What is the breed?

[HPancho]

Who knows the breed of this brown hen? Had a gold colored one as well.
Was told it was an Americana.. every time I try to find an Americana now it's just an Easter Egger to me. This is not an Easter Eggers... are Americana not the same anymore. She is 5 and is still laying amazing blue eggs!

 

[DobieLover]

Who knows the breed of this brown hen? Had a gold colored one as well.
Was told it was an Americana.. every time I try to find an Americana now it's just an Easter Egger to me. This is not an Easter Eggers... are Americana not the same anymore. She is 5 and is still laying amazing blue eggs!

She's an Easter Egger.
Ameraucanas are a pure bred chicken.
Easter Eggers are hybrids made with one pure bred blue egg gene parent. They will lay blue or green eggs most of the time but their appearance will always be different.

 

[ChickyCh00k]

Easter Eggers are sometimes called Americana (which is not the same as AmerAUcana). It can be quite confusing. So, you may have been told she's an Americana (with an "i", which is a hybrid that typically lays colored eggs, and is often interchangeable with the term "Easter Egger"), but she's not an Ameraucana (with an "au", which is a purebreed).

 

[AnneGirlGG]

She's pretty! I've never seen true Ameraucanas for sale in any store local to me. Your best bet might be to find a trustworthy breeder that is within driving distance for you, or use a hatchery like Meyer or Cackle, both of which do sell (or at least advertise to sell) pure Ameraucanas.

 

[HPancho]

We got two of them as pure Americana. (I can not find it anywhere now) we have had lots of EE they where definitely different. The tail and neck comb .. not the same.
Anyone know where you can get an Americana that is not an EE?

 

[AnneGirlGG]

Try TSC. Their site says they have "Americana chickens, a cross between Ameraucanas and Araucanas."But they're probably not selling any more chicks until Spring with it getting later in the year.

Or Hoover's Hatchery online. TSC gets most of their chicks from there anyway. And Hoover's says they will have Americanas ready on the 27th, so in 2 days. Here's the link-

https://hoovershatchery.com/americana-2

 

[HPancho]

I'm not sure I know enough chicken language to explain the big differences. I think I just have to except the ones ones I got just don't exist anymore.
EE have that hump around the neck or head part she doesn't have that she is sleak. The EE have longer neck fethers and they are not structured the same at all. The tail is also sleek and structured. Not like an EE. It's obvious to me but is see them in person so I suppose it's different. The yellow/ Gold one although a different color was also structured the same not like EE .. tail like a upside down V .. the person I got them from going them from a farm store at Americana.. but when you go to get Americana now the are "Americana Easter Eggers" and have the beard and the puffed neck head thing going on and done have the same structure. She is a great hen! Her babies have been great too. BCM covered her and made a hen with the most amazing dark green eggs.
Thanks for yalls input. I'm just sure I sound like a crazy person but that's ok.

 

[HPancho]

Ok yall have never been anything but helpful here!!! I talked with my daughter and we thought back as long and hard as we could about this chicken and the one that died that looked like her but a different color. I think they did have slight beards! So Easter Eggers.. they are SO different than the Easter Eggers we have now!! So Different! But I guess that's the thing with a "hybrid" I want a bunch like her!
The Easter Eggers we got that are white and copper and gray .. not the same. The female is skittish and lays a very small Egg. The male mated with the hens constantly they were almost completely bald. All of the we have hatched and friends have hatched of there eggs have been nothing but male so far!!!! I can't even imagine that!!! All roosters all the time!!! We have hatch 3 batches and friends too .. all roosters