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Comments about these two breeds from feathersite.com for your reading pleasure:
Araucanas, Ameraucanas and Easter Egg Chickens
I don't have any purebred Araucanas. These rumpless (tail-less) and ear-tufted birds from South America are very hard to find. They are known for laying blue eggs. Most of the so-called Araucanas in the US are mixes that carry some of the original genes and lay variously colored eggs: blue, green, or pinkish. These birds are sometimes (and more honestly) sold as Easter Egg chickens. They come in white and many other colors. The American Poultry Association also recognizes a bird called the Ameraucana, which lays colored eggs and has muffs and a beard, not ear tufts, and comes in standardized color varieties. The Araucana and Ameraucana also come in a bantam form. And if you want to get even more confused, look at the (probably ancestral) Rapanui.
I have read this at the feathersite as well. Very informative and good information. I am lucky enough to have an easter-egger that lays green eggs even though she was labeled an ameraucana by the hatchery. She looks very much like the description that hypnofrogstevie posted about his. Could be that your 4 just came from the same batch. Good luck with them, stevie. I hope they lay colored eggs for you. Sometimes easter eggers just lay plain brown ones.
A good person to talk to about purebred ameraucanas and the different color varieties that are being worked on is soonerdog. He has a lot of valuable information on the breed.
Comments about these two breeds from feathersite.com for your reading pleasure:
Araucanas, Ameraucanas and Easter Egg Chickens
I don't have any purebred Araucanas. These rumpless (tail-less) and ear-tufted birds from South America are very hard to find. They are known for laying blue eggs. Most of the so-called Araucanas in the US are mixes that carry some of the original genes and lay variously colored eggs: blue, green, or pinkish. These birds are sometimes (and more honestly) sold as Easter Egg chickens. They come in white and many other colors. The American Poultry Association also recognizes a bird called the Ameraucana, which lays colored eggs and has muffs and a beard, not ear tufts, and comes in standardized color varieties. The Araucana and Ameraucana also come in a bantam form. And if you want to get even more confused, look at the (probably ancestral) Rapanui.
I have read this at the feathersite as well. Very informative and good information. I am lucky enough to have an easter-egger that lays green eggs even though she was labeled an ameraucana by the hatchery. She looks very much like the description that hypnofrogstevie posted about his. Could be that your 4 just came from the same batch. Good luck with them, stevie. I hope they lay colored eggs for you. Sometimes easter eggers just lay plain brown ones.
A good person to talk to about purebred ameraucanas and the different color varieties that are being worked on is soonerdog. He has a lot of valuable information on the breed.
