Della is an Easter Egger. In most cases the feed store employees barely know that they are chickens little lone what breed they actually are.
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So Della...not a Delaware after all, has finally laid her first egg...it is blue! So what is your guess on her breed. The feed store where I got her says they have never had a white Americauna or Easter Egger....so that didn't help.
The feed store that I got her from says they have never had an all white Ameraucana or EE. She came in with a shipment with Delaware chicks. All the EE they get have been brownish red/wheat colored.
So if she meets all the descriptions that someone posted for Ameraucana how can I be sure she isn't really one... Della has all the features so how do I know for sure? She has blue legs, peacomb, beard and muffs, lays blue eggs...
So if she meets all the descriptions that someone posted for Ameraucana how can I be sure she isn't really one. The feed store that I got her from says they have never had an all white Ameraucana or EE. She came in with a shipment with Delaware chicks. All the EE they get have been brownish red/wheat colored. Mary was in with them and she has no beard or muffs but has blue legs and lays blue eggs...so I understand the lack of muffs and beard would mean she couldn't be an Ameraucana...But Della has all the features so how do I know for sure? She has blue legs, peacomb, beard and muffs, lays blue eggs...
Where does the feed store source their chicks? I would think that would be the biggest question. Otherwise, I agree with what @NatJ said. The likelihood is that she's an easter egger, and has more in her genes besides white. I doubt she'll breed completely true, since depending on where the feed store gets the chicks... there are some hatcheries that are working on snow white ee.
All that said, I have a bantam bird that if you looked at her I could tell you was a bantam ameraucana. She ticks all the boxes, but I know if I bred her she'd probably throw black chicks with lots of red, or blue with red. She's a black bird with very little red leakage that you can only see in bright sunlight. Her mother was a lavender bantam ameraucana and her father was a black breasted red bantam araucana.