Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[ChickNmamma]

Oh ok, yes her legs are green, they said she was a silver, but they were not registered breeders or anything, so who knows, lol. I just hope she's big and healthy and a good layer!!

Well if they said she was a silver.. go look at the adult Silvers in the ABC. If she ends up looking like that - they might be right. However.. if she ends up having yellow skin (check the bottoms of her feet when she grows up).. then she is mixed and not Ameraucana.

However, even if she is an Easter Egger.. she can lay nice blue eggs for you!

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Hopefully they do NOT have green legs. They better have Slate legs. White skin. Yellow skin (Green legs) is a DQ. However, some judges do not know this... its a lot to read and judge in those SOP books.. so not every judge is completely up on every breed.

They are always blue, not green. The lighting may have something to do with it.

okay so what are slate legs? Like polish? It just confuses me that the babies have white legs but the adults have blue(lighting looked a bit green)

 

[salt and pepper]

okay so what are slate legs? Like polish? It just confuses me that the babies have white legs but the adults have blue(lighting looked a bit green)

Slate is the same as blue. Some of the lighter patterns ( wheatens, whites ) are born with white legs ( not yellow ) and the blue pigment comes as the get older.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Slate is the same as blue. Some of the lighter patterns ( wheatens, whites ) are born with white legs ( not yellow ) and the blue pigment comes as the get older.

okay then =) I will have to post a picture of my pullet when she is a bit older to see if anyone thinks she is a true Ameraucana. I know my boy and possible other boy or girl are.

 

[jilliianboyd]

OK so I'm new to having chickens ....and I didn't know that there was a major difference between EE and ameraucanas and I was on the we thread and I realized that what I have Is ameraucanas ....I only have 10 of them we bought 10 females but I think I might have a roo I will post pictures soon and maybe yall can help me identify this they are only around 14 weeks old ..

thanks

 

[jilliianboyd]

this it the one I was wondering about ? Could it be a boy ?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

They are easter eggers.I like the one in the middle. She is very pretty.

 

[jilliianboyd]

And I y'all look at my pictures ...and see in some way that they don't resemble ameraucanas please let me know ....they were bought as pure breads they all have grey or slate colored feet and very cute beards I have a few black and silver ....some of the reddish and black a white one and this one looks a little different could it be a roo ? Their feathers have not fully came in yet but this one has longer neck feathers ???

 

[fowlmouthgirls]

The ones that are partridge colored are not a recognized color by the Ameraucana Breeders Club so they are Easter Eggers according to their breed parameters. I learned this myself today!

 

[Phage]

And I y'all look at my pictures ...and see in some way that they don't resemble ameraucanas please let me know ....they were bought as pure breads they all have grey or slate colored feet and very cute beards

I have a few black and silver ....some of the reddish and black a white one and this one looks a little different could it be a roo ? Their feathers have not fully came in yet but this one has longer neck feathers ???

The description of the colors alone make them non standard colors and therefore technically easter eggers as they will not breed true. Even if the parents were pure bred, mixing colors makes them EEs.
Nothing wrong with EEs

just not ameraucans