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ARAUCANA BREEDERS are these chicks Araucanas?PLEASE HELP!!
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You may wish to learn a bit more about the differences between araucauna, ameracauna, and easter eggers. What your feed store person sold you was probably an ameracauna, which is also an easter egger. Here, lets see if I can break this down, as I understand it.
Araucauna is a rumpless, tufted bird from south america. Lays a blue egg. Geneticaly Auracaunas carry a lethal gene that is linked to the ear tufts, and causes sudden death around day 18 in the shell. So American breeders crossed the Auracauna with other breeds to produce a more viable bird that still layed a colored egg, hence the Ameracauna.
Ameracaunas have tail feathers, and a muff, but rarely the ear tufts, and can lay eggs in any shade from blue to olive green, and come in many colors. Some have told me that you can match the color green of their eggs to thier legs, but I have not always found this to be true, but sometimes it is!
Easter Egger is a generic and attractive name, for any bird of probable ameracauna decent that could lay a colored egg! Usually ameracauna hens are great breeders, and good mommas, so you get lots of back yard mixes in pretty colors.
Ameracauna has been recognised as a breed, and is listed in the APA standard of perfection, and they are available from just about every hatchery in every color concievable. Your feed store probably sold you ameracaunas, and you should get a nice colored egg. However, do not anticipate blue. Usually the further you get from the auracauna blood, the less blue, and the more green the eggs become.
I doubt you got an EE from the store, they may have told you that it was an auracauna, and that would have been incorrect, but many many many people dont worry themselves with the distinction, in fact, if you are happy with your babies, why should you! I hope this helps clarify it a bit for you.
You may wish to learn a bit more about the differences between araucauna, ameracauna, and easter eggers. What your feed store person sold you was probably an ameracauna, which is also an easter egger. Here, lets see if I can break this down, as I understand it.
Araucauna is a rumpless, tufted bird from south america. Lays a blue egg. Geneticaly Auracaunas carry a lethal gene that is linked to the ear tufts, and causes sudden death around day 18 in the shell. So American breeders crossed the Auracauna with other breeds to produce a more viable bird that still layed a colored egg, hence the Ameracauna.
Ameracaunas have tail feathers, and a muff, but rarely the ear tufts, and can lay eggs in any shade from blue to olive green, and come in many colors. Some have told me that you can match the color green of their eggs to thier legs, but I have not always found this to be true, but sometimes it is!
Easter Egger is a generic and attractive name, for any bird of probable ameracauna decent that could lay a colored egg! Usually ameracauna hens are great breeders, and good mommas, so you get lots of back yard mixes in pretty colors.
Ameracauna has been recognised as a breed, and is listed in the APA standard of perfection, and they are available from just about every hatchery in every color concievable. Your feed store probably sold you ameracaunas, and you should get a nice colored egg. However, do not anticipate blue. Usually the further you get from the auracauna blood, the less blue, and the more green the eggs become.
I doubt you got an EE from the store, they may have told you that it was an auracauna, and that would have been incorrect, but many many many people dont worry themselves with the distinction, in fact, if you are happy with your babies, why should you! I hope this helps clarify it a bit for you.
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This is the link for where I have gotten some of my information.http://daffodilplanter.blogspot.com/2009/07/americana-ameraucana-araucana-backyard.html
I posted photos on BYC of both of my Americaunas ... under the "what breed or gender" forum. That is when I found out that they are both probably Easter Eggers. This was a surprise to me, but they are wonderful regardless. These particular chickens are friendly and gentle. I love them regardless of what they are. From what I understand, I can take an true Araucana and breed it with any chicken and get Easter Eggers.
I am hoping that someday I will get many different colored eggs from my girls.
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This is the link for where I have gotten some of my information.http://daffodilplanter.blogspot.com/2009/07/americana-ameraucana-araucana-backyard.html
I posted photos on BYC of both of my Americaunas ... under the "what breed or gender" forum. That is when I found out that they are both probably Easter Eggers. This was a surprise to me, but they are wonderful regardless. These particular chickens are friendly and gentle. I love them regardless of what they are. From what I understand, I can take an true Araucana and breed it with any chicken and get Easter Eggers.
I am hoping that someday I will get many different colored eggs from my girls.
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I ran across this document that explains it all very clearly...
http://www.apa-abayouthprogramsite.org/Edu_Material/Breed Info/Easter Eggers.pdf
http://www.apa-abayouthprogramsite.org/Edu_Material/Breed Info/Easter Eggers.pdf
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I know not any of those are Ameraucanas. Not even Easter Eggers. I know the black ones are BRs. I am not sure about the others.
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I'm not gonna address each point below the above individually. I'll just say, first of all it is "Ameraucana" and not the above. Secondly, an EE is NOT an Ameraucana. Thirdly, Ameraucanas can NOT lay anything but a blue egg.
Lastly, one can do a search on here for Araucana, Ameraucana, and/or EE and find a plethora of information. Some of it is spot on and some of it is blatantly false. I don't know how this thread got on the subject of Ameraucanas when the OP started out by saying he had gotten what he was told was "true Araucanas". My suggestion is to go to an authoritative source when looking for the truth. What would be an "authoritative source"? How about the APA SOP? How about the applicable Breeder's Club?
You're gonna find facts there. Not opinions.
Btw, I raise, breed, and show true WBS Ameraucanas.
God Bless,
I'm not gonna address each point below the above individually. I'll just say, first of all it is "Ameraucana" and not the above. Secondly, an EE is NOT an Ameraucana. Thirdly, Ameraucanas can NOT lay anything but a blue egg.
Lastly, one can do a search on here for Araucana, Ameraucana, and/or EE and find a plethora of information. Some of it is spot on and some of it is blatantly false. I don't know how this thread got on the subject of Ameraucanas when the OP started out by saying he had gotten what he was told was "true Araucanas". My suggestion is to go to an authoritative source when looking for the truth. What would be an "authoritative source"? How about the APA SOP? How about the applicable Breeder's Club?
You're gonna find facts there. Not opinions.
Btw, I raise, breed, and show true WBS Ameraucanas.
God Bless,
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Same for the bantam araucanas
Same for the bantam araucanas
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