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2,500 B.C. - before there were any such thing as an Ameraucana, an Araucana or an Easter Egger , a subspecific race of the Pacific Junglefowl, of hybrid origin, was
intentionally introduced (by seafaring peoples who originated in southern Indonesia) to
Koro Island, and Marquesas Isles and the Gambier Islands.
Over the next thousand or so years, many of these islands were abandoned by human beings leaving the subspecific hybrid race(s) of Pacific Junglefowl to fare for themselves.
As the aforementioned islands were originally covered in very fragile ecosystems, human colonists made their new homes uninhabitable. They did this by wide scale environmental damage which rendered the once fertile islands relatively barren. Consequently, the Pacific Junglefowl naturalized on these islands met ecological challenges via adaptation.
One of the greatest issues of these islands is the typhoon season. The islands are regularly smashed by typhoons with catastrophic results.
The primary food of some of these desert isles races of Pacific Junglefowl are flies. Their faces are covered in fine down and many exhibit insulative velvet patches beneath their eyes, which may be helpful against the glare of the sun. An additional trait unique to this group are insulative patches of downy feathers that cover the ear regions and extend beneath the throat-the throats being densely feathered.
Modern Poultiers describe these traits as muffs and beards.
One island race - a morph- slightly different on each desert island to become established, enough to allow for harvesting by visiting seafarers, was the Koro Sea subspecies of the Pacific Junglefowl. Another was the Marquesas race of the Pacific Junglefowl.
The Koro Sea Junglefowl is the progenitive ancestor of the Quechua. ~
AD 1000-1100 , seafarers carried the Koro Sea Junglefowl to North Western South America. They traded Pacific Island Junglefowl races including that of the Koro Sea morphotype for the
sweet potato. The sweet potato would become the fuel of the Polynesian expansion. The Koro Sea Junglefowl became an important domesticated animal amongst the Queshua speaking Indians of North Western South America. It is highly likely that at least a few Seafarers remained in South America. We do not know how much ongoing trade as going on between the Quechua speakers of South America and the Marquesan language speakers. It is possible that their contact was more than infrequent. How often we cannot know at this point.
The Koro Sea Junglefowl is essentially similar in most respects to the Quail Bantam. This is because Dutch explorers collected progenitors of the Quail Bantam in the Gambier Islands. The original Koro Sea Junglefowl produced a wide range of egg shell colours ranging from reddish taupe to pale ochre yellow and greyish white. None were blue or green. The Quechua Indians released this diminutive island breed into their farmlands where it became a larger, more robust bird. This may have been a product of a richer environment, access to more food and less exposure to typhoons. It may be that additional genetics from the Marquesas Junglefowl contributed to hybrid vigour.
The Quechua fowl developed alongside the Quechua speaking Indians in NW South America for a very very long while before the Europeans came.
At some point during the 16th or 17th century Spaniards recognized the value of the native fowl and crossed them with some large bodied highly domestic fowl native to Europe. The eggs of these birds were likely similar in colour with that of the Koro Sea fowl until they were admixtured with the white egg producing European breed.
During the 19th century, Quechua speaking Indians carried these birds to Argentina and eventually traded them with Falkland Isles farmers. The feral populations on the settlements there -crofts and ranches inter bred with big bodied chicken breeds developed in France and the British Isles.
Argentinian poultry scientists crossed the now Europeanized or "improved" Tejuda Quechua with Southern South American races including the Collonca, which is where the Tejuda Quechua accrued the ability to produce blue eggs. The birds were refined further until they were demed the most ideal chicken breed of all the cold weather regions of South America.
At this point in time, the Tejuda Quechua was analogous with North America's Rhode Island Red - at this point in time a brand new invention-
Eventually, this Tajuda fowl originally of the Quechua speaking Indians was to be demed the winter layer and sent abroad during the World Fair- twice-
The first World Fair the birds were called the World's Fair Quechua but the second World Fair- the birds- a slightly more 'improved' line were called Easter Egg chickens and all sorts of hype followed them.
To keep it simple- the answer to your question is complex.
1. Koro Sea race of Pacific Junglefowl is introduced to the Quechua speaking Indians who maintain the birds as village fowl of great religious import.
2. European vintners ( wine farmers) improved the Indian's village fowl by interbreeding it with their very tame, over-domesticated, large bodied fowl.
These birds Quechua or Tejuda, as Kollonca has defined them, were celebrated for their calm dispositions, dual purpose and extreme hardiness to cold.
3. Quechua are introduced to the western coast of South America where they are crossed with European breeds to, once again, improve upon them.
Blue egg laying Collonca are also bred into the stock.
4. The first generation of these birds were released into the hands of the World's Fair and the fair they were married to the project at this point .
They are studying over the notes - not in disagreee]ment - they would become known as the Ameraucana.
5. The second generation of these birds -much more thoroughly domesticated- were introduced to the Americans/ they would become known as the Easter Egger.
I'll actually answer your questions - not sure where i was going here...
