Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Goose and Fig]

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Personally, I love the label "non-standard" Ameraucanas being used to describe chickens that come from "pure" Ameraucana stock but don't conform to a color standard. When I'm looking for birds, I consider these to be very different from the Easter Eggers who are any combo of Ameraucana and other chicken breeds altogether. It's a distinction that comes up over and over again in real life, so it just helps to have a quick way to verify what type of chicken we are talking about.

You can have non-standard colors of Ameraucanas, or really faulty colored ones, but when hatcheries say non-standard ameraucanas they mean they have mixed blood.

Holy crap- we aren't getting the ice or snow but it's been really dark all day and the wind is blowing something awful out there.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Personally, I love the label "non-standard" Ameraucanas being used to describe chickens that come from "pure" Ameraucana stock but don't conform to a color standard. When I'm looking for birds, I consider these to be very different from the Easter Eggers who are any combo of Ameraucana and other chicken breeds altogether. It's a distinction that comes up over and over again in real life, so it just helps to have a quick way to verify what type of chicken we are talking about.

Can the Ameraucana Breeders Club copyright the name Ameraucana and thus limit it's use?

But if they spell it differently, which they do, it doesn't count,

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Can the Ameraucana Breeders Club copyright the name Ameraucana and thus limit it's use?

But if they spell it differently, which they do, it doesn't count,

Yep! It's like labeling a food as "Lite" instead of light. Means two different things as far as the FDA is concerned.

 

[TK Poultry]

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I know I just forget to change it. Oh well. I thought I could divert attention from the EE discussion but I don't think I accoplished much. What do you think of them?

 

[Goose and Fig]

I love the splash girl in the second pic.
Poor birds- I had to keep them all in today except the geese. When I saw the turkey pen's metal roof fly across the garden I figured I better put them in too. Yikes!

 

[Illia]

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I know I just forget to change it. Oh well. I thought I could divert attention from the EE discussion but I don't think I accoplished much. What do you think of them?

I really like them. The black cockerel has a rather small tail, but otherwise from what I can tell, nice birds.

Not the biggest fan of the splash though, but it's mainly her coloring. . . I'm a snob about splash coloring. The bird must not be smutty or sooty looking, and must have definite white vs black or blue markings like a pinto or dalmatian chicken.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Me too! Love her pretty blue coloring!!!

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

I must say, all of you all's birds are beautiful. I was informed by Cynthia (moderator) that even if I got Ameraucanas from McMurray Hatchery and they are laying blue eggs, they are not Ameraucanas..they are EE's. All this time I thought Ameraucanas and Aracaunas layed blue eggs, the EE laid greenish colored eggs....Boy did I feel stupid after that e-mail. I am glad she told me. I have telling ppl. I have both. Now I know better and I will stop it. I have EE's is what I will say. The reason I am saying this is because all of you have spent lots of time and energy and money in raising the proper bird and someone like me who really didn't know comes along and says the wrong thing to ppl.. I apologize for me and for everyone else that doesn't or didn't know any better. If it is a true Ameraucana, it will have blueish colored legs also...right??? I think I read that somewhere here. if not, please correct me again. I am all for learning the difference.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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I can't wait to see that roo when he fills out!! I really like your splash girl...she makes me wanna squeeze her!!

From what I can see from these pics the beards on the black girls are really nice!
Good job finding nice birds Tyler!!!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Pray for me... my Ameraucana eggs are in the mail!!!

I hope they get here ok!!!