EE with single comb

[Illia]

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ok thanks, what color would you call the hen in the second to last pic.

Looks like an Easter Egger, so I'd call it wheaten crossed with something else. That, or just a very poorly colored Wheaten Ameraucana.

 

[phasianidae]

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ok thanks, what color would you call the hen in the second to last pic.

Looks like an Easter Egger, so I'd call it wheaten crossed with something else. That, or just a very poorly colored Wheaten Ameraucana.

ok, yeah she's pretty dark, what would i get if i crossed her with my columbianish rooster?

 

[Illia]

sigh. We're going way off topic now.

You'd get birds that look like her, but with a lot of white here and there.

 

[phasianidae]

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sorry ok thanks

 

[rtroxel]

A triple comb is not a standard kind of comb. It is actually just a really bad pea comb

You see them on hatchery stuff all the time, especially brahmas and ameraucanas. EEs are just crossed up ameraucanas. And as someone was saying Auracanas have no muff or beard, and for that matter, no tail (rumpless). An EE is just something crossed with an auracana a long time ago to get the green egg gene (which is dominant) and the green eggs. I would guess that if you got 50 EE pullets from the hatcheries, at least 4 or 5 would lay brown eggs

and you'd probably have at least 40 different colors...

 

[phasianidae]

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yup, it's spelled Araucana

 

[Medicine Man]

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Common misconception. Typical hatchery stock EEs are actually directly descended from the Quechua of S. America and just a bit more diluted with production blood (although, nowadays, they probably are closer to the original than the native chickens down there are). They were called Ameraucanas long before anybody had ever conceived the notion of the "purebred" APA-Ameraucana, which was derived from these EEs. So in essence, most hatchery EEs are "more pure" than a true Ameraucana. This is why hatcheries will never stop selling them as Ameraucanas. It's not a matter of false advertising, it's a matter of they started using the name first. It's also the blue egg gene, not green. Blue and brown make green. It's unfortunate that the blue egg gene is dominant because it has led to a huge mess of the Quechua. (Ketch-u-wah). Or Ket-chu-wah?

 

[Illia]

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Common misconception. Typical hatchery stock EEs are actually directly descended from the Quechua of S. America and just a bit more diluted with production blood (although, nowadays, they probably are closer to the original than the native chickens down there are). They were called Ameraucanas long before anybody had ever conceived the notion of the "purebred" APA-Ameraucana, which was derived from these EEs. So in essence, most hatchery EEs are "more pure" than a true Ameraucana. This is why hatcheries will never stop selling them as Ameraucanas. It's not a matter of false advertising, it's a matter of they started using the name first. It's also the blue egg gene, not green. Blue and brown make green. It's unfortunate that the blue egg gene is dominant because it has led to a huge mess of the Quechua. (Ketch-u-wah). Or Ket-chu-wah?

Wow, someone else who can explain Easter Eggers so well.

Except, hatcheries started calling them Americanas, not Ameraucanas. . . And they continue to call them so nowadays not because of their "original coined name" but because such name sells better. Who wants to know their chickens from a "promising" hatchery aren't purebred?

 

[phasianidae]

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Common misconception. Typical hatchery stock EEs are actually directly descended from the Quechua of S. America and just a bit more diluted with production blood (although, nowadays, they probably are closer to the original than the native chickens down there are). They were called Ameraucanas long before anybody had ever conceived the notion of the "purebred" APA-Ameraucana, which was derived from these EEs. So in essence, most hatchery EEs are "more pure" than a true Ameraucana. This is why hatcheries will never stop selling them as Ameraucanas. It's not a matter of false advertising, it's a matter of they started using the name first. It's also the blue egg gene, not green. Blue and brown make green. It's unfortunate that the blue egg gene is dominant because it has led to a huge mess of the Quechua. (Ketch-u-wah). Or Ket-chu-wah?

Wow, someone else who can explain Easter Eggers so well.

Except, hatcheries started calling them Americanas, not Ameraucanas. . . And they continue to call them so nowadays not because of their "original coined name" but because such name sells better. Who wants to know their chickens from a "promising" hatchery aren't purebred?

I have seen hatcheries call them both

 

[Medicine Man]

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They are my pet project, my little piece of Quechua Indian culture frozen in time before it is destroyed. However, I need a rooster because the one I had was not correct enough of a throwback.

Except, hatcheries started calling them Americanas, not Ameraucanas. . . And they continue to call them so nowadays not because of their "original coined name" but because such name sells better. Who wants to know their chickens from a "promising" hatchery aren't purebred?

I don't know. You are correct that they often are called "Americana" nowaday, and it would make sense that it's intended to capitalize on the name now, but back in the introduction of this "new & improved" Quechua, it was called Ameraucana as in American Araucana (as opposed to UK's Araucana, the one that does indeed have muffs, beard, tails, not at all our Araucana. I think this was in the 1930s?​