Color of Americauna Rooster

[mom2jedi]

I gave up too on correcting the feed store, after a conversation I had with one of the girls went like this:

"What breeds of chicks do you have right now?"
"RIR, SLW, and Araucana."
"You mean Ameraucana?" (I could see the fluffy cheeks.)
"No, I thought it was Ameraucana too but I had a lady correct me, told me it was pronounced Aracauna."
Inward sigh. Then the other girl perked up at that and said.
"No, they're Ameraucanas." They went back and forth for a minute before I interjected.
"Actually, they are two different breeds. Aracaunas are rumpless, and Ameraucanas have the muffs and beards. You probably have Easter Eggers though since you can only get true Ameraucanas from a breeder."

DEAD SILENCE.

Another inward sigh.
"You have Ameraucanas, the lady was mistaken when she told you you were pronouncing it wrong."

After that I just stifled my urge to educate them even though I like that feed store better than the larger one and wouldn't mind trying. I didn't even get into it with the other feed store after being told by the owner that chickens don't need grit, the oyster shell is all they need. Considering the fact that they have laying hens in cages out back along with roosters (don't ask me why) so they can sell "fresh eggs" in cages I would put a rabbit in they are so small, I decided it wasn't worth it to try and educate them.

ETA Sorry! Didn't mean to hi-jack your post! Just thought I'd share my story. Unless you've gotten your "Ameraucana" from a breeder, you most likely have an EE.

 

[Ms~Silkie~Girl]

Well im not sure, because i have been told by people who have been raising chickens for their whole life that he is an Ameracauna, and Mcmurray Hatchery uses both Araucana, Ameraucana, and EE to refer to them. I will just email the poultry superintendant of the NYS fair and ask what he thinks.

 

[zephyrcreek]

My mom has had chickens her whole life to and does not know the difference between a Rhode island Red and a Production Red (that hatcheries call RIR). Once you see the two side by side the diffference is obvious. I have a gorgeous Wheaten Ameraucana roo at home from John Blehm. Your boy is very close in color, but if you saw him next to a true Ameraucana roo you would instantly know the difference. He is a gorgeous boy, but he is a Amerauna cross which is referred to as an Easter Egger. We have many children get DQ every year at the fair when they enter their EE's as Ameraucana's. It is disheartening that so many people lie, or are themselves confused when they are selling their birds.

 

[tonkatuff]

If you were really serious about exhibiting purebred poultry, you would own & have thoroughly digested a copy of the APA Standard of Perfection and then you would know exactly what you have and what to call it.

 

[HBuehler]

Agreed..you didn't ask about his chances so I'm not going to pick him apart he's a nice EE but the major problems in being an Ameraucana is his color is wrong and not close enough to any accepted color to bluff your way in..his comb is not allowed and his leg color is wrong.
We have those life long breeders around here that raise pure Ameraucana's that don't have 1 on the property...all white chickens are leghorns...red are RIR and Buff is a BO if life were that simple.
Also,breeders of Ameraucana's never spell it wrong..we know how it's spelled so when asking people ask them to spell it...some EE breeders will spell it correctly but most won't

 

[Mahonri]

That's a pretty Easter Egger roo you have there.