completely DUPED!

[pbjmaker]

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I often sell extra chicks to the local feed store. Althought this year they are "mutts" next year they won't be.

So that second batch could have been real Ameraucanas. You just need to ask where they got them. If they say hatchery or catalog then they are EE's for sure.
If they say someone local - it could still be EE's, but could be the real deal.

 

[Sillystunt]

by the was straight run is like 80% roo's if not more!
EE's are an ameraucana mix and lay really cooleggs. You probally won't get a true ameraucana unless you go to a breeder~

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Straight run means the chicks are unsexed. 10 out of 10 is pretty bad odds, though. If you want mostly girls, you need to purchase pullets. They cost a bit more, but are vent sexed at the hatchery and should be about 90-95% accurate.

 

[Chicky Tocks]

You weren't necessarily duped. A lot of people think that an Ameracauna lays the blue/green eggs. People don't realize that an EE exist. Before joining BYC, I had Ameracaunas. I bought them from a lady who had Ameracaunas...but then I learned that these were EE's. She probably has no idea that she has EE's and not true bred Ameracaunas. Mine have slate legs, muffs and beards too, but they're still EE's. No matter. One of them lays the most beautiful sky blue egg. The other lays a blue/green egg.

Straight run does tend to net you a lot of roos. However, my son bought 12 chicks from TSC Red Bin straight run and ended up with 9 pullets and one roo!!! Awesome odds! If I ever go to TSC for chicks, I'm taking him to pick mine.

 

[cassie]

I thought Araucanas were the rumpless purebreds and Americaunas were the easter eggers/non purebreds. Am I wrong?
MM tells you in their catalog that the ones they have are strictly for colored eggs and not for showing.

 

[domino7]

I had chickens years ago and always thought I had Ameracaunas until I joined here lol.
Now I know they were EEs.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Araucanas are rumpless and tufted. Ameraucanas are tailed and have muffs & beard; EEs can be anything that somewhere in its background had an ancestor who laid a blue egg. The first two are recognised breeds with specific standards; the later has no standard, and is not recognised.

 

[Kezzie]

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What were the other two?

 

[ChooksChick]

Regarding straight run, if you get them early, you can have your pick. If you get to the bin after others have picked it over and possibly gotten all the ones that looked less rooish...well, you end up with a higher concentration of roos after they begin to age and possibly exhibit more sex characteristics.

If you are looking at a bin of straight run Barred Rocks, for example, you are significantly more likely to get all roos once other people who can recognize a roo from a pullet have gone through it.

If you're early to the bin, you can have your pick and get all the pullet-looking chicks (in BR you look at the spot on the head- smaller and more of a circle is more likely a pullet). This could certainly put someone who doesn't know what to look for in the position of an all-roo bin that is labeled 'straight-run.'

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

What she said.