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The DO NOT sell ameraucanas. They sell Easter Eggers.
I realize that, but since I was addressing someone at Ideal poultry (I thought), I used their term rather than the BYC-accepted "Easter Egger"...
I have both "Easter Eggers" and some actual Ameraucanas.
My Flock rooster is a Silver Ameraucana, I have a Lavender Ameraucana hen, 2 black split Lav hens, 3 wheatens and then 3 EEs as well.
The nice thing about my hatchery "Easter Eggers" is that they lay much better than my pure Ameraucanas and they are friendlier.
I started my chicken addiction last year with 7 Hatchery "Easter Eggers", and a year and half and MANY birds later, I have decided they are my favorite "breed".
Their term is wrong, they are misleading buyers by advertising ameraucanas/araucanas or however they spell it. The correct term is easter egger.