Araucana...Easter Egger Leg Color question

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I am just going to have to find me some of those this spring! They are gorgous!
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Illia,

Thank you for helping me out here
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So Ameraucanas have tails, slate legs and only those colors, correct? Do the chicks hatch with slate legs?
I have not learned the differences in combs yet....my eyes just see huge, small, or "Nanner looking" weird
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Yes. Although black Ameraucanas are allowed to have black legs.

A pea comb is a nice even three rows of bumps. Most Easter Eggers have them, but some have single combs. (sawtooth edge)


Both Lanae and I sell hatching eggs of true Araucanas.
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Do the chicks hatch with slate legs?

Not all of them do. The wheaten and blue wheaten varieties do not and buffs, depending on what genes they are carrying can either have slate legs or light pink skin colored legs when they hatch.​
 
ADORABLE CHICK PICS.....and I never knew about 2 tufted birds causing a lethal factor...my tufted EE or whatever you want to call them breed all the time and I get tufted babies....sooooo confusalated now?????
 
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That's because Easter Eggers have muffs and beard not tufts. Only Araucanas, true ones, have tufts. Tufts are actual feathers that curl out of the sides of a chicken's head. Muffs and beard are fluffy, tiny feathers that surround the sides and bottom of a chicken's face.

Tufts:

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Muffs and Beard:

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About the leg color question:
My EEs had pink legs when I got them from the feed store.
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Their legs got darker as they aged.
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I think their leg color will change over time.
 
wow... yours DID change.......
I am going to keep an eye on mine and see what happens. They seem to change over night at this age....lol
Looked in on them a few minutes ago... and they appear to be getting "bumps" of feathers on their rumps...to cute
 
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I noticed that Illia (I looked at both your off BYC sites)
I hope to get an incubator soon, I'd love to hatch my own!
Can one hatch eggs with another hen, and not use an incubator?
 

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