TSC strikes again!

[RoostersAreAwesome]

The “ameraucana” is an Easter egger and looks like a cockerel. The cinnamon queen is actually a CQ and has a rose comb, not a pea. Sometimes CQs are bred using a Rhode Island red x silver laced wyandotte cross, which produces sex links with rose combs https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cinnamon-queen-thread.938674/#post-14380819
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-breed-is-this.1452943/.

 

[CSolis]

The “ameraucana” is an Easter egger and looks like a cockerel. The cinnamon queen is actually a CQ and has a rose comb, not a pea. Sometimes CQs are bred using a Rhode Island red x silver laced wyandotte cross, which produces sex links with rose combs https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cinnamon-queen-thread.938674/#post-14380819
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-breed-is-this.1452943/.

I was hoping for at least one of the two EE's to be a cockerel.. Thanks! And for the link as well.

 

[The Moonshiner]

OP, is it a rose comb? Looks like a pea comb on my phone but it is a little blurry.

 

[CSolis]

OP, is it a rose comb? Looks like a pea comb on my phone but it is a little blurry.

Very flat compared to the two EE's rose combs.. almost non existant.. Wide, flat with very little form to it at all. Let me find a better pic.

 

[AmeliaBedelia]

Nope, different bins. I did call and talk to one of the guys at TSC. He's going to do some calling and find out which hatcheries chicks are coming from, and why they are mislabeled when they get them. I did check the spelling on the plaque that said Ameraucana's to make sure it had a U in it.

Mcmurray is selling "ameraucanas" with that spelling. I have one...not a standard color, so easter egger to any ameraucana breeder, but they claim theirs were (1) being sold under that name before the ameraucana breed standards were set and (2) only 1 in 300 lays anything but a blue egg. So guess they are being stubborn on the name. She isn't laying yet, but hoping the 99.7% blue egg thing is true and she lays blue!

Anyway, that could explain the spelling thing if your tsc buys from McMurray.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Very flat compared to the two EE's rose combs.. almost non existant.. Wide, flat with very little form to it at all. Let me find a better pic.

That sounds like a rose comb.
Interesting what was posted. I knew of the cross but never heard of it also being called a CQ.

 

[CSolis]

Mcmurray is selling "ameraucanas" with that spelling. I have one...not a standard color, so easter egger to any ameraucana breeder, but they claim theirs were (1) being sold under that name before the ameraucana breed standards were set and (2) only 1 in 300 lays anything but a blue egg. So guess they are being stubborn on the name. She isn't laying yet, but hoping the 99.7% blue egg thing is true and she lays blue!

Anyway, that could explain the spelling thing if your tsc buys from McMurray.

If you go to the TSC website and buy chicks, they are coming from Hoover's Hatchery. Maybe they have the same policy?

 

[CSolis]

That sounds like a rose comb.
Interesting what was posted. I knew of the cross but never heard of it also being called a CQ.

Rose or Pea Comb (5 weeks old)

 

[The Moonshiner]

they claim theirs were (1) being sold under that name before the ameraucana breed standards were set

Can't say this is absolutely true about that hatchery but it is true for almost every hatchery that were selling them in the late 70s.

 

[Tonyroo]

It's the labeling of the product that gives customers information of what there looking at. So if you see a bin full of chicks and the label clearly states that it's speckled Sussex but in reality there GLW chicks. That's false advertising. Here's another example going into a jewelry store and buying a diamond ring only later taking it to an appraiser and he tells you that the ring is a zirconia.
Just demonstrating selling practices like this is not ok for most folks including myself.

Sorry ranting. Lol