My first Ameruacana, now what?

[canesisters]

I think he's ADORABLE!

And... being a 'mom' to a little farm FULL of 'just mixes' I would consider his questionable parentage a PLUS!

What's his name? I'd love to see the unusual chickens that will result from your EE hens and their new mystery man.

 

[dianneS]

I guess it will be an experiment to see what his offspring will look like and what color eggs they will lay!

I have a bunch of EE/bantam mixes that pretty much look like EE bantams! They all lay very pretty blue/green eggs. Their daddy was an EE and mom was a mixed bantam with some silkie in her. One of them came out with white feathers and black skin. She's gorgeous and lays the blue green eggs.

It will be interesting to see what I get from this guy. I've never had a lavender bird before. My previous EE roo was producing a lot of the same looking offspring so now I'll get some variety in the flock!

Any chance the brown egg gene with the blue/green egg gene might produce a light olive or a different shade of green or brown?

 

[Chris09]

I hate to say it but he doesn't look Self Blue ("lavender").
The rooster in the pictures has way too much Silver in his plumage to be a Self Blue.
With the amount of Silver he looks like a very light Silver Blue. Here is the Silver Blue pattern on a Old English and I thing your rooster is a lighter version of this color pattern.

Chris

 

[key west chick]

If he is truely rumpless, and not just missing tail feathers, he very well could be a true ARUACANA, not Ameraucana, even with his single comb. Since lavender is still a project in both breeds, he could be a cull since he had a single comb. I have had many single combed lavender Ameraucanas hatch out from pea combed parents. They are not the standard, but still true Ameraucanas. If he has a tail, and just his feathers have been pulled out, hes most likely a true lavender Ameraucana, just not to the standards.

 

[BBrock]

If he is lavender or self blue he's still an EE. If its not a recognized color to the standard it is an EE.

 

[cashdl]

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In the Araucana world we don't call them EE. It is too confusing. We figure, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, its a duck no matter what color it is. Now straight combs do pop up every once in a while in the araucana. Also some seem to think that if a bird has a straight comb it can't possibly be carring the blue egg gene. I think we might do well to remember, at least for those who were aware, that the original blue egg laying birds that went into making the araucana were straight combed, as was 95% of all the blue egg layers in South America at the time the araucana was being created so to speak. One science paper with very little documented breeding exercises behind it does not a fact make.

The Standard of Perfection is a basis for breeding and showing, in the araucana breed 75% to 95% of all hatched araucana do not match the standard of perfection, whether in color, having a tail, or lacking tufts. It does not make them any other breed, nor does it make them a mutt. They are by their very nature a breed that does not breed true. They are Araucana. The Araucana was an Araucana before there was a standard. In fact one of the colors that was fairly prevelant in the araucana when it was created, was a red pyle type color. That fact is well documented. The red pyle is not an accepted color in the araucana today.

I breed, raise, and show the rumpless tufted araucana. I have over 200 of them running around my farm. Most do not meet the SOP. I own a copy of the SOP, even the newest one, your bird appears to me to be a project lavender araucana.

Enjoy him he is beautiful.

Lanae

 

[dianneS]

They are by their very nature a breed that does not breed true.

Maybe that is what the woman meant when she gave him to me and said that they can "have straight combs, pea comb, tufts, no tufts, rumpless or tail feathers..."

Perhaps she said Aruacana? I'll have to go back to my emails and see if she said Aruacana or Ameruacana.

your bird appears to me to be a project lavender araucana.

I was also thinking this! A project lavender something anyway! The woman who gave him to me is partial to Lavender birds and she's new to raising chickens and stated that this was one of her first projects and she had a tough time and a low hatch rate this time around. I'm guessing he's a project too.

Thanks so much for the info!​

 

[dianneS]

Oh my goodness gracious. I re-read my emails and she said he was an Aruacana, not Ameruacana! My bad.

So sorry for the confusion, I don't know what I was thinking when I typed that.

The advice and the information has still been helpful. I do think he is a project bird.

The Standard of Perfection is a basis for breeding and showing, in the araucana breed 75% to 95% of all hatched araucana do not match the standard of perfection, whether in color, having a tail, or lacking tufts. It does not make them any other breed, nor does it make them a mutt. They are by their very nature a breed that does not breed true. They are Araucana

This really cleared things up for me and makes sense now considering what I was told about him.

I'll be in touch with his old owner soon and I can ask her some more educated questions now!​