Hi Shannon,
I hope you sent her a link to the Araucana Club of America. I swear everytime I type or right America my brain tells me there should be a U in there thanks to the Ameraucana. LOL!
The person is actually correct back when she was raising them. That would be in the 60s before there was a standard of perfection for either the Araucana or the Ameraucna. Even people raising them in the 70s and 80s didn't really concern themselves with standards. And still today we find that for the most part people are just raising chickens for eggs so it doesn't really matter what they are called as long as it is what they think it should be called.
Before there was a Standard written for the two respective breeds, they were almost interchangeable. Which I find is interesting because the paintings and drawings done in the late 1800s and early 1900s definately show a rumpless and tufted bird. The stories told of Dr. Bustros the ( creater) of the Modern Araucana talked about him being fascinated by the earrings of the one breed and the rumplessness of the other breed. There are accounts of the cross he created between the two. So why was there such a debate back in the mid 1900s about what traits they should have. To me it would have been fairly obvious. That would be similar to an ostrich back then being called a duck today. There are such obvious differences. Maybe I am picky but I don't consider all chickens the same. Thats why there are descriptions to fit each breed.
Lanae
I hope you sent her a link to the Araucana Club of America. I swear everytime I type or right America my brain tells me there should be a U in there thanks to the Ameraucana. LOL!
The person is actually correct back when she was raising them. That would be in the 60s before there was a standard of perfection for either the Araucana or the Ameraucna. Even people raising them in the 70s and 80s didn't really concern themselves with standards. And still today we find that for the most part people are just raising chickens for eggs so it doesn't really matter what they are called as long as it is what they think it should be called.
Before there was a Standard written for the two respective breeds, they were almost interchangeable. Which I find is interesting because the paintings and drawings done in the late 1800s and early 1900s definately show a rumpless and tufted bird. The stories told of Dr. Bustros the ( creater) of the Modern Araucana talked about him being fascinated by the earrings of the one breed and the rumplessness of the other breed. There are accounts of the cross he created between the two. So why was there such a debate back in the mid 1900s about what traits they should have. To me it would have been fairly obvious. That would be similar to an ostrich back then being called a duck today. There are such obvious differences. Maybe I am picky but I don't consider all chickens the same. Thats why there are descriptions to fit each breed.
Lanae
