My ameracaunas are yellow legged!

[rebecca100]

Okay so I just hatched out some "pure" ameracaunas which I know know are EE's but aren't EE's at least supposed to have green legs? These are properly muffed, different colors and yellow legged all except the darkest one that is green legged. Both parents are darkish(maybe green) legged and muffed. The hen has a backsweep to her feathers below her ears, but isn't that normal for an EE or could this be a sign of aracauna in the blood somewhere? Otherwise they are beautiful chicks!
Sorry had to edit because I went and made sure what colors the parents legs were.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Your question is rather confusing as you initially refer to them as pure ameraucana, and then begin referring to them as EE.

Ameraucanas have a standard, and the club is very exacting on birds living up to the standard to be called ameraucana. The standard calls for slate legs.

There is a gene that causes white or yellow skin. Birds with white skin will have slate legs if they also carry the gene that causes dark shanks. If the bird has yellow skin, it will instead have willow shanks. (Willow is green.) An ameraucana with yellow or willow shanks has a serious DQ, and would be called an Easter Egger by Ameraucana breeders.

Araucana also have a standard, which includes willow legs for most varieties, and yellow legs for white plumage.

Easter Eggers have no standard; they can have any body type, any skin/leg colour, any plumage colour/pattern. They may or may not have muffs & beard. They dont even have to lay a blue egg--about the only thing they have to have in common is an ancestor who laid a blue egg.

 

[racuda]

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She was being facetious because thats what the seller called them.

 

[Poupoulles]

Is there a correlation between leg color and egg color? I think one of my EEs is laying brown/pink eggs... Some have beards, some dont, some have willow legs, some dont. Is there any way short of a webcam to figure it out? I thought I read that someone had a blue legged EE that laid blue eggs?

 

[rebecca100]

Thank you racuda. that's right. They are easter eggers. My chicks are yellow with yellow legs and muffed. Even though I realize that it is very unlikely, I was wondering if this was caused by aracauna somewhere back in the bloodline and this question was also brought on by the backswept feathers(resemble tufts-not part of the beard or muffs) below the ear of the hen that these chicks are out of. I can't find anywhere if that is common in ameracaunas or EE's or if it could be a sign of aracauna in the bloodline.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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No. Leg colour is inherited independently of egg colour.

Pea comb gene, however, is linked--usually inherited together with the blue eggshell gene. It is possible, although very unlikely (3%) for the genes to be inherited separately. Once crossover is made and either "peacomb and not-blue eggshell" or "not-peacomb & blue eggshell" are on a chromosome, crossing back to the original "peacomb & blue eggshell" is equally unlikely.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Are they tufts? Yes, they could certainly have aracana rather than ameraucana background (although both breeds were developed from the same set of South American breeds, and are thus related.

 

[TimG]

These two chicks are less than a week old. They have the same parents: a Delaware rooster and an Easter Egger hen (called an Ameracauna by the feed store she came from).

I'm wondering what can be determined about the leg coloring genes of the parents. Which is dominant: green or yellow? Either way, both parents must be carrying a recessive gene, right?