Should I try to sell my purebred splash Ameracauna or just free to a good home?

[Free Feather]

Great! I am always afraid some stranger will get a boy and eat them. This is why I will not give away mean cockerels. Not everyone sees the merits in their personality, and like them for their jerkness like me. And he is a very pretty boy.

 

[speckledhen]

Understood. Tried to change the title of the post, but not able to.

Found him a great home in the North Georgia Mountains yesterday. Thanks everyone.

Fabulous! To clarify the color comment, though splash is not show-able, it is a natural product of breeding the color blue. I personally think it's crazy not to have it an accepted color when blue and black are and splash is genetically a black bird with the addition of two blue genes. To me, the term "purebred" in regard to Ameraucana only means it's not a mixed breed Easter Egger, but a true Ameraucana. And he does appear to be that. As I said, if I was still breeding and did accept started birds, I'd love to have that guy. I think he's rather handsome. So happy you found him a home in my neck of the woods.

 

[aart]

Quote: Good points!
But how can you tell a 'true Ameraucana', other than DNA, unless the feather coloration matches the standard?

 

[speckledhen]

Good points!
But how can you tell a 'true Ameraucana', other than DNA, unless the feather coloration matches the standard?

If he looks it and fits all the points of standard, eye color, leg color, plumage color, body type, etc, he is it. Such is the way of chicken standards. There is no DNA testing at shows. This is why there are many birds who have won shows as a certain breed when they are only half that or even less. If they look the part, they are. Seems wrong, but that's the way it is.

Of course, then there is the test of what he produces when bred to another Ameraucana, but he appears to have all the proper coloring in all areas to be considered a true Ameraucana.

See this cockerel? He is a Barred Plymouth Rock. He will produce same when bred to BR hens. However, because I bred him here, I know he is 1/4 Delaware. You don't know by looking at him.

 

[aart]

I hear ya......in my short time studying chickens I wonder if any 'truly' pure breed chicken exists.

We could say....'looks like this kind of chicken'
Just like we say ...'tastes like chicken'....lol
Sorry, lapse of twisted humor.

 

[speckledhen]

I hear ya......in my short time studying chickens I wonder if any 'truly' pure breed chicken exists.

We could say....'looks like this kind of chicken'
Just like we say ...'tastes like chicken'....lol
Sorry, lapse of twisted humor.

 

[donrae]

Fabulous! To clarify the color comment, though splash is not show-able, it is a natural product of breeding the color blue. I personally think it's crazy not to have it an accepted color when blue and black are and splash is genetically a black bird with the addition of two blue genes. To me, the term "purebred" in regard to Ameraucana only means it's not a mixed breed Easter Egger, but a true Ameraucana. And he does appear to be that. As I said, if I was still breeding and did accept started birds, I'd love to have that guy. I think he's rather handsome. So happy you found him a home in my neck of the woods.

I agree with the splash thing. I don't know if any of you are horse folks, but there was basically the same things with chestnut/palomino/cremello, being the equivalant of black/blue/spalsh. Cremello horses weren't registerable/showable with the Quarter Horse association for the longest time. It's been fairly recent they changes the regs allowing them to be registered and shown....maybe the APA will go along at some point.

 

[donrae]

If he looks it and fits all the points of standard, eye color, leg color, plumage color, body type, etc, he is it. Such is the way of chicken standards. There is no DNA testing at shows. This is why there are many birds who have won shows as a certain breed when they are only half that or even less. If they look the part, they are. Seems wrong, but that's the way it is.

Of course, then there is the test of what he produces when bred to another Ameraucana, but he appears to have all the proper coloring in all areas to be considered a true Ameraucana.

See this cockerel? He is a Barred Plymouth Rock. He will produce same when bred to BR hens. However, because I bred him here, I know he is 1/4 Delaware. You don't know by looking at him.

I love how you point that out. I had someone argue with me that one of my home bred cockerels was a Dominique, because he was barred and had a rose comb. Since I bred the bird I knew he was barred Rock and Wyandotte--the body shape was way too heavy for a Dom, for one thing. Plus, I've never owned a Dominique.....but no, to them, he had to be a Dominique. Were I less ethical I would have sold him to her as such

 

[Going Quackers]

Understood. Tried to change the title of the post, but not able to.

Found him a great home in the North Georgia Mountains yesterday. Thanks everyone.

Glad you found him a home!

 

[speckledhen]

I agree with the splash thing. I don't know if any of you are horse folks, but there was basically the same things with chestnut/palomino/cremello, being the equivalant of black/blue/spalsh. Cremello horses weren't registerable/showable with the Quarter Horse association for the longest time. It's been fairly recent they changes the regs allowing them to be registered and shown....maybe the APA will go along at some point.

I don't know much about horses, but I've read a bit about the colors.

I love how you point that out. I had someone argue with me that one of my home bred cockerels was a Dominique, because he was barred and had a rose comb. Since I bred the bird I knew he was barred Rock and Wyandotte--the body shape was way too heavy for a Dom, for one thing. Plus, I've never owned a Dominique.....but no, to them, he had to be a Dominique. Were I less ethical I would have sold him to her as such

Exactamundo! It was even funnier once when someone had stolen a photo of a mixed breed rooster I raised here as an example of their blue Ameraucanas. There was not a drop of Ameraucana or EE blood in that male! He was (hold onto your hat) sired by a standard Buff Orpington rooster. His mother was a Blue Silkie x Black Bantam Frizzle Cochin. She had blue frizzle feathers and a pea comb, a very small hen. We told him to take down that photo, as well as one of my Blue Orpington rooster he was also using on his website to advertise his BBS Orps.

Here is the "blue Ameraucana" as a youngster (Buff Orp x Silkie/frizzle Cochin bantam)






And as an adult. Can you imagine using this guy as an advertisement for your Ameraucanas? Good grief! Both myself and his owner, a friend of mine I had given him to, were angry but laughing at the same time. In fact, years later, she still has him. He's elderly now.