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I could go out in the garage, jump up and down and call myself a car all day long but that don't make me one.
The Ameraucana breed has enough misinformation being put out as is. Why add to that? All you have to do is be specific with your details and let folks know exactly what you have produced - i.e. "Chicks from my Black Ameraucana hen crossed with my Lavender (breed) rooster." Btw, I noticed on the list of birds in your signature that you have a "split/black lavender orpington". If this is the "lavender Roo" you are referring to, then the offspring would most definitely be an EE and it would be flat wrong to sell them as anything other than an EE. It's been some time since I read the "rules" for BYC but I believe there was something in them that talked about truth, integrity, and such and I would hope that the Mods on BYC would not allow anyone to directly and intentionally misrepresent what they're selling on here.
One of the reasons the APA has the SOP in place is for the preservation of the bird. If you sell, say for example, a Black Ameraucana to someone who thinks they are getting a Black Ameraucana and then that bird winds up passing on a lavender gene or other Orpington characteristics towards the type, then you've really done an injustice to that person. If you extrapolate that on out, one can easily see how those genes could promulgate and eventually maybe even wind up back into the flock where the original BBS birds came from which could then in turn ruin the entire breeding efforts of a BBS breeder.
To Ameraucana Chick's point about why two different varieties of Ameraucana crossed ain't an Ameraucana, it may seem confusing but if you look closely at the extreme diligence, time, effort, and energy put into getting a particular variety approved by the APA, it is quite easy to see why the requirements are there. Otherwise, you could have everyone and his brother out there crossing all sorts of birds and calling them all sorts of things. Folks who do not show may not approve of or appreciate the APA and its Standards but they're there for a good reason and they serve a valuable purpose.
I'd have to spend some time, which I don't have right now, but if memory serves me correctly, in order to get approved by the APA you have to have at least five different individual breeder flocks made up of at least 50 birds in each flock, that have been breeding true at least 50% of the time for at least 5 years and then on top of that they have to be shown at an APA sanctioned show a certain number of qualified events (I think it's 2 per year for each of the 5 years) which have a minimum number of birds at each show and then all those birds have to meet the suggested SOP.
If we didn't have strict adherence to the Standard, eventually we'd wind up with so much experimentation going on that the original breed would be lost forever. That's my two-cents worth.
God Bless,
You jumping up and down and calling yourself a car is totally different than what Ilovefrizzles is saying.Now If you had a red car and a blue car and mixed them and then said I have a car that would be the comparison that she is speaking of.I know for a fact that she has a very nice lavender ameraucana roo because she got it from me.telling someone basically they are dishonest and need to read the BYC rules is pushing it a little far.I do 100% understand the need for standards and understand that Ameraucana's need to be breed to like colors.
