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When I said Araucana I meant the British Araucana not the American version.
I also didn't mean the Araucana as it was known after it had a standard.
Yes I meant the mixed breed birds that layed blue eggs.
I always thought they were referred to as Araucana as soon as they were brought out of south America.
 
When I said Araucana I meant the British Araucana not the American version.
I also didn't mean the Araucana as it was known after it had a standard.
Yes I meant the mixed breed birds that layed blue eggs.
I always thought they were referred to as Araucana as soon as they were brought out of south America.

The British Araucana did not get developed any earlier than the American version. There were no Araucana in the UK in the 1920's when the Legbar project started. The first blue egg hens to hit the UK were the two that Clarence Eliot brought back at the end of the decade. The Cream Legbar predated the the Auracana in the UK. The Gold and Siver Legbars were given Breed recognition in the 1940's the Cream Legbar was given breed recognition in the 1950's and the English standard Auracana was given breed recognition in the 1970's. So the Auracana was about two or three decades too late to be part of the development of the Gold or Silver Legbars. There were other imports of Blue egg layers to the UK in as early as 1935, but not all of these imports survived. They were not available to the public. You could not go down to the feed store and pick up some Araucana or order live Araucana chicks in the mail. Those that had them were trying to establish their own flocks and their own breed. They were not loaning them out for others to cross to thier projects and they were not mass producing them.
 
I know you're a legbar enthusiast and active with the legbar club.
I also know the club has a lot of information about legbars and their development and club members probably know it forwards and backwards.
I'm aware that no matter what I say or how I say it that you can and will pick it apart.
All I was saying is that the auracana of the UK as known today have crests and lay blue eggs and that the cream legbars also have crests and lay blue eggs. It was my belief that those traits evolved in the legbars from the same birds that they evolved from with the araucana.
I wasn't trying to split hairs or get into when any of them became an official breed with a standard or any of that.
Anyone reading what I said can just take it with a grain of salt I suppose.
 

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