Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Caitlin_VT]

You can buy one from the Ameraucana Breeders Club.

http://www.ameraucana.org/

I don't really need two.. Just wondering if someone who had purchased them wanted to sell one!

 

[dstokely]

I drove over 3 hours to buy my Ameraucana pullet because I couldn't find any purebred ones locally. It's amazing what people will try to pass off to make a buck! And if it weren't for this site I would have bought a mutt!

Mutts are beautiful too! But, I also wanted the pure Ameraucanas as well.

 

[FVRM]

I don't really need two.. Just wondering if someone who had purchased them wanted to sell one!

I need one also maybe we can split the cost. I can order it and send one to you or you can order it and send one to me. We can send money to each other with paypal. Let me know if you want to do this

 

[Caitlin_VT]

I need one also maybe we can split the cost. I can order it and send one to you or you can order it and send one to me. We can send money to each other with paypal. Let me know if you want to do this

Sure, either way is fine.

 

[DMRippy]

In fact DM Rippy....I remember now that you helped me locate a breeder that had purebred Ameraucanas!
Thanks! She's a great hen!

Glad you found some!

 

[johnderosa1]

Well what do you have with a pea comb ? In the USA we went with the blue egg pea comb link . I am one of the original breeders that helped create the breed and get it accepted into the standard. EE are considered a mixed breed but they were around before Ameraucanas . Our club history says we created Ameraucana from Araucana but at that time anything that laid blue eggs was considered a Araucana . Many traits were borrowed from the hatchery birds . Araucana the Easter Egg chicken is how many were sold . True Araucana are rumples and tufted . Tufts are lethal in pure form and rumples have a fertility problem due to the fact that there is no tail to lift during mating . So we chose tails beards and pea combs . There were only 6 breeders at the APA qualifying meet . I was one of those breeders . We did this in a span of abut 10 years . Tell me what you have readily available to borrow from and I can help .

Jerry, great post (as always). Very interesting history. I had "arucaunas " back in the late seventies when i was a kid. Some were probably arucaunas; rumpless and probably tufts, many were easter eggers for sure with beards, muffs and tails. They looked pretty much like the standard easter eggers that you see posted here all the time. Egg color ranged from pure blue to green and pink... Same as today. My nostalgia for those "arucaunas" led me to getting my first "ameraucanas" aka easter eggers, 3 years ago and now to the blue, black and lavender ameraucanas I have now.

 

[8isenuff]

Well what do you have with a pea comb ? In the USA we went with the blue egg pea comb link . I am one of the original breeders that helped create the breed and get it accepted into the standard. EE are considered a mixed breed but they were around before Ameraucanas . Our club history says we created Ameraucana from Araucana but at that time anything that laid blue eggs was considered a Araucana . Many traits were borrowed from the hatchery birds . Araucana the Easter Egg chicken is how many were sold . True Araucana are rumples and tufted . Tufts are lethal in pure form and rumples have a fertility problem due to the fact that there is no tail to lift during mating . So we chose tails beards and pea combs . There were only 6 breeders at the APA qualifying meet . I was one of those breeders . We did this in a span of abut 10 years . Tell me what you have readily available to borrow from and I can help .

Wow...created the Ameraucana. How wonderful! Do you have any knowledge of the Silkied Ameraucanas that have popped up?

 

[jerryse]

Wow...created the Ameraucana. How wonderful! Do you have any knowledge of the Silkied Ameraucanas that have popped up?

I have seen pictures and for sale auctions . The original breeder claims no silkie blood was used . I believe it was a mutation . I had a line of large silvers many years ago that would throw a odd silkie like mutation sometimes . It was not true silkie feathers but they looked kind of stringy due to few or no connecting barbs in the feather . I later read about this mutation in a genetic book . Mutations do pop up on occasion .

 

[8isenuff]

I have seen pictures and for sale auctions . The original breeder claims no silkie blood was used . I believe it was a mutation . I had a line of large silvers many years ago that would throw a odd silkie like mutation sometimes . It was not true silkie feathers but they looked kind of stringy due to few or no connecting barbs in the feather . I later read about this mutation in a genetic book . Mutations do pop up on occasion .

Did your silkie like mutations that were kinda stringy look like the Silkied Ameraucanas? The ends of the feathers on mine are pretty stringy and they aren't really like the Silkie breed, but more "stringy" like you've said.


Can I quote you elsewhere on your previous comments?

 

[jerryse]

Did your silkie like mutations that were kinda stringy look like the Silkied Ameraucanas? The ends of the feathers on mine are pretty stringy and they aren't really like the Silkie breed, but more "stringy" like you've said.


Can I quote you elsewhere on your previous comments?

Yes that is what the wings looked like . I always culled them early . Never kept any to adult . That one even looks silver . Yes you can quote me . I will look in my book and see if I can find the article .