Ameraucanas true or fake?!?

[mshuey1]

Can someone please help me I think I may have EE's not true Ameraucana. CAn someone post a pic of a true Ameraucana. What r the qualification to being a true Ameraucanas?

 

[aoxa]

True Ameraucanas are very rare. Most people have EEs. I find the EEs have prettier colours, but that's just me.

If you have colourful patterns, you most likely have a mutt

 

[mshuey1]

Quote:
'sOh boy from the way it sounds it looks like I've been selling EE's not true Ameraucanas

so much to learn

 

[hdowden]

try looking here pics are towards the bottom https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=599567

 

[kfacres]

Easiest way? If it's not one of the 8 recongnized colors of the breed, according tot he SOP... most likely it's not... Start there.

 

[hdowden]

Quote:
if your ameraucana isnt one of these 8 colors ( Black, Blue, Blue wheaten, Brown red, Buff, Silver, Wheaten, and White) then its considered an ee

 

[Goose and Fig]

Quote:
Correct. You will find more information here:

www.ameraucana.org

If you got your birds from a hatchery or a feed store, 99.95% of the time they are Easter Eggers.

 

[Feather_wrangler]

mshuey1 What r the qualification to being a true Ameraucanas?
I did a lot of research after receiving the Ameraucanas from the feed store that I ordered them from.
The two that are laying give us olive colored eggs
Here are my EEs

 

[kfacres]

The first req... is blue, sky blue eggs... the second, is a lack of muffs, 3rd is not green legs, but should be slate colored... The rest of them, can be found on the link about a post or two above yours...

1 key word to what you said.. feedstore.... a feedstore and/or their supplier, 101% of the time, wouldn't know an Ameraucana from an Aracauna, or an EE mutt.

 

[kfacres]

Here's a picture, that I keep forgetting to add..

He's a young, TRUE BLACK AMERAUCANA cockeral, pictured at about 5 months of age...

From the Jean Ribbick, Pips n Peeps- line from Washington State. She's the secretary of the ass'n ( I Think)

Another dead giveaway, that you're getting jipped into buying something that's not.. is when they spell it Americana...

Now that's he's approaching 7 months, he's begun to crow, and really has some neat tail feathers coming in... He's also, going to be a very large bird- especially considering comparing him to his penmate females.