Barred Rock Hen + Ameraucana Roo

[TheOddOneOut]

My thinking as well, here’s a photo of the roo. My friend says he Ameraucana but I am thinking EE.

@EmmaRainboe this doesn’t look like a pure color to me.

 

[Marymc31]

@EmmaRainboe this doesn’t look like a pure color to me.

Here is a photo of its legs, they look blue/grey.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Here is a photo of its legs, they look blue/grey.

I still don’t believe he is Blue Wheaten....hmm.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Here is a photo of its legs, they look blue/grey.

Hmmm the legs are awfully light. Ameraucanas should have slate/blue legs. Which I would say yours may fall under blue. The hackles and saddles look off-colored. What color are the bottoms of his feet? They should be pink.

Heres a blue wheaten Ameraucana I used to have:

The blue on your boy is alot lighter but doesn’t mean it isnt blue.

BlueAmeraucana.jpg

• EmmaRainboe
• Feb 11, 2021
• ameraucana

Blue Wheaten Ameraucana

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Here is a photo of its legs, they look blue/grey.

His coloring is off, but he could just be a mixed color or lower quality ameraucana.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

His coloring is off, but he could just be a mixed color or lower quality ameraucana.

Just as an aside, you know what’s kinda interesting... according to something I read on the ameraucana club forums, if you mix two varieties of ameraucana that result in a non standard colored bird... it is not an ameraucana... it’s an Easter Egger

I’m not into standards and SOP stuff regardless, but sometimes those kinda ideas illustrate how “man made” the rules of the breeds are... to me at least.

 

[Marymc31]

Just as an aside, you know what’s kinda interesting... according to something I read on the ameraucana club forums, if you mix two varieties of ameraucana that result in a non standard colored bird... it is not an ameraucana... it’s an Easter Egger

I’m not into standards and SOP stuff regardless, but sometimes those kinda ideas illustrate how “man made” the rules of the breeds are... to me at least.

Interesting info! I’m not into them either but do find the standards interesting.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Just as an aside, you know what’s kinda interesting... according to something I read on the ameraucana club forums, if you mix two varieties of ameraucana that result in a non standard colored bird... it is not an ameraucana... it’s an Easter Egger

I’m not into standards and SOP stuff regardless, but sometimes those kinda ideas illustrate how “man made” the rules of the breeds are... to me at least.

The term “Easter egger” really does seem like just a label. A mixed color ameraucana would not fit my definition of EE, since it’s a purebred ameraucana, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an EE to others.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

The term “Easter egger” really does seem like just a label. A mixed color ameraucana would not fit my definition of EE, since it’s a purebred ameraucana, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an EE to others.

Yeah, it was as old discussion on that forum, so maybe the thoughts or rules on it have changed, but the point seemed to be agreed upon by those breeders... I don’t think it was really about the term Easter Egger though...

their main point was that the results of mixing a black and silver ameraucana, for example, was not considered an ameraucana... regardless of what it was called.

The discussion was in context of improving blue egg color in the wheaten and silver lines, by out crossing to white or BBS lines, if I recall correctly.

But they were pretty staunch on the point that only birds that fit squarely into the approved colors were to be called an ameraucana.

For me, it was kinda a strange thought that the results of two pure ameraucanas of different varieties isn’t also an ameraucana, so it kinda stuck with me, lol