Easter Egger club!

[jerryse]

Cackle has always been honest about their birds, at least they have been for the past several years. In this situation, I think it's the feed store that was pushing them as Ameraucana, or they were working off of some very old/outdated info.
Up until about 1978, Easter Eggers were called Ameraucana. But then the Ameraucana got official recognition as a breed. Hatcheries just never changed their breeding practices or marketing to conform to the new breed standard. They just kept doing what they had always done, and most still do.

That should say they were called Araucana Before Ameraucana were created .

 

[kekstrom]

Cackle has always been honest about their birds, at least they have been for the past several years. In this situation, I think it's the feed store that was pushing them as Ameraucana, or they were working off of some very old/outdated info.
Up until about 1978, Easter Eggers were called Ameraucana. But then the Ameraucana got official recognition as a breed. Hatcheries just never changed their breeding practices or marketing to conform to the new breed standard. They just kept doing what they had always done, and most still do.

Or in my case the uninformed employees just are uninformed... My non-preferred feed store in town, when asked what breeds of chicks they would have, I was told "just the normal breeds". Hmmmm....

 

[Oiseauii]

Hello! We love our easter egger, Nutmeg. She lays a beautiful powder blue egg nearly every day (she takes every 3rd day off, or so).

Here she is:


And here is one of her chicks that just hatched. Can't wait to see how her coloring will turn out.

 

[Sylvester017]

Cackle has always been honest about their birds, at least they have been for the past several years. In this situation, I think it's the feed store that was pushing them as Ameraucana, or they were working off of some very old/outdated info.
Up until about 1978, Easter Eggers were called Ameraucana. But then the Ameraucana got official recognition as a breed. Hatcheries just never changed their breeding practices or marketing to conform to the new breed standard. They just kept doing what they had always done, and most still do.

That should say they were called Araucana Before Ameraucana were created .

Or in my case the uninformed employees just are uninformed... My non-preferred feed store in town, when asked what breeds of chicks they would have, I was told "just the normal breeds". Hmmmm....

ALL THE BIRDS/BREEDS ARE LOVELY. IT'S A SHAME THE CONFUSION CONTINUES AFTER DECADES OF EXPLANATIONS. WONDER IF IT WILL EVER END?

 

[junebuggena]

ALL THE BIRDS/BREEDS ARE LOVELY. IT'S A SHAME THE CONFUSION CONTINUES AFTER DECADES OF EXPLANATIONS. WONDER IF IT WILL EVER END?

Not until hatcheries and feed stores stop misinforming people...

 

[crissycriss]

A couple of my EEs.

 

[jerryse]

Here are my breeders of auto sexing EE .

 

[love laugh farm]

Does grass even grow in Arlington? Wow,yea crossing fingers you don't have a roo. WAY to go on teaching your kids outside the box! I can hear the 9-1-1 call now at first crow!

There's actually quite a few, I know of a few that have had hens for years, never having the cert required, and with just privacy fences up and no one has ever known

but they have had hens for over 10 years, take good care of them and nobody's known so it doesn't bother them. But booooy people's faces when they do find out!

 

[love laugh farm]

Every feed store in my area says the same thing--they just don't know any better! One kept insisting their birds were NOT EE, but that they would lay various colored eggs.
(A pure Ameraucana lays only blue) --I finally got them to tell me where they got their babies and they handed me a Cackle catalog. The catalog was very deceptively written--a whole page describing Ameraucanas and one sentence saying, "what we sell are Easter Eggers". Easter Eggers are wonderful --but it astonishes me that so many places that sell baby chicks don't know the difference between breeds.

Exactly! I had to explain the difference to the guyat the feed store downtown and he was amazed, difficult explaining it when you can't remember everything you've written and printed! lol

 

[love laugh farm]

Here are my breeders of auto sexing EE .

HOW DO YOU GET AUTOSEXING EE'S???