Does anyone have a pic of a real ameraucana?

[amazondoc]

Hey Jean --

Speaking of ameraucana colors -- you've got a pic of a wheaten cockerel with a white face on your site, here:

http://home.sprynet.com/~rribbeck/id10.html

OTOH, the wheaten roos on the ameraucana club site have black faces, here:

http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook_files/lfwheatenm.jpg

and here:

http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook_files/wheatenm.jpg

This difference interests me, since my Ameraucana/EE cockerel looks like he's going to be wheaten, but he also has a white face.

Is either one acceptable under the standard?

 

[pips&peeps]

Wheaten and blue wheaten cockerels have white faces and necks until their adult plumage comes in. That particular variety takes the longest to mature, the muffs and beard are the last feathers to change.

 

[LilPeeps]

Here's a bantam wheaten hen

 

[seedcorn]

to be "pure" don't they have to be a "recognized" color pattern and lay blue eggs? If you have an "unrecognized" color, it's just a chicken. That's why I love the conversations between EE's and the others.

 

[asher]

Can anyone tell me what this lovely lady is considered? She has facial tufts, but she hasn't laid for me, yet so I'm not sure what color eggs she has. She's completely blue, albeit varying colors of blue (darker up top).

She's very shy around me so this is the best piccy I could get of her.

The roo that came with her is a funky color so I'm sure he's an EE.

 

[Sebrightmom]

I love looking at all the Ameraucanas. I just love mine. Here are a couple of pictures.
Here is a picture of my blue rooster. Not the best picture of him. He is molting right now.

Here is a picture of my black rooster with some of his girls.

 

[amazondoc]

pips&peeps :

Wheaten and blue wheaten cockerels have white faces and necks until their adult plumage comes in. That particular variety takes the longest to mature, the muffs and beard are the last feathers to change.

Ohhhhhh. Thanks for that info, very interesting! That's too bad, though -- I really like his little white face, it'll be a shame to lose it!​

 

[herechickchick]

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Depends on what the Breeder says. If you take a true Blue Ameraucana and cross it with a true Buff Ameraucana then you have a pure Ameraucana just not an accepted color. The offspring will lay blue eggs.

 

[amazondoc]

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Yeah, I think ameraucana breeders tend to be extra sensitive on the issue, because of all the confusion there continues to be about araucanas/ameraucanas/EEs. There are many breeds where people would accept a bird with, say, off-color legs as simply a non-show-worthy representative of the breed. But if an ameraucana breeder sees a bird with off-color legs, it's instantly an EE. Whatever!

 

[Wildsky]

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no such thing as "Just a chicken" is there?