Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[chicken4prez]

Here is a picture of my Ameraucana Mabel

 

[LaPoulet]

Here is a picture of my Ameraucana Mabel

She's very pretty.

 

[chicken4prez]

She's very pretty.

Thanks! For some reason the picture turned out really really small

 

[pips&peeps]

Here is a picture of my Ameraucana Mabel

Mabel is very pretty, but she is not an ameraucana.

 

[chicken4prez]

Mabel is very pretty, but she is not an ameraucana.

Really?! What is she?

 

[chicken4prez]

While we are here, Can anyone help me with the breed? It might be a mixed

 

[bruceha2000]

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If she doesn't meet the physical specifications (including being one of the APA colors) she is an Easter Egger. She does have the muffs and beard and pea comb so she generally looks like an Ameraucana which is one of the things that is so confusing to people. I GUESS (because I don't have any Ameraucanas and I'm not up on the colors) that her color is possibly one telling point. But I suspect she lays blue or green eggs with that comb.

 

[chicken4prez]

If she doesn't meet the physical specifications (including being one of the APA colors) she is an Easter Egger. She does have the muffs and beard and pea comb so she generally looks like an Ameraucana which is one of the things that is so confusing to people. I GUESS (because I don't have any Ameraucanas and I'm not up on the colors) that her color is possibly one telling point. But I suspect she lays blue or green eggs with that comb.

She lays blueish grennie eggs

So she might be a mix of a EE and a Ameracana?

 

[cyborg]

 
[quote name="pips

If she doesn't meet the physical specifications (including being one of the APA colors) she is an Easter Egger. She does have the muffs and beard and pea comb so she generally looks like an Ameraucana which is one of the things that is so confusing to people. I GUESS (because I don't have any Ameraucanas and I'm not up on the colors) that her color is possibly one telling point. But I suspect she lays blue or green eggs with that comb.

X2, she also has yellow legs.

 

[bruceha2000]

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A standard Ameraucana will only lay some shade of blue, no green.

She COULD be a mix of those but there doesn't have to be any Ameraucana parentage to have the Ameraucana look. The Ameraucana breed was developed FROM birds that we would now call EEs. EEs won't breed true (meaning you won't get the same color or pattern as the parent birds) but if the parents carry the muff, beard, blue genes it is likely that the offspring will have the general appearance of a standard Ameraucana. And if BOTH parents have those genes, I think the offspring WILL have the same characteristics. But you never know what genes are hiding under those feathers and will express themselves in some of the chicks.


Clarification and corrections by those REALLY in the know are welcome