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When are they due?
When are they due?
The EE braggers thread!!!
- Thread starter KatyTheChickenLady
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Not until March 20th. I just put them in last night.
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Yea it confuses me too. I leave this question up to the folks on the ameraucana thread. They have been discussing it for awhile now. IDK if a consensus will ever be found but to avoid upsetting anyone I'm calling them EEs. The better term might be "non-standard ameraucana". That's what I should probably use instead. Sorry if I confused you. I'm all about egg color so that is what I study. I'm just trying to not step on anybodies toes and also avoid any "controversial subjects". Not that a healthy debate bothers me, I just don't know enough about this subject to even try to answer your question correctly. Plus some folks are upset by these debates. I think non-standard ameraucana is a more accurate term.
Sorry I don't have a more knowledgeable answer for you.
Yea it confuses me too. I leave this question up to the folks on the ameraucana thread. They have been discussing it for awhile now. IDK if a consensus will ever be found but to avoid upsetting anyone I'm calling them EEs. The better term might be "non-standard ameraucana". That's what I should probably use instead. Sorry if I confused you. I'm all about egg color so that is what I study. I'm just trying to not step on anybodies toes and also avoid any "controversial subjects". Not that a healthy debate bothers me, I just don't know enough about this subject to even try to answer your question correctly. Plus some folks are upset by these debates. I think non-standard ameraucana is a more accurate term.
Sorry I don't have a more knowledgeable answer for you.
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As a lover of EE, I'm glad the milkman had muffs and beard.
Kinda ironic I get some non EE eggs to hatch out crosses for my EEs, and one turns out to be one.
Sounds like a happy mistake.
Hey everybody here are my newest arrivals...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/41069_first3ams.jpg
Even still wet you can see their muffs and beards! They are a lot poofier now though that they are dried out. Still I couldn't resist the half wet pic. They've already imprinted. The whole time I was trying to take their pic they kept jumping up and running toward me full tilt with their wings out. It was so cute!!! Luckily for me they were still wobbly so I just had to snap the pic real fast.
They are crosses between my wheaten ameraucanas and my black ameraucana roo. Since they don't meet any variety standards I'm calling them EEs. EEs that will lay a very pretty blue egg with a hint of minty green (that is if I get any girls).
As a lover of EE, I'm glad the milkman had muffs and beard.
Sounds like a happy mistake.
Hey everybody here are my newest arrivals...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/41069_first3ams.jpg
Even still wet you can see their muffs and beards! They are a lot poofier now though that they are dried out. Still I couldn't resist the half wet pic. They've already imprinted. The whole time I was trying to take their pic they kept jumping up and running toward me full tilt with their wings out. It was so cute!!! Luckily for me they were still wobbly so I just had to snap the pic real fast.
They are crosses between my wheaten ameraucanas and my black ameraucana roo. Since they don't meet any variety standards I'm calling them EEs. EEs that will lay a very pretty blue egg with a hint of minty green (that is if I get any girls).
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Yea it confuses me too. I leave this question up to the folks on the ameraucana thread. They have been discussing it for awhile now. IDK if a consensus will ever be found but to avoid upsetting anyone I'm calling them EEs. The better term might be "non-standard ameraucana". That's what I should probably use instead. Sorry if I confused you. I'm all about egg color so that is what I study. I'm just trying to not step on anybodies toes and also avoid any "controversial subjects". Not that a healthy debate bothers me, I just don't know enough about this subject to even try to answer your question correctly. Plus some folks are upset by these debates. I think non-standard ameraucana is a more accurate term.
Sorry I don't have a more knowledgeable answer for you.
Well, it goes something like this
Once upon a time a person came up with an Easter Egger that layed light blue eggs. This person dubbed the obvious Easter Egger an Ameraucana, and showed it as such. Now, when you take a so called Ameraucana with debatable origins & a not accepted EE-like color, and you just call it an Ameraucana because of egg color, it tends to bug the crap out of the person who actually breeds true ameraucanas. So the true Ameraucana breeding people came together and decided to call all non standard ameraucanas Easter Eggers to prevent people from showing blue egg laying EEs
thee end
Yea it confuses me too. I leave this question up to the folks on the ameraucana thread. They have been discussing it for awhile now. IDK if a consensus will ever be found but to avoid upsetting anyone I'm calling them EEs. The better term might be "non-standard ameraucana". That's what I should probably use instead. Sorry if I confused you. I'm all about egg color so that is what I study. I'm just trying to not step on anybodies toes and also avoid any "controversial subjects". Not that a healthy debate bothers me, I just don't know enough about this subject to even try to answer your question correctly. Plus some folks are upset by these debates. I think non-standard ameraucana is a more accurate term.
