Can you tell me whether my hen is an EE or and Ameraucana. She seems to have the same coloring as the one in this thread but with a full beard. I have been ignorantly calling her an Araucana which she is not. She has slate grey legs. Thanks for setting me straight once and for all. Please excuse the missing feathers in her neck, one of my Wellsummers has been picking on her.Actually, most hatcheries are breeding from lines that predate the Ameraucana breed, as we know it. They don't have a bunch of true Ameraucana that are being crossbred. They are breeding the types of birds that the Ameraucana breed was derived from. It's the Ameraucana breed that has Easter Egger in the lines, not the other way around.