It would be very unethical . And probably not the best interest of the club either. We all have morals to upstand. Did they get permission from the photographer to use these photos for their website?
The standard calls for sky blue.Some projects and some bloodlines are more greenish.None should be olive.Egg color selection should be a priority.
Beards should be visible at hatch.Tufts and rump less are araucana traits.
No, Ameraucanas do not need to have blue eggs to be pure. They can have blue/green or white or even tan eggs and still be pure Ameraucanas. The body and colors make the breed - not the eggs. HOWEVER - the breed was created around a blue egg gene - so many people breed for the blue eggs - so you are more likely to get blue or blue/green than any other color.
Two things could be going on here. Some birds have good beards when born but as the new feathers come in the beards fall behind on the growth. It can look like they don't have beards until they get their final feathers - but the gene is there. Another thing that has happened in some breeders (but they tell their customers) is that they have has some clean faced birds hatch out because some of their flock (including the rooster) has only one bearded gene. So unbearded can happen.
Not ALL of them would have tail feathers and beards. Some have missing tails or beards or both.Genetics sometimes play havoc on breeders sometimes. Do you have pictures?
