Is This An Araucana?

[CibolaChooks]

First off, the ameraucana is a white skinned bird and will never have yellow skin or green legs. Green legs come from a yellow skinned bird with blue over the yellow. Yellow and blue make green. Something you will not get from an ameraucana. That right there tells me that whether she is close to the breed standard in plumage color or not she is a mixed breed bird.

Lanae

ahhhhh i see said the newbie... so where does the slate grey legs come from. same place or no.

 

[CibolaChooks]

First off, the ameraucana is a white skinned bird and will never have yellow skin or green legs. Green legs come from a yellow skinned bird with blue over the yellow. Yellow and blue make green. Something you will not get from an ameraucana. That right there tells me that whether she is close to the breed standard in plumage color or not she is a mixed breed bird.

Lanae

Ahhh i see. i did not know that said the newbie.. leg color as a first year person has been confusing me as to why some are different than they should be thanks for teaching me something new lanae.

I went outside and picked mine up and they definitely have the white skin when you pull the feathers apart and look. Your right most of mine do have more greenish looking legs. I thought that was weird also. i have several breeds with 3 or 4 having different leg color than they should have. I was under the assumption that they have slate Grey legs. When i go onto the site http://www.ameraucana.org/standard.html they don't even mention color when they talk about legs and toes. But all of the pics on the site do have slate Grey looking legs that can get pretty dark so i felt OK in making that assumption.

You are wrong about the next post though. Your pic you posted is of a bantam mine is a large fowl. i ordered all large fowl and only a cpl impulse buys snuck some bantams into my flock. Here is a pic of a large fowl wheaten female. They do have black feathers in there primaries I'm not sure if it can only be 2 though. i don't know anything really. I was already thinking the color in the hackle was a disqualifying factor if i wanted to breed.. thanks for teaching me that also. here is a pic of the large fowl standard. definitely no color in hackles. also I'm thinking my birds wings don't angle down as much as these pics show. Thanks for the knowledge and picking apart my bird for me lol. i need people to do that for me. I'm afraid my 5 week old i posted a pic of also has the hackle color too. so sad. ahhhh.

Ive learned so much and trust me next year i will order some pairs of a specific color and make sure the breeder fallows the standards. I want to Breed for fun mostly and my familys survival. But if your going to do something you might as well do it right. RIGHT>
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[Pele]

Ahhh i see. i did not know that said the newbie.. leg color as a first year person has been confusing me as to why some are different than they should be thanks for teaching me something new lanae.

I went outside and picked mine up and they definitely have the white skin when you pull the feathers apart and look. Your right most of mine do have more greenish looking legs. I thought that was weird also. i have several breeds with 3 or 4 having different leg color than they should have. I was under the assumption that they have slate Grey legs. When i go onto the site http://www.ameraucana.org/standard.html they don't even mention color when they talk about legs and toes. But all of the pics on the site do have slate Grey looking legs that can get pretty dark so i felt OK in making that assumption.

You are wrong about the next post though. Your pic you posted is of a bantam mine is a large fowl. i ordered all large fowl and only a cpl impulse buys snuck some bantams into my flock. Here is a pic of a large fowl wheaten female. They do have black feathers in there primaries I'm not sure if it can only be 2 though. i don't know anything really. I was already thinking the color in the hackle was a disqualifying factor if i wanted to breed.. thanks for teaching me that also. here is a pic of the large fowl standard. definitely no color in hackles. also I'm thinking my birds wings don't angle down as much as these pics show. Thanks for the knowledge and picking apart my bird for me lol. i need people to do that for me. I'm afraid my 5 week old i posted a pic of also has the hackle color too. so sad. ahhhh.

Ive learned so much and trust me next year i will order some pairs of a specific color and make sure the breeder fallows the standards. I want to Breed for fun mostly and my familys survival. But if your going to do something you might as well do it right. RIGHT>
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I'm not a breeder myself, but I believe that the more black bleeding into the feathers outside of the tail, the more points will be deducted from the bird. The breeder who chose to show the above bird may have done so in the hopes that her body conformation was so correct that it would collect enough points to outweight the coloration deductions.

Or perhaps she's been entered into a really casual show. Anything's possible. You may want to try talking to the folks in the Ameraucana thread in the Breeds forum. There's a lot of REALLY amazing resources of knowledge over there. They are really passionate folks about their birds.

 

[philbfarm]

Well Stella...the original bird in question just surprised me with her first egg. It is a beautiful blue-green egg.

 

[dretd]

Well Stella...the original bird in question just surprised me with her first egg. It is a beautiful blue-green egg.

Congrats! It looks pretty big for a first effort too!

 

[juliechick]

Well, that tells you she isn't pure Araucana. They lay only blue eggs.

 

[Pele]

Well, that tells you she isn't pure Araucana. They lay only blue eggs.

x2

It's pretty much the conclusion I think we came to earlier in this thread. She's a mixed bird, referred to as an EE. They are fine layers, and wonderful additions to the flock.

 

[philbfarm]

Actually, since my last post, I refer to her as a "mix" or an "Araucana mix". I was asked to post a picture of her eggs when she started to lay - and did. I was aware that Araucana's lay sky blue eggs, and honestly did not expect one. I believe my "mix" named Stella did a magnificant job, thanks dretd - it was a great first effort!

 

[Pele]

Actually, since my last post, I refer to her as a "mix" or an "Araucana mix". I was asked to post a picture of her eggs when she started to lay - and did. I was aware that Araucana's lay sky blue eggs, and honestly did not expect one. I believe my "mix" named Stella did a magnificant job, thanks dretd - it was a great first effort!

Yep, it's been a really fun thread, imo. And I really enjoyed the fact that you posted the final results, so to speak. It's a really pretty egg, almost like she's taking the whole "Easter" pastel thing very seriously! Heehee.

Right now I'm nervously waiting to see if my newest EE will lay me a green or bluish egg. Biting my nails over here!

 

[philbfarm]

Thanks so much Pele. I also have an EE (Iris) that will hopefully start laying any day now. I'd love to have a second blue/green egg in my basket!