Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

My Am's are finally getting their beards back but my Marans is still being a bully to them. They won't be mine for long because I am letting my entire flock go, but they are just so sweet - I will miss this face!! After this pic, she didn't want anything to do with the camera so she turned herself around and kept looking back over her shoulder, wondering when I was leaving
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There is no such RECOGNIZED thing as "non-standard Ameraucanas". (Otherwise known as Easter Eggers)

Chickens, it seems, don't work like other species.

Ok, so if it is not standard it is not an Ameraucana.What if is just a really really bad example. Can two standard Ameraucanas produce non standard Ameraucanas (akaee's) ?
 
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There is no such RECOGNIZED thing as "non-standard Ameraucanas". (Otherwise known as Easter Eggers)

Chickens, it seems, don't work like other species.

Ok, so if it is not standard it is not an Ameraucana.What if is just a really really bad example. Can two standard Ameraucanas produce non standard Ameraucanas (akaee's) ?

Yes. I have an EE in my flock that hatched out of a Black/Blue Ameraucana mating. All the sibs fit SOP (Splash excepted) but one is a "freak". I think the kind term is "sport". But I'm quite happy with Easter Egger. I have loads of them. No real complaints. They lay pretty eggs and decorate my yard.
 
Man I got mixed up between members.
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So, to answer your question, there are indeed non-recognized colors of Ameraucanas, but, they're usually a progress towards a recognized color, not just a mix of random colors.



Also, yellow skin, sorry - Never heard of it as a fluke on a truly purebred Ameraucana, maybe someone correct me, but for now I'm thinking if a flock has any bird with yellow skin/soles - Easter Egger, no doubt.
 
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Yes, thats what I thought too, when she said that I was kinda like hmmm. But I dont feel like I know enough to question someone. I think maybe some are EE's and some are AM's. She said, too that she brings in new birds from other breeders in various parts of the country, to bring in new blood every few years. It seems quite possible to me that some EE's got in there. Maybe she is a good liar, maybe she doesnt have a clue. Oh well, It's all good.
I will get pics of them and maybe you can help me sort them out? I just like to be educated :-)

Sport. I have read that somewhere else, maybe on the marans thread about a white bird coming out of a wheaten flock?
So that would be different than just crossing two colors of AM's. A sport is like a throwback or a genetic anomoly?
Does it happen in other breeds too? Like if you cross a buff orpington and a lavender do you get non standard orpingtons?
So If I have B/B/S AM's and I use a Buff roo for example, what would I get?
 
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Folks genuinely working on new colors that they hope to get recognized don't usually sell their birds (or eggs) and if they do it is with VERY specific information about what they are selling.
 
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I suspect the latter.


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Ameraucanas are a relatively new breed. I suspect "sports" are sort of genetic bloops - yes, throwbacks, so to speak. Probably also indicative of less than fabulous breeding practices as well. (My Ameraucanas were sold to me as "not show quality" which speaks volumes. Means the seller KNEW there were problems with her birds.) But I'm sure it can happen to anyone. Reputable breeders will readily acknowledge the sports and most likely cull them without hesitation and not sell them.


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I'm sure it must.
 
Sports can pop out of any breed of chickens and those sports can be one of several different colors. It would be much more likely to happen in a newer breed though as colors in the long established breeds have their color pretty well "fixed"........it can and does happen though. Dick Horstmans Del bantams are an example of that. He did not set out to breed Dels, he just ended up with a Del looking sport and went from there. The bantams are not NH/PR matings where a sport was produced and then used to create the breed as they were in large fowl. His bantam Dels started as 100% Plymouth Rock and no other breed was introduced to create the Del color pattern, which is a very unusual color pattern.

Is there a list of color patterns that the members of this thread would still call an AM even though it is not a recognized color? Lavender seems to be one of those colors. Lavender is not a AM recognized color and so far Lavender is not used as a color description by either poultry organization.

Just curious..........

Walt
 

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