The True Truth: How to tell an Easter Egger from an Ameraucana. Even if you think you have an Ameraucana, do check!

[Real Chick]

Meyers hatchery purchase order of BBS Americauna in Late August 2020. I think the breed was right, but not the sex.

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

I bought my pullet "Rey" from a feed store. She didn't look like the other chicks (why I picked her) but she was being sold as an Australorp (sp?). I don't recall how much I spent on her because I was so certain she was an Australorp. She never grew out of her puffy cheeks so I made a post questioning her breed.
I am pretty positive she is an EE. She is 35 weeks old and hasn't started laying like my other hens.
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So she's definitely an EE. Got our first egg from her recently and it looks green

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

Meyers hatchery purchase order of BBS Americauna in Late August 2020. I think the breed was right, but not the sex.

Love the feather colors!

 

[Brown Chick]

Yes. Araucanas are a different breed completely, yet hatcheries still sell EEs as such.
For people out there:
Araucanas are a breed that have ear tufts (NOT muffs.)View attachment 2367858
And are RUMPLESS.
NO TAIL.View attachment 2367860

So if araucaria has ear tufts. How does crossing them with a Wyandotte for example produce a chicken with muffs? My EE girls have muffs and one is rumpless looking. She has less tail than the rest of my hens.

 

[Brown Chick]

The darker hen is Bonnie and the one with the white head is Bubbles. Bubbles lays the green egg. They were bought as EE.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

So if araucaria has ear tufts. How does crossing them with a Wyandotte for example produce a chicken with muffs? My EE girls have muffs and one is rumpless looking. She has less tail than the rest of my hens.

Hmm, I’m not sure.
Do you have a pure Arucana?
Did you cross it with a Wyandotte?

 

[Brown Chick]

Hmm, I’m not sure.
Do you have a pure Arucana?
Did you cross it with a Wyandotte?

One of my EE is clearly a golden lace Wyandotte cross but she has muffs and lays a blue green egg. I was just wondering why they don’t have tufts if they are a arucana cross.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

One of my EE is clearly a golden lace Wyandotte cross but she has muffs and lays a blue green egg. I was just wondering why they don’t have tufts if they are a arucana cross.

Why do you think they’re an araucana cross? Are they from a hatchery?

 

[Brown Chick]

Why do you think they’re an araucana cross? Are they from a hatchery?

I do not know for sure she is.

Why do you think they’re an araucana cross? Are they from a hatchery?

they were from purely poultry. But my question is what breeding gives them muffs? The Americana has muffs but what breed passes the muffs on to these breeds?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I do not know for sure she is.

they were from purely poultry. But my question is what breeding gives them muffs? The Americana has muffs but what breed passes the muffs on to these breeds?

Hatchery Easter eggers are almost always bred by Easter egger x Easter egger crosses. It’s very unlikely that they’ve been recently crossed to araucana, wyandotte, or even ameraucana.