Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I don't understand how I can make them with a rooster? Are they just mixed breeds? So if my cuckoo maran roo mated with my cream legbar I'd have an Easter egger??

Sorry I want on to Anwser. It looks like your questions have been answered. Good luck finding or making some Easter eggers

 

[dstokely]

Well what do you have with a pea comb ? In the USA we went with the blue egg pea comb link . I am one of the original breeders that helped create the breed and get it accepted into the standard. EE are considered a mixed breed but they were around before Ameraucanas . Our club history says we created Ameraucana from Araucana but at that time anything that laid blue eggs was considered a Araucana . Many traits were borrowed from the hatchery birds . Araucana the Easter Egg chicken is how many were sold . True Araucana are rumples and tufted . Tufts are lethal in pure form and rumples have a fertility problem due to the fact that there is no tail to lift during mating . So we chose tails beards and pea combs . There were only 6 breeders at the APA qualifying meet . I was one of those breeders . We did this in a span of abut 10 years . Tell me what you have readily available to borrow from and I can help .

Great history lesson and you did a great job!. Love my Ameraucanas and I hope to make more. Now I have to find a silver because my favorite easter egger that met the hawk looked like a silver. I still have two easter eggers, and I will probably make more, but I have no intention of mixing my Ameraucanas....well except for a roo. I would never attempt to pass off an EE as an Ameraucana as that's how I got the EE's. I am still not sure which colors I prefer. I did not think I would be keen on the wheatens/blue wheatens, but they are beautiful. I wanted the lavs but so far, I feel kinda blah. Love the splashes and the blues and can give or take the blacks but I know they are needed for beautiful color. These are my first and they are only 7 wks old so I have plenty of time to decide.

 

[Nofowlplay]

My local feed store was selling day old chicks labeled Ameraucana/Araucana. They were quite obviously Ameraucana babies. The employees didn't know the difference. No wonder people get confused!

 

[DMRippy]

My local feed store was selling day old chicks labeled Ameraucana/Araucana. They were quite obviously Ameraucana babies. The employees didn't know the difference. No wonder people get confused!

I feel sure they were EE not ameraucanas.

 

[Nofowlplay]

I have never seen a ee baby....they were the yellow and black ...looked like the photos of the Ameraucana chicks I have seen. I just know they were either mislabeled intentionally in order to sell them or some people are too indifferent to label them correctly.

 

[DMRippy]

I have never seen a ee baby....they were the yellow and black ...looked like the photos of the Ameraucana chicks I have seen. I just know they were either mislabeled intentionally in order to sell them or some people are too indifferent to label them correctly.

That is it! Some also are not educated before they buy... some just want blue eggs and don't care.

 

[Nofowlplay]

I drove over 3 hours to buy my Ameraucana pullet because I couldn't find any purebred ones locally. It's amazing what people will try to pass off to make a buck! And if it weren't for this site I would have bought a mutt!

 

[FVRM]

I drove over 3 hours to buy my Ameraucana pullet because I couldn't find any purebred ones locally. It's amazing what people will try to pass off to make a buck! And if it weren't for this site I would have bought a mutt!

Sometimes some people are not intentionally selling easter eggers they just don't know. If the feed store and hatchery says it's an ameracauna they will believe them since they're supposed to know their chickens.

 

[Nofowlplay]

In fact DM Rippy....I remember now that you helped me locate a breeder that had purebred Ameraucanas!
Thanks! She's a great hen!

 

[Nofowlplay]

Sometimes some people are not intentionally selling easter eggers they just don't know. If the feed store and hatchery says it's an ameracauna they will believe them since they're supposed to know their chickens. 

Unfortunately they don't know all the time....and this leads to more misinformed chicken owners.