After doing much reading, I've come to discover that my ameraucana hen is probably not a true ameraucana, but ...
... that being said... an ameraucana by any other name... will still lay a blue/green egg.
I have not been able to find any pictures of other birds similar to the one I have. She's got a black head, and is black from the mid-body to tail, but is gold around the neck and breast & her feathers have a pretty pattern, almost like a golden-laced wyandotte but not exactly. She has dark legs, which I understand are referred to as "green", though they look kinda a greenish-blackish-charcoal color to me.
I would love to post a picture of her, but she's the most camera shy of all my girls. It's like she knows I'm trying to get her picture and runs like heck the minute the camera comes out.
Maybe she's mad because I named her Bertha. LOL.
She was sold to me as an ameraucana, but truth be told, she's probably an Easter Egger. Still, that doesn't bother me because I'm still going to call her an ameraucana, and here's why: My dog--Ginger--she's a mutt, but she's chocolate lab/blue heeler mix mostly (her father was a pure blue heeler, and her mother was a chocolate lab mix). She has chocolate lab coloring, and when I take her to the vet, they classify her as a "lab, chocolate, other", and we refer to her as a "chocolate lab mix". So maybe my ameraucana is "ameraucana, easter egger, other". We can refer to her as "ameraucana mix".
In any case, she's a really pretty bird & I can't wait for her to start laying eggs. I'll post a picture of her as soon as I can get a good one.
... that being said... an ameraucana by any other name... will still lay a blue/green egg.
I have not been able to find any pictures of other birds similar to the one I have. She's got a black head, and is black from the mid-body to tail, but is gold around the neck and breast & her feathers have a pretty pattern, almost like a golden-laced wyandotte but not exactly. She has dark legs, which I understand are referred to as "green", though they look kinda a greenish-blackish-charcoal color to me.
I would love to post a picture of her, but she's the most camera shy of all my girls. It's like she knows I'm trying to get her picture and runs like heck the minute the camera comes out.
Maybe she's mad because I named her Bertha. LOL.
She was sold to me as an ameraucana, but truth be told, she's probably an Easter Egger. Still, that doesn't bother me because I'm still going to call her an ameraucana, and here's why: My dog--Ginger--she's a mutt, but she's chocolate lab/blue heeler mix mostly (her father was a pure blue heeler, and her mother was a chocolate lab mix). She has chocolate lab coloring, and when I take her to the vet, they classify her as a "lab, chocolate, other", and we refer to her as a "chocolate lab mix". So maybe my ameraucana is "ameraucana, easter egger, other". We can refer to her as "ameraucana mix".
In any case, she's a really pretty bird & I can't wait for her to start laying eggs. I'll post a picture of her as soon as I can get a good one.