Sorry I don't have a more knowledgeable answer for you.
Well, it goes something like this
Once upon a time a person came up with an Easter Egger that layed light blue eggs. This person dubbed the obvious Easter Egger an Ameraucana, and showed it as such. Now, when you take a so called Ameraucana with debatable origins & a not accepted EE-like color, and you just call it an Ameraucana because of egg color, it tends to bug the crap out of the person who actually breeds true ameraucanas. So the true Ameraucana breeding people came together and decided to call all non standard ameraucanas Easter Eggers to prevent people from showing blue egg laying EEs
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That would not be my opinion, but I'll not attempt to impose my opinion on others.
If my own Ameraucanas do not fit the standard for their variety, they are immediately designated as EE. The only exception would be if I were working on a new color project, such as the lavenders, or another of my own choosing. IMO those would be "project" Ameraucanas.
According to APA standards, varities only have to breed true 50% of the time, and Ameraucanas only list a few characteristics that would disqualify them from competion at an APA sanctioned show. AOVs, "if" I was informed correctly, can be shown successfully as Ameraucanas if they have no disqualifying traits, and can even win Best of Breed; but they would be inelidgable to advance farther in the competion.
Just for kicks, I may very well show up at an APA event with a bird I've culled from my EE breeding project, but that qualifies as an Ameraucana in a recognized variety, and see how it does in competion.
That would not be my opinion, but I'll not attempt to impose my opinion on others.
If my own Ameraucanas do not fit the standard for their variety, they are immediately designated as EE. The only exception would be if I were working on a new color project, such as the lavenders, or another of my own choosing. IMO those would be "project" Ameraucanas.
According to APA standards, varities only have to breed true 50% of the time, and Ameraucanas only list a few characteristics that would disqualify them from competion at an APA sanctioned show. AOVs, "if" I was informed correctly, can be shown successfully as Ameraucanas if they have no disqualifying traits, and can even win Best of Breed; but they would be inelidgable to advance farther in the competion.
Just for kicks, I may very well show up at an APA event with a bird I've culled from my EE breeding project, but that qualifies as an Ameraucana in a recognized variety, and see how it does in competion.
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I do not get upset or angry but this question has come up so many times that there are thread on just this topic and yet the questions keep coming. If you breed to show you need to know all of this but as a long time reader it is boring and yet I can not skip reading everything for fear that I would miss some knowledge. I just think folks make to complicated because they are just TOO SERIOUS. Then there are those questions such as "Don't you need a rooster for your chickens to lay eggs ?"
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That would not be my opinion, but I'll not attempt to impose my opinion on others.
If my own Ameraucanas do not fit the standard for their variety, they are immediately designated as EE. The only exception would be if I were working on a new color project, such as the lavenders, or another of my own choosing. IMO those would be "project" Ameraucanas.
According to APA standards, varities only have to breed true 50% of the time, and Ameraucanas only list a few characteristics that would disqualify them from competion at an APA sanctioned show. AOVs, "if" I was informed correctly, can be shown successfully as Ameraucanas if they have no disqualifying traits, and can even win Best of Breed; but they would be inelidgable to advance farther in the competion.
Just for kicks, I may very well show up at an APA event with a bird I've culled from my EE breeding project, but that qualifies as an Ameraucana in a recognized variety, and see how it does in competion.
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That would not be my opinion, but I'll not attempt to impose my opinion on others.
If my own Ameraucanas do not fit the standard for their variety, they are immediately designated as EE. The only exception would be if I were working on a new color project, such as the lavenders, or another of my own choosing. IMO those would be "project" Ameraucanas.
According to APA standards, varities only have to breed true 50% of the time, and Ameraucanas only list a few characteristics that would disqualify them from competion at an APA sanctioned show. AOVs, "if" I was informed correctly, can be shown successfully as Ameraucanas if they have no disqualifying traits, and can even win Best of Breed; but they would be inelidgable to advance farther in the competion.
