What breed is my little Ebony?

[spiritdance]

Wow, you got all that from the OP's misspelling!? You figured out the breeds, the pen arrangements, etc. etc. of the original breeder from that!? You must be psychic! Seriously, it's this type of knee jerk response that makes people think Ameraucana breeders are stuck up. And please notice that I spell the name correctly ... oh, and I do own some Ameraucanas, AND I currently have them in a run with some silkies, some cochins, and some mutts, so if I were to kindly give a friend a few eggs, would that make my birds "easter eggers"?!

 

[StarLover21]

Wow, you got all that from the OP's misspelling!? You figured out the breeds, the pen arrangements, etc. etc. of the original breeder from that!? You must be psychic! Seriously, it's this type of knee jerk response that makes people think Ameraucana breeders are stuck up. And please notice that I spell the name correctly ... oh, and I do own some Ameraucanas, AND I currently have them in a run with some silkies, some cochins, and some mutts, so if I were to kindly give a friend a few eggs, would that make my birds "easter eggers"?!

Nothing was wrong with the previous posts- Easter Eggers are very commonly confused with Ameraucana's, nad Americana is just another correct way to spell Ameraucana. True Ameraucana's are very, very hard to come by.

 

[hdowden]

Wow, you got all that from the OP's misspelling!? You figured out the breeds, the pen arrangements, etc. etc. of the original breeder from that!? You must be psychic! Seriously, it's this type of knee jerk response that makes people think Ameraucana breeders are stuck up. And please notice that I spell the name correctly ... oh, and I do own some Ameraucanas, AND I currently have them in a run with some silkies, some cochins, and some mutts, so if I were to kindly give a friend a few eggs, would that make my birds "easter eggers"?!

depends on their color really as long as they fall in the reconized colors they are considered ameraucana's, if they dont then they are considered as ee's. to me if they are breed ameraucana to an ameraucana that still makes them ameraucana's but if it's ameraucana to another breed then thats what i really consider an ee...really dont know why mixed colored amereaucana's are considered ee's though...

now if you gave ur friend some of ur eggs from ur mixed flock and you have no idea which roo did the deed then yes the resulting babies could be possable ee's or they could be pure ameraucana's depends on what traits they have in them

 

[hdowden]

~UPDATE~
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While for a while it was deided that Miss Ebony was a Silkie- D'uccle cross, that is not true. I recently visited the woman that gave us her egg and asked her if she had any D'uccles. She did have a few, but they were not in the same pen as the silkies, and were red and black. She told me that Ebony is atually a Americauna - Silkie cross! What do you think about that? I was honestly a bit shocked because most people (Including me) were sure she was a D'uccle.
Here's Ebony now.





She is quite the snuggler!

her feet are really heavly feathered to be Americauna x silkie mix do you have a side shot of her i'm not convinced that she's not a d'uccle mix instead i really would love to see a side shot. if she has vultuer hocks then shes a d'uccle mix

 

[spiritdance]

Read more carefully: "Would that make MY birds Easter Eggers?" - answer - NO. My birds ARE AMERAUCANAS, whether I allow them to produce mixed breed chicks or not! I think you completely missed my point - people should not make uninformed decisions about THIS bird's (or any other bird's) possible Ameraucana heritage based on the OPs spelling - the post I was responding to did just that: "Well, seeing as there is no such breed as an "Americauna" and that the name Americauna is often given to mixed-breed Easter Eggers by hatcheries, she is most likely Silkie x Easter Egger." Such an assumption is unwarranted, as my situation illustrates. I do not have my birds in breeding runs right now, and if a friend wanted some eggs right now, I would gladly give them and tell the friend the chicks would be mixed breed. Unfortunately, I've seen other people make the statement that if someone misspells Ameraucana , it means their birds aren't purebred. That's laughable and ridiculous. I'm sure there are plenty of dislexics who own perfectly nice Ameraucanas, just as someone who doesn't read or write could own them. TOO OFTEN, fellow breeders of this lovely breed take a condescending tone with others about the breed, without considering how such a tone might offend or put people off of the breed. Pride in one's birds is one thing ... arrogance is another.

 

[Fleabuskitty]

Wow, you got all that from the OP's misspelling!? You figured out the breeds, the pen arrangements, etc. etc. of the original breeder from that!? You must be psychic! Seriously, it's this type of knee jerk response that makes people think Ameraucana breeders are stuck up. And please notice that I spell the name correctly ... oh, and I do own some Ameraucanas, AND I currently have them in a run with some silkies, some cochins, and some mutts, so if I were to kindly give a friend a few eggs, would that make my birds "easter eggers"?!

I am so sorry you misunderstood my post! I really wasn't trying to start an argument! I actually do not own any Ameraucanas and only two of my twenty-five chickens are even EEs, so please do not base your opinion on other people on me. I am not claiming to know "everything" about the breed, just trying to clarify.
What I meant to say was not that I got that from the OP's misspelling - I thought they were spelling it that way possibly because the breeder may have spelled it that way, which is how hatcheries spell it/what they call their EEs. For all I know, they could have talked to the breeder on the phone/in person and misspelled what they heard the breeder say, in which case there wouldn't really be a way to tell without finding out if the breeder's birds are hatchery chickens or not.
I was not claiming to have "magically" figured out the breeds, pen arrangements, etc of the original breeder, but saying that OP might want to look further into which breeds were with the Silkies if knowing the breed of the chicken is really important to them. If the EEs or Ameraucanas were the only bearded birds in the pen then the chicken is definitely EE/Ameraucana x Silkie because she is bearded.
I really did not mean to upset anyone with my post, and looking back at it, I probably could have worded it a little better; I didn't realize that it sounded stuck up or like a knee jerk response

 

[ChickenPeep]

Spiritdance:

I'm sorry. I didn't know! All she told me was Ameraucana!

And I'm not a perfect speller.
All I was trying to do was tell you about my favorite chicken!

oh, and Fleabuskitty, I appreciate your reply.

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[Fleabuskitty]

She is an adorable little chicken

The 4th picture reminds me of a pullet that I have named Pecan; her mom is a birchen bantam Cochin and her dad was a production red

Whether Ebony is a true Ameraucana x Silkie or an Easter Egger x Silkie, she will most likely lay blue/green eggs, so if I were you I would just call her an Easter Egger

I have a five-toed frizzled feather-footed EE and I just call her an EE or a frizzled EE; it doesn't confuse people as much

 

[ChickenPeep]

She is an adorable little chicken

The 4th picture reminds me of a pullet that I have named Pecan; her mom is a birchen bantam Cochin and her dad was a production red

Whether Ebony is a true Ameraucana x Silkie or an Easter Egger x Silkie, she will most likely lay blue/green eggs, so if I were you I would just call her an Easter Egger

I have a five-toed frizzled feather-footed EE and I just call her an EE or a frizzled EE; it doesn't confuse people as much

Oh, I really hope she will lay blue or green eggs! She is around 5 onths old, so I hope it will happen soon!
Thanks for the response.