The labeling thing has been a bone of contention for ages.
I have this hen who came from a BBS Ameraucana flock (saw the stock and am very familiar with BBS Ameraucanas), hatched from a lovely blue, not green, egg. She has no beard, has spurs, lays a brown egg, can be aggressive, and as she grew, it became apparent that she had Sumatra influence somewhere way back in her lineage. And, though it probably has no bearing on breed, she has terrible eyesight. She's an obvious throwback to some fence jumping Sumatra rooster many breeders ago, not the breeder who gave me the eggs. I don't even like to call her an EE. I call her my weirdo Ameraucana with Sumatra lineage. What the heck would you call an accident of genetics like Tiny, really? Genetics are funny things, little trick-playing gremlins.
Here is a spur she lost recently:
