Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[PaintedFeathers]

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!

An Ameraucana that is an odd color is still an Ameraucana? I have silkies and if a silkie is an odd color, it is still a silkie and you can show them as AOV?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

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 ???

I think you are right that this one is probably a rooster. Where did you buy the chicks from? If it was a feed store or a hatchery, even if they were labeled as pure bred they are EEs, as they are not bred toward a specific color variety in the hatcheries. Often they are labeled "Americana" or "Ameracanas" or some other unique spelling. You can look at www.ameraucana.org and click on "photo gallery" to see the accepted colors of Ameraucanas. Even if you bred two accepted colors together, with few exceptions the results are EEs or non-standard Ameraucanas depending on your viewpoint. There are a few project colors people are working on, but in general if it doesn't look like one of the birds on the ameraucana website they are EEs.

 

[Phage]

Quote: SOP Rules/breed descriptions for different breeds are not all the same.
Rules for silkies can't be extended to Ameraucanas.

 

[fowlmouthgirls]

Apparently they are very strict about the breeds standards...http://www.ameraucana.org/standard.html

 

[desertmarcy]

Now on to another topic other than EE vs Ameraucana...I am not an Ameraucana breeder but I have one Black and one Blue Ameraucana, both hens, both from the same breeder. They are 2+ years old and the Black one is being a persistent broody this year. The Blue one has not been broody yet, knock on wood. I do not like/want broody hens, I know some people do, but not me. So question, as a breed, how broody do Ameraucanas tend to be, or does it vary a lot by color variety or strain? I bred these two last year to an Orloff, made some beautiful and friendly EEs, but now the ones out of the Black Ameraucana are driving me nuts as one after another they are going broody and my broody-break cages are filling up...this just seems to be a highly broody year around here, even a hatchery Barred Rock has gone broody...I think if I had known this black hen was going to be such a persistent broody and passing that tendency on to her offspring, I would not have used her, and of course I have hatched more chicks from her this year, bred to a Black Copper Marans for some olive eggers, before I realized the problem. This is her second time already in the wire-bottomed cage to try to break her of it.

 

[pips&peeps]

An Ameraucana that is an odd color is still an Ameraucana? I have silkies and if a silkie is an odd color, it is still a silkie and you can show them as AOV?

Any mixed color variety bird that does not look like a "real" color or pattern cannot be shown.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Any mixed color variety bird that does not look like a "real" color or pattern cannot be shown.

Your talking about just ameraucanas right? not every bird in general.

 

[salt and pepper]

An Ameraucana that is an odd color is still an Ameraucana? I have silkies and if a silkie is an odd color, it is still a silkie and you can show them as AOV?

This is a controversial statement. Some say they are EEs, some say they are ameraucanas. I personally see them as a none standard ameraucana, since ALL their genetics are pure.

 

[sarahkatie]

Your talking about just ameraucanas right? not every bird in general.

This IS the ameraucana forum....So that's what I understand, both from what jean said, and from my own understanding of showing, as little as that may be.

The same information can be easily found by going to the ameraucana breeders club website and reading about the breed and its standards for showing.

 

[pips&peeps]

Your talking about just ameraucanas right? not every bird in general.

Any bird shown must be of a recognizeable color/pattern.