Ameraucauna Vrs Easter Egger! Such a "Raw Nerve" with some folks!

[coq au vin]

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If you order a bunch of "Ameraucanas" from Ideal, it's likely that more than half will lay blue eggs.

 

[Goldenseal]

..I think there are ways to educate and enlighten about ones breed and breed
standards without being elitist and condescending.

I think this is the beef of the OP.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Clearly, chickens don't work that way -- but maybe they should!!!!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Clearly, chickens don't work that way -- but maybe they should!!!!

Ok, maybe I don't have my thinking cap on today, but how do they not "work that way"? All pure dog breeds got to be what they are by having different breeds crossed together to make something new. Same as we do with chickens. Take the "puggle" for example. You breed a pug and a beagle, you get a puggle, it's something new and different, it's no longer a pug or a beagle. And it's a "mix" until the AKC decides to accept it. If you decide to make a new breed of chicken, you have a "mix" of 2 other breeds until the APA decides that it breeds true enough and enough people are breeding it to call it a new breed name. So, yeah, I'm not getting how that's different...

 

[Illia]

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If you order a bunch of "Ameraucanas" from Ideal, it's likely that more than half will lay blue eggs.

Both those quotes together really don't work. Ideal's Easter Eggers actually do not have a good chance like that to lay truly blue eggs. Blue eggs are very easy to ruin, especially when working with EE's. I believe the correct thing to say is that half or more of the population will lay green eggs. And even then, you can never be sure. I highly doubt they have any sort of organization to their EE breedings, so really, I'm pretty sure there's loads of greens, browns, and few blues around, because once a brown or green touches them - ding. No more blue.

 

[coq au vin]

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If you order a bunch of "Ameraucanas" from Ideal, it's likely that more than half will lay blue eggs.

Both those quotes together really don't work. Ideal's Easter Eggers actually do not have a good chance like that to lay truly blue eggs. Blue eggs are very easy to ruin, especially when working with EE's. I believe the correct thing to say is that half or more of the population will lay green eggs. And even then, you can never be sure. I highly doubt they have any sort of organization to their EE breedings, so really, I'm pretty sure there's loads of greens, browns, and few blues around, because once a brown or green touches them - ding. No more blue.

No, I meant what I posted. Go ahead and order them, raise them up to POL and let me know.

I've already done it twice, hence my post. I don't care to speculate on their breeding program, I'm passing on my own experience with their birds.

 

[coq au vin]

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Clearly, chickens don't work that way -- but maybe they should!!!!

Ok, maybe I don't have my thinking cap on today, but how do they not "work that way"? All pure dog breeds got to be what they are by having different breeds crossed together to make something new. Same as we do with chickens. Take the "puggle" for example. You breed a pug and a beagle, you get a puggle, it's something new and different, it's no longer a pug or a beagle. And it's a "mix" until the AKC decides to accept it. If you decide to make a new breed of chicken, you have a "mix" of 2 other breeds until the APA decides that it breeds true enough and enough people are breeding it to call it a new breed name. So, yeah, I'm not getting how that's different...

I think perhaps you've interpreted my comment from the opposite direction it was intended.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Ok, maybe I don't have my thinking cap on today, but how do they not "work that way"? All pure dog breeds got to be what they are by having different breeds crossed together to make something new. Same as we do with chickens. Take the "puggle" for example. You breed a pug and a beagle, you get a puggle, it's something new and different, it's no longer a pug or a beagle. And it's a "mix" until the AKC decides to accept it. If you decide to make a new breed of chicken, you have a "mix" of 2 other breeds until the APA decides that it breeds true enough and enough people are breeding it to call it a new breed name. So, yeah, I'm not getting how that's different...

I think perhaps you've interpreted my comment from the opposite direction it was intended.

Now THAT is entirely possible!

So, we're on the same page?

 

[coq au vin]

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I think perhaps you've interpreted my comment from the opposite direction it was intended.

Now THAT is entirely possible!

So, we're on the same page?

hahaha, yes. You made the case I was trying to make. Now, look at your example backwards: the dog/horse people would be all over saying, "no, it's a mutt because you've got no PAPERS!".
That's what I meant by "chickens don't work that way".

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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GOTCHA!! LOL Good lord, if I had to make up papers for every chick I hatched, I'd be personally responsible for the destruction of a small forest every spring!