Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[BlueCamas]

I'm planning on getting some fertile Ameraucana eggs from a good breeder and I can choose from black, blue, and wheaten. I plan on keeping a roo and 2 or 3 hens. So anyway, I'm wondering if there are any colors that can mix (a mixed flock) that will still produce purebred birds and not EE's.

Example:
blue roo bred to wheaten hen= blue wheaten or blues and wheatens or EE's
Thanks

 

[Phage]

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blue roo bred to wheaten hen=EE

Blues and blacks can be kept together and will breed true ameraucanas.

 

[EweSheep]

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I believe you are correct. That is how I remember it.....wish I had been a kid in 80.....lol.

Walt

I wasn't even born in 1980!

I remember my parents' neighbors having those hatchery Araucanas (really, EEs!) about 1975. It was expensive back then because it started to catch on for novelty. She had some pretty ones when I first saw them in 1981.

 

[Phage]

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I believe you are correct. That is how I remember it.....wish I had been a kid in 80.....lol.

Walt

I wasn't even born in 1980!

So using chicken math you are actually a teenager

 

[OSUman]

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I wasn't even born in 1980!

I remember my parents' neighbors having those hatchery Araucanas (really, EEs!) about 1975. It was expensive back then because it started to catch on for novelty. She had some pretty ones when I first saw them in 1981.

My grandparents said they had them in the early 70s.

 

[pinkwindsong]

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APA SOP page 201 refers the Blue Ameruacana to the blue description on page 37. page 37 says....Breast: an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather having sharply defined lacing of black.

Most people think of the Andalusion blue when thinking of the Blue description. There is also Self Blue that does not have the lacing.

Walt

Looking back again, I guess it does.

Wonder why I thought otherwise.




Someone mentioned a BYC member contacting hatcheries about the EE issue. . .


TK Poultry did, and I did months before him/her. We both got the same thing - No response except from Cackle, who flat out denied having EE's and insisted breeding purebred Ameraucanas, despite all the evidence I brought.

If BYC'rs can get city ordinances changed for people to be allowed backyard chickens, surely we as a group can get companies to be held responsible for their actions.

)O(

 

[Illia]

All this talk of old time Easter Eggers reminds me when I was a kid (the 90's

) we had one, almost convincing to be an Ameraucana, but, the family didn't know or care whatever she was. I mainly knew we had one because I looked back in our old album, and there it was, then the memory came back. She was the sweetest of the bunch. The meanest was a black sex link hen (literally punched holes in people's feet) and a Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster who was often replaced. . . . By another Wyandotte, who was again mean and stupid.



Aaah the good old days.

That was, umm, not very long ago.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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If BYC'rs can get city ordinances changed for people to be allowed backyard chickens, surely we as a group can get companies to be held responsible for their actions.

)O(

Seems to me the hatcheries don't have any particular incentive to make a change. Do we have a lawyer in this group or in the ABC that might write a "cease and desist" type letter on behalf of the ABC perhaps? Educate them briefly about what is and isn't Ameraucana and maybe mention damages and possible compensation? That might wake the hatcheries up to their mistake and cause them to change their ways.

 

[halo]

It seems like most of the hatcheries use the term Ameraucana (Easter Egger), which I think covers any liability they might have. McMurray not only calls them Americanas, but in their description, they call them "The Easter Egg Chicken". They also say they are for egg laying and not for exhibition. Ideal calls them Ameraucanas, but also calls them a multi colored breed. I havent seen any hatcheries claim they are "true Ameraucana" as per the Standard of Perfection. The best option seems educating people to what the differences are, as many here are doing.

 

[jeremy]

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I wasn't even born in 1980!

So using chicken math you are actually a teenager

I was a teenager a few years ago, I'm able to buy my own alcohol now.

My grandparents had Cochins, I remember a big Buff one in particular that I called Socks.