THIS is exactly why we are doing this. To put pressure on them to conform their breed of Ameraucanas to the SOP or to change the name of their birds to Easter Eggers. Don't get me wrong, we love the birds we received, and their worth the price we paid, but they are not the real deal. It's 100% false advertising. We had to build an additional coop & run for this flock just to keep them because they will never be able to go into our Ameraucana run/coop as we had planned. And if faced with the choice we'd probably do it again, but we had the space & resources to do so. If we lived in town with ordinances or didn't have the space or whatever then these birds would've been a burden to deal with and nothing more. We're trying to ensure that other people don't have to deal with this as a lot of people already have & McMurrays has been told by several people these are not SOP Ameraucanas they're EEs, they simply do not care. That's not right.
We ordered BBS...they're out of stock on the Lavs, but with deciding to keep the EEs we don't have an available run to keep them separated. I will definitely be posting pics when we finally pick up the little buggers!!! I'll bet that was interesting! I've caught a lot of that drift when researching their colors & genetics. Seems like it's a love it or hate it with the Lavs. I'm still on the fence with the Ermine...but kind of feel like they have a cleaner look/coloring to them than the Splashes. We thought we had a Silver Ameraucana...still breaks my heart she's not, bc she is the prettiest bird & her legs are drop. dead. gorgeous
McMurray told us she is a "pure, clean faced Ameraucana" according to their Hatchery president. Either they are all total bafoons or this is intentional...and I'm leaning towards intentional. They had zero interest in any of the resources I sent on Ameraucanas and EEs, even after they admitted to us that they supposedly "don't know what an Easter Egger is because we don't sell them."
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