuse the issue by putting "Ameraucana" in brackets after the name.

Many of us have been where you are and struggled to understand the difference. There is not a thing wrong with Easter Eggers. I have loads of them and continue to make more. Beautiful birds, prolific layers, and they do taste good. But they are not recognized by the APA and, therefore, are not showable. And they are not Ameraucanas.

 

[Candace69]

So question is, if I had some of the correct color, even if they came from cackle, they would be Ameraucana?

 

[Candace69]

So question is, if I had some of the correct color, even if they came from cackle, they would be Ameraucana?

Color is the only issue on my birds?

 

[Goose and Fig]

Cackle does not sell ameraucanas. The only place to get true ameraucanas are from a breeder and possibly sandhill preservation. You cannot order "sexed" ameraucanas anywhere.