Just for kicks, I may very well show up at an APA event with a bird I've culled from my EE breeding project, but that qualifies as an Ameraucana in a recognized variety, and see how it does in competion.
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Yea it confuses me too. I leave this question up to the folks on the ameraucana thread. They have been discussing it for awhile now. IDK if a consensus will ever be found but to avoid upsetting anyone I'm calling them EEs. The better term might be "non-standard ameraucana". That's what I should probably use instead. Sorry if I confused you. I'm all about egg color so that is what I study. I'm just trying to not step on anybodies toes and also avoid any "controversial subjects". Not that a healthy debate bothers me, I just don't know enough about this subject to even try to answer your question correctly. Plus some folks are upset by these debates. I think non-standard ameraucana is a more accurate term.
Sorry I don't have a more knowledgeable answer for you.
Well, it goes something like this
Once upon a time a person came up with an Easter Egger that layed light blue eggs. This person dubbed the obvious Easter Egger an Ameraucana, and showed it as such. Now, when you take a so called Ameraucana with debatable origins & a not accepted EE-like color, and you just call it an Ameraucana because of egg color, it tends to bug the crap out of the person who actually breeds true ameraucanas. So the true Ameraucana breeding people came together and decided to call all non standard ameraucanas Easter Eggers to prevent people from showing blue egg laying EEs
thee end
Thanks Steve for the pullet wishes!
Flower, I think that is life on a public forum. We learn by discussing things and a newby can't learn til they start to ask questions and an old timer is going to keep learning as well so the discussions get a little more involved. Except for a couple of folks I think most people are just curious. I don't think anyone meant to be irritating. It's just impossible on a public forum for everyone's interests or beliefs to be identical. I know (by the laughing smiley) that you meant this in a humorous way but some of the statements made have sounded like we are being told not to discuss what we're interested in.
BTW: I apologize to Katy the Chicken Lady for calling EEs mutts. It is a term I often use to describe myself.
If any of our discussions bother you just let me know and I will never discuss anything other than the cuteness of everyone's EEs! This thread should follow the wishes of the O.P. and I hope I haven't said anything to offend you Katy!!!
Yea it confuses me too. I leave this question up to the folks on the ameraucana thread. They have been discussing it for awhile now. IDK if a consensus will ever be found but to avoid upsetting anyone I'm calling them EEs. The better term might be "non-standard ameraucana". That's what I should probably use instead. Sorry if I confused you. I'm all about egg color so that is what I study. I'm just trying to not step on anybodies toes and also avoid any "controversial subjects". Not that a healthy debate bothers me, I just don't know enough about this subject to even try to answer your question correctly. Plus some folks are upset by these debates. I think non-standard ameraucana is a more accurate term.
Sorry I don't have a more knowledgeable answer for you.
Well, it goes something like this
Once upon a time a person came up with an Easter Egger that layed light blue eggs. This person dubbed the obvious Easter Egger an Ameraucana, and showed it as such. Now, when you take a so called Ameraucana with debatable origins & a not accepted EE-like color, and you just call it an Ameraucana because of egg color, it tends to bug the crap out of the person who actually breeds true ameraucanas. So the true Ameraucana breeding people came together and decided to call all non standard ameraucanas Easter Eggers to prevent people from showing blue egg laying EEs
Thanks Steve for the pullet wishes!
Flower, I think that is life on a public forum. We learn by discussing things and a newby can't learn til they start to ask questions and an old timer is going to keep learning as well so the discussions get a little more involved. Except for a couple of folks I think most people are just curious. I don't think anyone meant to be irritating. It's just impossible on a public forum for everyone's interests or beliefs to be identical. I know (by the laughing smiley) that you meant this in a humorous way but some of the statements made have sounded like we are being told not to discuss what we're interested in.
BTW: I apologize to Katy the Chicken Lady for calling EEs mutts. It is a term I often use to describe myself.
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Subjects keep getting brought up b/c people don't have the time to read through 2000
posts to get their answer. I know I've been guilty of having a question that I know has been answered before, attempted to find it then just gave up and reasked.
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