What is my Easter Egger mixed with?

[junebuggena]

You guys are great. I learn something everytime I come on here. I asked the guy if he ment easter egger. He looked so miffed. I honestly wasnt trying to offend him I just wanted to know what to call them. They all look so different. We have a more "wheaten" colored easter egger. I think that is what you would call her. She is nearly 3. Lays tinted green eggs. She came to us because she was being ravaged by a rooster and his harem. We kept her separate for about a moth. She is top hen for now. Keeps our young boys in lkne as well.

Some people will insist that they have Ameraucana, regardless of what their birds look like.

 

[gojira]

Prior to the 1970s, muffed, tailed, rumpless, tufted didn't matter. They were all called Araucana. No distinction was made between them at all. It wasn't until the breed standards for the Araucana and Ameraucana were accepted by the APA that any distinction was made necessary.

So you are saying hatcheries did not breed Easter Eggers since the early 1900s. As I said, I know one hatchery had true Araucanas at one point. I think people make things up about hatcheries, and they get passed around so much people think that is fact. I am not endorsing hatcheries, but I see a lot of misinformation about them.

 

[gojira]

The dark roo has darker slate legs.

The legs are dusky/willow/green. Slate is a blue color. Slate is a black dermal layer and white epidermis, and willow is a black dermal layer and yellow epidermis.

 

[gojira]

Easter Eggers. See the yellow skin underneath that slate on their legs and feet. The lighter cockerel isn't rumpless, he's lacking proper tail feathers. I've had that trait pop up in my lines a lot. Completely normal once plucked, but for some reason never developed normal tail feathers.

The legs are not slate, and the yellow is not under the willow color.

 

[junebuggena]

So you are saying hatcheries did not breed Easter Eggers since the early 1900s. As I said, I know one hatchery had true Araucanas at one point. I think people make things up about hatcheries, and they get passed around so much people think that is fact. I am not endorsing hatcheries, but I see a lot of misinformation about them.

No, you just seem to be misunderstanding. The name Araucana applied to all Araucana/Ameraucana/Easter Egger type birds. The breed we know as Araucana did not exist till a dedicated group of breeders started to select for specific traits in the early 1970s. Same goes for the Ameraucana. Meanwhile, hatcheries continued breeding with no particular goals in mind. No hatchery in the U.S. has ever had Araucana that met the current breed standard. Sure they may have had rumpless birds, or a few with tufts, but they weren't the Araucana that we have today, with consistent skin and plumage coloring.

 

[gojira]

No, you just seem to be misunderstanding. The name Araucana applied to all Araucana/Ameraucana/Easter Egger type birds. The breed we know as Araucana did not exist till a dedicated group of breeders started to select for specific traits in the early 1970s. Same goes for the Ameraucana. Meanwhile, hatcheries continued breeding with no particular goals in mind. No hatchery in the U.S. has ever had Araucana that met the current breed standard. Sure they may have had rumpless birds, or a few with tufts, but they weren't the Araucana that we have today, with consistent skin and plumage coloring.

Since you saw the birds i saw in the mid 1990s, do you have a picture showing the skin and plumage coloring? The birds i saw had the proper skin and plumage color, and I know which hatchery they came from. Easter Egger is a fairly recent term. Show me where they were being bred in the early 1900s.

 

[junebuggena]

Since you saw the birds i saw in the mid 1990s, do you have a picture showing the skin and plumage coloring? The birds i saw had the proper skin and plumage color, and I know which hatchery they came from. Easter Egger is a fairly recent term. Show me where they were being bred in the early 1900s.

Read the breed historys...
http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/history.html

 

[gojira]

I thought we were talking about Araucanas, not Ameraucanas. That article does not prove your point. There was no mention of hatcheries, or Easter Eggers. Keep going.

 

[Ptrow86]

Hi friends!

Finally picked up my first 3 hens 3 weeks ago for my back yard flock. I picked 3 Easter Eggers that were each a different color. They are 17 weeks today. I hope they start laying in the next few weeks!

The white one has 5 toes and is supposedly mixed with Salmon Favorelle or Houdan.

The black one - not sure. Looks like a typical Easter Egger to me. 4 toes and the flightiest of the trio.

The third one...is brown with these really neat feathers. And she has a top hat on her head with no cheek muffs! She seems very unique. What is she?! Any ideas? Can EEs have a head of feathers like that?

I second the EE and a gold laced polish

 

[junebuggena]

I thought we were talking about Araucanas, not Ameraucanas. That article does not prove your point. There was no mention of hatcheries, or Easter Eggers. Keep going.

The breeds share a common history, up until a certain point. You need to remember when reading it that when the term Araucana is used in context prior to the 1970s, it's the undeveloped, unrefined Easter Egger-types being referred to. And yes it does mention hatcheries. You must not have read it very carefully.