Differences EE, Ameraucana, & Araucana * Pls post pics*

[4Hgirl]

I have a cockerel who now has slate\blue legs but when he was younger his legs were definitely greenish while his three siblings legs were slate/blue at that time. I am wondering if he might not carry the blue egg gene as I read the roosters with green legs only sometimes do. I want to breed for APA standard and for blue eggs, so wondering if he should culled.

 

[Hinotori]

I have a cockerel who now has slate\blue legs but when he was younger his legs were definitely greenish while his three siblings legs were slate/blue at that time. I am wondering if he might not carry the blue egg gene as I read the roosters with green legs only sometimes do. I want to breed for APA standard and for blue eggs, so wondering if he should culled. 

Post a picture of him? And you can check bottom of the feet to see what color the skin is

 

[4Hgirl]

Post a picture of him? And you can check bottom of the feet to see what color the skin is

 

[4Hgirl]

Post a picture of him? And you can check bottom of the feet to see what color the skin is

This was a few months ago when his legs looked green. He is supposed to be blue wheaten but I think he is wheaten.

 

[Hinotori]

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There is no blue feather gene in him. He looks like he may have had a wheaten parent, duckwing, or partridge. You are correct and he has green legs. Yellow skin is recessive and will hide and show up later down the road in offspring if you breed him to a purebred hen.

The teenage picture of him tells me he's probably an EE. Even my EEs that I bred wheaten ameraucana to hatchery EE "americana' have had better coloring and have looked like ameraucanas. Several different color varieties in chickens have similar colored males, but the females are very different looking.

EE cockerel showing the wheaten heritage.




Wheaten ameraucana cockerel. That's a wheaten pullet behind him.

 

[Hinotori]

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Here is a wheaten rooster that is started to have his beard turn black. His tail isn't very good. He carried it to high.

 

[4Hgirl]

There is no blue feather gene in him. He looks like he may have had a wheaten parent, duckwing, or partridge. You are correct and he has green legs. Yellow skin is recessive and will hide and show up later down the road in offspring if you breed him to a purebred hen.

The teenage picture of him tells me he's probably an EE. Even my EEs that I bred wheaten ameraucana to hatchery EE "americana' have had better coloring and have looked like ameraucanas. Several different color varieties in chickens have similar colored males, but the females are very different looking.

So the green legs as an adolescent cockerel makes him an EE? Also what if my daughter shows him at the fair? They wouldn't know he used to have green legs but is there something else about him that makes him EE?
How about the blue egg gene? I have some leghorns that I would like to breed and get some blue egg layer chicks from so would he pass on the gene? Do you all think he would be good for that at least rather than breeding him for pure bred am?
Basically I have too many cockerels and my husband is hard on me to get rid of a couple so I have to justify keeping them or get rid of them. If they can't breed or show they have to go.

 

[Hinotori]

 

There is no blue feather gene in him. He looks like he may have had a wheaten parent, duckwing, or partridge. You are correct and he has green legs. Yellow skin is recessive and will hide and show up later down the road in offspring if you breed him to a purebred hen.

The teenage picture of him tells me he's probably an EE. Even my EEs that I bred wheaten ameraucana to hatchery EE "americana' have had better coloring and have looked like ameraucanas. Several different color varieties in chickens have similar colored males, but the females are very different looking. 

So the green legs as an adolescent cockerel makes him an EE?  Also what if my daughter shows him at the fair? They wouldn't know he used to have green legs but is there something else about him that makes him EE?
How about the blue egg gene? I have some leghorns that I would like to breed and get some blue egg layer chicks from so would he pass on the gene? Do you all think he would be good for that at least rather than breeding him for pure bred am?
Basically I have too many cockerels and my husband is hard on me to get rid of a couple so I have to justify keeping them or get rid of them. If they can't breed or show they have to go.

His legs look green to me in the older picture. They should be a true grey. The teenage picture is very telling because he looks nothing like an ameraucana in it. Coloring is all wrong. He may or may not carry the blue egg gene. You find out by breeding him to those leghorns. If the offspring all lay blue he has two copies. If half do he has one copy. You could get green instead of blue if he carries brown as well.

 

[Hinotori]

People who sell mixed birds as true ameraucana really annoy me. With most of them that's like selling a dog that is 10% german shepherd and 90% mix of several other breeds as a pure bred german shepherd just because it has one trait associated with german shepherds. It should fall under false advertising.

 

[aart]

People who sell mixed birds as true ameraucana really annoy me. With most of them that's like selling a dog that is 10% german shepherd and 90% mix of several other breeds as a pure bred german shepherd just because it has one trait associated with german shepherds. It should fall under false advertising.

Ditto Dat^^^^

When the hatcheries allude to Ameraucana and/or Araucana, then their re-sellers(especially mine) just call them that....is even more annoying.

I've dubbed them AmeraKinda.