EE or Ameraucana?

[nicalandia]

I just realized we have been thru this, here is the info I have about Easter Eggers in the USA that go back to 1940s

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/easter-eggers-and-ameraucanas-same-thing.1406935/page-10

 

[MysteryChicken]

Is what I call EE shaming, what I find interesting is that the Amerucana creators used Easter Eggers(which have been in the USA about 40 years before the creation of the Ameraucana breed) to create them.

Very true. I think of Easter Eggers as Pre Ameraucanas.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Most people just call anything that doesn’t fit a standard that lays a colored egg an EE. Technically yes it’s an ameraucana that doesn’t fit any standard. If you breed a Rhode Island Red to a Rhode Island white it’s just a mixed breed sex link.

RIWs are the White version of RIR. Just breeding two of the same breeds of different colors, so not a mixed breed, just mixed colors.

 

[RaineyTN]

Kind of my point, it wouldn’t meet standards for either variety but technically it’s same breed.

 

[nicalandia]

RIWs are the White version of RIR. Just breeding two of the same breeds of different colors, so not a mixed breed, just mixed colors.

Actually RIW and RIR are a separate breed not just color.

Check this

 

[MysteryChicken]

Actually RIW and RIR are a separate breed not just color.

Check this

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Now I know.

I could've sworn they were the same.

Why give them the name Rhode Island White? Just gives the assumption that they're the same breed. Makes it a bit confusing.

 

[nicalandia]

Now I know.

I could've sworn they were the same.

Why give them the name Rhode Island White? Just gives the assumption that they're the same breed. Makes it a bit confusing.

They were Originally bred/created in Rhode Island

 

[MysteryChicken]

They were Originally bred/created in Rhode Island

Still could've named it after a town, or who created it.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

So the reason I'm asking is because a breeder I'm getting chicks from next spring sells Ameraucana chicks (I think they're like 17 a piece) bit she herself said that they're in a mixed color pen. Everything else fits the standard for them, but they will be mixed colors most likely.

I kinda want to get some, but don't if people are just going to insist on telling me I got expensive EEs and just over all argue with me

 

[EmmaRainboe]

So I've recently seen a lot of birds dubbed EEs because they weren't a recognized color for Ameraucanas.

So my question is: If a bird is genetically pure for Ameraucana, but comes from a pen of mixed colors, does that still mean that they are considered an Ameraucana? Or are they automatically still just an EE because their color isn't accepted by the standard?

Most breeders will tell you they are EEs, because they aren't one of the nine accepted varieties; but I'm of the opinion of if a bird has two parents of the same breed, I see no reason the offspring wouldn't be either. Just a mixed colored. But if you're wanting Ameraucanas, I don't really see why you would want mixed colored ones?

When you cross a Light brahma x a buff brahma, you still have a brahma, just a mixed colored one.