What color is this araucana

[Guitartists]

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She is GORGEOUS!!! Love that coloring

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

When I know the parent's breeds, I refer to the offspring as (for example) silkieXaraucana, silkieXd'uccle, silkieXbrahma, etc. However once those offspring are grown and reporducing I don't usually refer to the next generation as a specific cross--it would get too complicated.

The boys I refer to as my yard roos; the girls are my laying flock. I can usually tell from looking at them what breeds each individual has in their background simply from knowing what breeds I have had that they could have come from. I do have one very lovely black (with a bare hint of red sheen--not purple, not green, red) hen that I got from a school hatching project and have no idea of her parentage.

 

[Rainbowbirds-of-a-Feather]

I love everyone's answers on EE..... They are very diverse and follow specific knowledge. The knowlege that I got it from was the knowlege that was posted. But it is good to get extra info. I will relay that to my friend here to whom I was told the information from 4 years back.

But mutts, non/standard, EE, whatever it my be. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[Anne]

It is possible to get Araucanas that are hardly identifiable as such (i.e. tailed, no tufts, non-standard feather color, non-standard leg color) even from breeding pens full of rumpless, tufted, standard-feather-color, standard-leg-color birds. These non-standard Araucanas can be difficult to define and impossible to recognize if their parentage is unknown.

To answer the OP's question, the bird in the photo is a non-standard color. Show people sometimes call their non-standard colored Araucanas "AOV" which stands for "All Other Varieties."

 

[Year of the Rooster]

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Nobody is saying that breeding a silkie and a RIR together makes an EE. You could breed a true Ameraucana/Araucana to a RIR/Silkie/BO/BA/D' Uccle or whatever and get something that looks like an Ameraucana/Araucana but it is not. It may lay the green/olive or even blue eggs, but it is still an EE. Point is just because it looks like the pure bred parent(s), doesn't mean it is. This is what people mean by EE. All EE's are mutts, but not all mutts are EE's. Unless it meets the standards of the APA then it is unshowable. As I am not a breeder I do not know if it would be "cull-able" or useful at all to the breeding program.

 

[key west chick]

I have an Araucana that is mottled, clean faced and has a tail but yes, she is pure Araucana. You would never guess thats what she is. Just a cull from a very respectable Araucana breeder.

 

[wilds of pa]

Year of the Rooster thats your interpretation. think what you like..a Mutt is a mutt. and EE IS AN EE

Thanks for your input, i think??

Charlie