How To tell an easter egger from an araucana and an ameracauna?

[speckledhen]

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Here is the paragraph from their site. No Ameraucana lays brown eggs. They say their blacks and whites are selected to standard, but the statement that they've never seen a blue egg makes me wonder. I have one Ameraucana that lays an egg that no one could say had any green in it.

Ameraucanas are sometimes called the "Easter Egg Chicken" because they lay green, blue or olive eggs as well as brown. Many places list "Araucanas" but they are really "Ameraucanas." Araucanas are rumpless and have ear tufts (tufts of feathers that grow from the ear). Ameraucanas, however, have a tail and a beard or muff (which is a group of feathers located under the chin). Our Ameraucanas that are mixed colors are not of APA Standard quality. They lay an assortment of colors of eggs though only eggs of "greenish" shades are incubated. Our Black Ameraucanas and White Ameraucanas are both selected for the APA Standard. While the APA Standard calls for a blue egg, I've yet to ever see in anyone's Ameraucana flock what I would call a "blue" egg. Most I've seen are shades of "greenish blue". This is why we list ours as laying a greenish blue egg. Ameraucanas have a pea comb.​

 

[Mahonri]

I agree with Cyn, there are Araucanas and Ameraucanas that lay BLUE, BLUE eggs.

Guess it depends upon who you get them from!

 

[bikergirl]

I think this can help you out 2!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=128806

 

[hoppy]

I read and maybe this is wrong, that you can tell what color egg an EE will lay by the color of the legs. greenish legs, green eggs, gray legs, blue eggs. I don't think this is true of other breeds, just EE.
I just bought 3 chicks, EE , one with grayish legs, one with green and one yellow, so we will see (that is if they are girls)

 

[speckledhen]

No, sorry, leg color is not related to egg color.

 

[bikergirl]

Ok I just have to show off my new littl baby that hatched last night. 5/25 he/she is an Araucana from http://www.skyblueegg.com/
Here is my pretty little double tufted, rumpless Araucana!

 

[TimG]

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One day, I bought a used truck. I told me wife it was blue. I went to register it at the Town Hall and when I filled out the form, I entered "blue" under color.

When I got it home, my wife told me it was green. "Really?" I said "Looks blue to me."

"Green" she said.

 

[speckledhen]

There you have it! Men and women see color differently. Yup. It's why I put my eggs against my steel gray house (no blue tint) to see where they lie on the scale. So, what color is that egg at 11:00 position? That is from one of my Blue Ameraucana hens. The green one on the right is from my Barred EE hen, Panda. No touchup on that photograph at all. That was one of her very first eggs, so the color is lighter now, but still true blue.

 

[ChickenWisperer]

Its easy to tell a true bred Ameraucana or Araucana from EEs....


Araucana and Ameraucanas come in so many standard colors. EEs will not, MOST usually. Plus, Ameraucanas, EEs, And Araucanas almost always have a different body shape, from my experience.

 

[Mom2Cool]

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Who laid that pink egg in the center???

Seriously I just love when I see a basket with an array of colored eggs like that..... It's adorable really.

Now since we're on the topic here of Ameraucana's &/or EE's Are the EE's able to produce the blue eggs??? The only reason I asked is because I'd bought hatching eggs on Ebay & they were said to be Ameraucana's. The true breed isn't a big deal to me & the eggs wheren't all that much for them to be costly for a "Ameraucana" & I was really just looking for the rainbow color of the eggs not the particulars of the chicken.

And I agree that my Buff Orphingtons lay a very light colored egg & even more light is the eggs coming from my Black Austrolorp..... It was funny when I read you say that before because I'd just thought the other day on the way in with 4 different eggs in my hands & the Austrolorp's the lightest that it was more pink than brown like the rest.