Boonie Stomper
Crowing
Here’s a screenshot from Hoover’s Hatchery which I believe most TSC use. Note that real Ameraucanas ONLY lay blue eggs and i need the screenshot from Hoover’s they say the can lay blue green or brown.
Point made. Although $2.50 didn't seem expensive to me, and I'm still delighted with getting them and the blue and lavender orps also at that price ( perhaps by accident!) - I hunted down their local chick days circular and it wet to Hoovers, showed easter eggers; the store did have it written americanas. Sigh...Pretty much what they all said.
When you buy from a feed store, the likelihood is that they are selling EE, especially if they misspell the breed with the 'I' in the middle. True ameraucana are more expensive than EE and araucana are even more expensive than ameraucana. Araucana and ameraucana follow a breed standard, and EE do not. EE can look like anything, so long as they're a mix that was bred with the intention of carrying the blue egg gene.
On the bright side I learned these are already 8 to 12 weeks old, thus explaing why no chicks complaining about the teperature in my crude makeshift brooder being 70-80°F.