Help! Are these Americaunas, or Easter Eggers?

[Little Farm Girl]

I'm not trying to be complicated. But for instance. If I bred a blue Americauna to a brown red Ameraucauna, would the chick not be an ameraucauna because it's not an APA recognized color? I feel like that's saying if I breed a chocolate lab to a yellow lab would the babies not be a lab because the parents are 2 different colors, but the same breed?

 

[Little Farm Girl]

So really what I'm asking is are our chickens not Ameraucanas(regardless of how it's spelled) because their colors?

 

[FowlStuff]

I'm not trying to be complicated. But for instance. If I bred a blue Americauna to a brown red Ameraucauna, would the chick not be an ameraucauna because it's not an APA recognized color?

Yes (except for the part about being an APA recognized variety). According to the definition our club came up with many years ago at an annual meeting in MO if it "doesn’t meet a variety description or breed true at least 50% of the time it is considered an Easter Egg chicken". I was there and I believe I was the only one, in the room, that didn't agree, but the majority view won out and it is pretty much accepted as the final word. I was the club's secretary at the time and wrote the definition/description.
Personal opinions and those of the APA, ABA and many breed clubs may differ.

 

[Little Farm Girl]

Hmm, well thank you for responding!!