Lets get something straight about EEs, Ameraucanas and Araucanas

[MountainFarmPeeps]

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Hey Math Ace....great post. It's true. Some of us here are newer...and there are seasoned members who could run circles around us in regards to being knowledgeable about the ins and outs of chicken breeds, heritage or whatever else. But then....step out of this forum and I could run circles around them when it comes to like, say, women's health and wellness or birth issues. Maybe Mathace could blow someone away with his/her math skills....I know we've got to have some lawyers or accountants here...most likely somebody knows a bunch about plumbing...I can see from the coop pages that a lot of folks have great backgrounds in building/carpentry. This is what makes online communities AWESOME. Everyone has something to bring to the table, we all have different backgrounds and knowledge bases. We're all coming here for the love of chickens...some of us have been at the "chicken table" for a lot longer than others have. SO...maybe some of us aren't coming here with the "inside know-how"...but what we lack in experience, we more than make up for with our love for chickens and our quest to know about them all that someone else would be willing to pass on.

So, seasoned memebers.....don't get sick of telling us noobs what's what....if we were satisfied with misconceptions on google and the crap that hatcheries try and tell people...we'd stick to google and hatchery websites. We want MORE than that...so we came here.

 

[rancher hicks]

First let me say I'd still like to see some pics. Second I've read alot about chickens, know some things but have learned some things from this site.. My brain is like a computer and sometimes lacks space for all the stuff I've learned and can't hold some of the stuff I learn. So I come here and ask questions that maybe should begin w/ "can someone help me remember what I know about this or that?" However I can't remember everything I have read about every breed or where I've read it, so I come here and hope responders don't reply, DUH! And there are alot of newbies and w/o them we'd have no forum. How many time I've read stuff that should be common knowledge but simply hasn't been learned yet.

Now back to Americauna, aruacan, EE. I've never care to own any of these. Until now. I sell eggs and want colored eggs to improve sales. I donate every cent to an orphanage in India, through my church. Since I am going to get some of these I want nice and pure birds. I don't expect they cost anymore to keep than crossbreeds. So who's got nice Americaunas and who has nice Aruacanas. PM me and I may buy some hatching eggs.

As for everyone on this post, I don't try to purposely @##$% off anyone, I just seem to be real good at it. I definitely care about the people here and sometimes speak the truth. Not always a good thing.
Now do I get those pics or don't I?

All the best


Rancher

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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A tail on an exhibition Araucana is a disqualification.

 

[Illia]

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A tail on an exhibition Araucana is a disqualification.

In America it is. In Australia, I've yet to see a rumpless Araucana.


As for the subject itself, I always have this want and need to see a sticky talking about this - But remember, a lot of people don't care, don't want to know, don't even understand that Ameraucanas are NOT Easter Eggers, or/and don't read stuff like this, because it is "too confusing" to them.

I think the easiest thing to do is show a photo guide. Show the most common EE hen color, the most common EE rooster colors, then show Ameraucana colors. Describe the most important and common factor being that they are NOT from hatcheries or feedstores.

I think the most audience drawing thing is to actually ask as a title, Did your Ameraucana come from a feedstore or hatchery? - Something catchy that people will relate to.

 

[DaughterOfEve]

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for great picks, visit ameracauna breeder's club at www.ameraucana.org. There is also a breeders list where you can get pure bred birds. I was also duped at a local feed store, though I doubt they knew either. They were just adverting wat the hatchery told them. We still love our EE, even the judge at the local fair called her an ameracauna. There is a lot of misinfo out there.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

ok, so I have some chickens (not using that word) that lay a baby blue or sky blue egg...very pretty. I call them the Ameraucanas...then one day my cuckoo maran hen got into the wrong hen house and I just left her there for a week or two..not thinking..when I got her eggs incubated last year, this year the chicks have started laying and their eggs are OLIVE GREEN..boy was I surprised. I thought the chick would lay what ever color egg it came out of...I FELT SO STUPID WHEN I GOT ON HERE AND FOUND OUT DIFFERENT...but I call them EE's. Am I right in doing this? Please don't yell at me for now knowing the difference. MY Ameraucanas had the muff and all of that and look like what I have seen pics of on here.

 

[Goose and Fig]

To make matters even MORE confusing- there ARE hatcheries with true ameraucana- Sandhill (I think) and MyPetChicken. (eggs only) Maybe more! I never really considered Sandhill a run of the mill hatchery though.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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Most chicks from most hatcheries are production type chickens, no matter the breed. Some hatcheries claim to be breeding to the Standard of Perfection. Here is a good difference between hatchery and exhibition quality. Neither are my photos. The first is an artist idea of what a Buff Orpington should look like. I believe this photo is owned by Watts Publishing and use to be in every hatchery catalog.

This is a photo of Jody Hink's Buff Orpingtons, one of our BYC moderators.

This is a photo of a production type Buff Orpington:

The difference is very clear. Both are Buff Orpington, just one is bred to the Standard and the other is not. Same with most hatchery stock. Many of the hatcheries introduced hens of various breeds to their original male green/blue egg layers. The male pasted his egg color on to his daughters and so forth. Hope this helps new eggs to understand.

 

[Illia]

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I never really considered them as a hatchery. . . But MyPetChicken is indeed a hatchery with Ameraucanas. But really, why buy eggs from a hatchery?! The point of getting from hatcheries is the laziness and want to get just plain chicks right away. If someone is looking for eggs, got to a real Ameraucana breeder.

 

[haTHOR]

jimsfarmstand...

forgive my ignorance...but EE's seem to have more in common than just a blue green egg...they all have some pretty serious similarities as far as how they look. at least to me. why is that?

jimsfarmstand wrote:

Many of the hatcheries introduced hens of various breeds to their original male green/blue egg layers. The male pasted his egg color on to his daughters and so forth. Hope this helps new eggs to understand.​