I just got Americans....

[mom of silkies]

If its a female you could name her Scarlet.

 

[enola]

Pure bred chickens that lay blue/green eggs are AmerAUcanas (emphisis on no I) or Araucanas. Hatcheries call their Easter eggers Americanas so they can fool people into thinking they are getting purebred chickens so the hatchery can get your money. Personally I think it is fraud and hatcheries should be held accountable.

 

[mom of silkies]

I agree I was dumb enough to fall for it and its messed up!

 

[PapaChaz]

I read Americanas are a breed they only lay bluish eggs and easter eggers are mutts and lay all kinds of colors of eggs and then there are Aracanas which were the original breed that like the Americanas lay only bluish eggs. Mine are Americanas i got them from a special breeder who breeds pure Americanas.

if you got them from a breeder, odds are he/she knows what she's breeding and you're just spelling it incorrectly. Some people just feel the need to correct all things on the internet.

If I was a betting man, and you bought them from a breeder that was really breeding ameraucanas, I'd bet that's what you got, regardless of how you spell it. There are a LOT of people who spell it americana, ameracauna, ameraucana, etc etc. The actual correct spelling for the recognized breed is Ameraucana.

but just because you might have spelled it wrong doesn't mean you bought easter eggers.

Now that I've said that, I will say that there are unscrupulous people out there who will say they have one thing that's usually a little more valuable, but actually have something else. Now if the breeder was spelling it wrong, and he/she is an actual licensed breeder who is supposed to be selling a breed that's recognized as a true purebred breed by the APA (American Poultry Association), then I'd be concerned about whether they were actual purebreds.

You can go here: http://www.ameraucana.org/history.html to the Ameraucana Breeders Club webpage and read up on the history and full descriptions and maybe you'll be able to figure out if you got what you paid for!

Just don't let some internet spelling police convince you because you spelled it wrong you didn't get the pure breed

 

[blkjak]

I bought these eggs for my incubator. Advertised as Ameraucana. Green or blue? I think they are mostly green.

 

[JaceAgain]

Hard to say :/

 

[PapaChaz]

yeah hard to say from the pic, some look blue some look green. could be the lighting, could be the eggs, as jace said, it's hard to tell

 

[blkjak]

Oh well cant count them before they hatch anyway.

 

[blkjak]

Middle of the top row is very green. Not just the lighting.

 

[PapaChaz]

well a direct quote from the american breeders club history page says, and I tried to copy and paste but they have the site fixed so as to prevent it, so I'll just type it verbatim:

"Ameraucanas first and foremost are BLUE EGG layers"

so there ya go, if it's not blue, by THAT it's not Ameraucana