Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[speckledhen]

But according to the APA, ameraucanas never have green legs

And they shouldn't, no. The standard calls for slate. I was answering the statement that "EEs have green legs", which is often the case, but certainly not always. It can happen, as often does with genes, that something far back in the ancestry can pop up in a visually pure line. I've seen some Ameraucanas that do come from great lines show some greenish legs. That means that there was some yellow skinned bird somewhere back there, probably by unauthorized mating, who knows, that got into the line. Genes can pop up after many generations, unfortunately. The bird would certainly be a cull for show and you would not want to breed from it as an Ameraucana. Same with the Blue Orpingtons that spontaneously produce a yellow legged chick on rare occasion, even from properly slate legged, white skinned parents.

 

[delder2009]

Can any of y'all help me? What do green legs and slate legs look like. So I know what I'm looking at. Tiny is my first ameraucana chick and has gray legs. I would post pics but for some reason it is not letting me.

 

[JackieandChicks]

Can someone link me again to the 50% rule with Amerucanas? It goes back a month. Thanks!

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

That is not necessarily true. I have five EEs who do NOT have green legs, three have slate and one has white and one has yellow. EEs can have any color legs at all, lay any color eggs at all, have any color eyes or plumage at all. They just may have the general appearance of an Ameraucana (if you squint, lol) and they have have a blue egg laying parent in their lineage, but just miss the boat on the blue egg gene like a couple of mine did.

Used to have a barred EE who also had yellow legs yet laid a lovely greenish blue egg.

Thanks for correcting me, I should have worded that differently, true Ameraucanas should NOT have green legs LOL. I also have an EE with white legs, and one without muffs, one even has bigger muffs than my Ameraucana!!! I plan to play with my Ameraucana genes to create some fun EE's as well!

 

[delder2009]

Can any of y'all help me? What do green legs and slate legs look like. So I know what I'm looking at. Tiny is my first ameraucana chick and has gray legs. I would post pics but for some reason it is not letting me.

 

[delder2009]

it seem that the legs are lightning up with age

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

Not a great pic but here is the what we are talking about! I was shocked when I saw my first EE, I thought something was wrong with her!!!

 

[chickee]

My buff x blue wheaten color cross Ameraucana chicks have legs that color. None of my non color mixed Ameraucana chicks have legs that color.

 

[tigercreek]

The point most are missing is that EE is not a breed, ..... they are called Easter Eggers as a description of a bird that lays colored eggs. They can be any breed, or any combination of breeds usually with a blue egg gene in the mix.

 

[DMRippy]

Can someone link me again to the 50% rule with Amerucanas? It goes back a month. Thanks!

What are you asking about? Blues?