Araucana......

[tammir]

So if all of these are EE's & not Araucanas or Americaunas, is there any way to breed them true? If they are all tufted/have the puffy cheeks, would I be correct in assuming that if one of them turns out to be a rooster and try to hatch out the eggs that I would still be running the risk of a high mortality rate due to the lethal gene associated with the tufts?
I have a few pictures that are clearer and will be posting them shortly. I'd just really like to have a better idea of what I've got before I try signing my son up with the local 4H with the chicks.

 

[tammir]

These are the clearest pictures I have of the chicks....the bottom two are of Diamond - she's the smallest of the 4 (at least I think she's a she)

 

[Stacykins]

So if all of these are EE's & not Araucanas or Americaunas, is there any way to breed them true? If they are all tufted/have the puffy cheeks, would I be correct in assuming that if one of them turns out to be a rooster and try to hatch out the eggs that I would still be running the risk of a high mortality rate due to the lethal gene associated with the tufts? I have a few pictures that are clearer and will be posting them shortly. I'd just really like to have a better idea of what I've got before I try signing my son up with the local 4H with the chicks.

All the birds shown here are bearded and muffed, not tufted. Beards and muffs are not lethal, and a different trait than tufting. So there won't be an issue with lethality in purebred Ameraucanas, or EEs/Americanas (there is no I in Ameraucana

) who are bearded/muffed.

Like Illia said, the OP is the only one with true Araucanas, since the UK standards are different from U.S. standards. If it has a beard or a muff in the U.S. it is not an Araucana. Or if it came from a hatchery, feed store, etc. it is not an Araucana either.

 

[ChickenWisperer]

ALL the chicks and hens I see on this thread are not Araucanas, they're Easter Eggers/mutts . . . . Except for the first black ones posted by the OP. Because in their country, Araucanas are different.

X2 on that.

 

[cashdl]

As Illia says only the original poster has araucanas pictured and theirs are the UK version of Araucana. The rest of the birds on this thread are what is know as Easter Eggers, which are mixed breed chickens that may or may not have the blue egg gene.

These are U.S. Standard Araucana.

Notice, no tails whatsoever

Notice the feathers sticking way out of their cheeks, those are called tufts.



The puffy cheeks on the birds previously posted is called muffs, and the fluff under their chin is called beards. Araucana do not have that.

Lanae