Ameraucana with no tail='s EE right?

[monarc23]

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I'm pretty sure it was more than one roo with tail-less-ness in the pics

I also didn't realize that EEs may not lay colored eggs!

 

[Marlinchaser]

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Yep sometimes you get a green/beige/brown/purple or pink all depends on the crosses. Or if you have luck like me, they crow and you get no eggs.

 

[sara]

EE'rs can lay pretty much any color...

 

[monarc23]

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Yep sometimes you get a green/beige/brown/purple or pink all depends on the crosses. Or if you have luck like me, they crow and you get no eggs.

haha awh!!!

purple!?!?! alright that's just cool. LOL

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Araucanas are rumpless--it's a bit more than lacking tail feathers. I have had molting birds completely lose tail feathers.

It is not at all uncommon for araucana breeders to keep and used tailed birds as breeders, and they also use birds without tufts as a double dose of that gene is lethal.

However all ameraucanas should have rumps and tails, muff & beards, and should not have tufts.

Araucanas should never (in htis country) have muffs or beards.

 

[bearpaw]

Monarc23,

There is another possibility! Though doubtful. 15 days ago I received some hatching eggs from a Araucana breeder in the American Araucana club. These are decendants of original chilean imports. Imported in 1978. The photos I have seen are tailed birds. In Great Britain Tailed or not they are Araucanas. Maybe this plus the breed name Ameraucana is just confusing to the seller. Hatcheries sell quote "Ameraucana, Araucanas" when they use those together it can be confusing. I would like to know where the seller got them.

 

[orcasislandchickens]

Don't be too hard on them. I have araucana. As in rumpless tailess birds. The reality is that even though they are nice birds few of their offspring hatch out as keepers. The others (especially the ones that hatch out tailed) go on to new homes and happy lives with my blessing as easter eggers. INMHO If you want to show them or for some reason want araucana or ameraucana hunt around pay the price and get birds that meet the standard (they are available if you realy want them). If you want colored egglayers and don't mind mutts, easter eggers are grand and will do very nicely.

The proof is in the pudding in my book. people have favorite kinds of chickens and become quite passionate about them but realy the happy chicken owners are the self aware ones that have found ones they love. Whether colored egg layers, fluffy gentle ones, big ones, heritage ones, interesting colored ones, super tiny ones, please yourself. As for me anything I take the time and energy to care for needs to fulfill a purpose even if it is just as a loving pet that lays regularly enough I can count on getting breakfast... Yeah I get way too many of the kind that crow- the no egglayers.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

If this is the bird in question, he is an AMERAUCANA.

That is Cobalt. He lost all his tail feathers and most of the 'fleshy part' of his tail (along with great chunks of flesh in other places) in a raccoon attack.
I doubt he'll ever be able to grow tail feathers back.
Thanks for asking.
I'm so used to seeing him tail-less I don't even think it odd anymore.
But once again, he and all his girls are AMERAUCANA through and through.

Thanks Sara, for taking the time to PM and ask.

Lisa

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

OUCH!! Poor baby! I must say, he is a very handsome guy--tail or not.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Thanks!

Lisa