Attn. Easter Egger Owners!

[sparkles2307]

DH has raised cattle for 20+ years. He likes them to be as "angus" as he can get them but he usually uses a pure bull on a 1/2 or 3/4 cow because they milk better and all the aforementioned attributes. He doesnt like "pure-pure" so I will follow the same advice for my flock.

 

[pips&peeps]

Totally Off Topic,

Try introducing some beefalo blood to your herd. Lower cholesterol, better meat, less bone mass, etc etc

 

[LoneCowboy]

I think you will find that all chickens are mixes at one point or another, the fact that they are close to type or you breed in to make them more to type is what's the difference.

Don't feel that those who correct you are snobby. I don't think that's the case at all, but an attempt to keep you from looking stupid in the future.

Like the guy on Ebay who sells 1st generation Murray McMurry hatching eggs, like that's a good thing. He doesn't know that hatchery eggs are rarely a desirable thing among hatching egg purchasers. So if at some point you were to sell your eggs as Ameraucaunas you'd have a bunch of angry customers.

You don't look stupid to us, because we've all made that mistake.

 

[sparkles2307]

DH is anti buffalo anything. Thanks for the suggestion. Hes one of those farmers who is set in his ways....its like being married to a Brick Wall lol

 

[Sequin]

No, I don't think anyone has been a snob about pure chickens vs. EE's or any mix for that matter. Being as I show and raise purebred dogs I can understand both sides of the equation. I understand that maybe some wording of given information my come across as abrupt or in an irritated tone; but as others have said, I think that stems from longtime members hearing the same mis-information several times over. If they didn't fill us in, who would?!

I don't appreciate the hatcheries falsely advertising their stock as Ameracaunas and Arucaunas though. I do have one pullet who seems to be true, but I won't be able to tell if she breeds true because I only have an EE roo. So, I will just admire her for who she is. Also, she has yet to lay, and I will need to wait and see what color egg she lays.

Interesting thread!!

 

[roosty]

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Yep, its a common practice on here. Just so you know...if it meets all the other standards for an ameraucana except color then its an non standard ameraucana! They only have to breed true 50% of the time!! Unless you know that they were bred with other breeds.
This will be the only post I post on here cause they will give more flack for saying that!

Just watch and see!

 

[speckledhen]

This has to stop. The subject at hand has NOTHING to do with snobbery. It has to do with facts, plain and simple. I can call a tree stump an Ameraucana, but that doesn't make it one. Conversely, I can call a bird who carries the blue egg gene and has Ameraucana or Araucana blood an Easter Egger, in order to differenciate it from the other two breeds in its ancestry and that is not snobbery, but a fact. It's just a label, folks. No one has insulted anyone's family, for goodness sake. I have both Ameraucanas and Easter Eggers and love them both, but I know which is which and one is not the other. Doesn't make either less, just different. If this thread degenerates into another one-up argument, it will be closed. And more threads questioning moderation will be pulled as well.

 

[jenni2142]

I love my EE and my "real" Ameraucanes, they don't know the difference and I don't care.
To give you a laugh, when I saw the original post about snobbery I thought you meant by other chickens.

I am so glad it is Friday.

 

[lori1169]

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Ive never felt stupid or cared how i appear to others..but thanks for caring!

 

[lori1169]

pips&peeps :

pips&peeps wrote:
Yes, she is a pullet, but she and her like friends are easter eggers.

lori1169 wrote: Thanks..I was sold 2 Buff Orpingtons and one turned out to be an egger too although it is buff and white...so i guess the feed stores dont always know what they get either..! Im not a chicken purist...but all chicken knowledge is good to have!

So now there is a problem with the information given to you? What changed since your last post to give any indication that there was any "snobbery" involved?​

Im sorry you think you are the "snob" i was referring to...I was simply describing the jist of a chicken conversation with several chicken purists { or police if you like} at my local feed store recently. It was interesting listening to them discuss, sometimes in a condescending manor, different breeds. I have encountered this in the horse world also as the owner of a Mustang. I am simply making an observation and no insult was intended.​