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Enola, clean faced birds are not Araucanas - they are by definition Easter Eggers. What breeders call them is irrelevant.I would also like to add, dedicated Araucana breeders do not refer to their clean faced birds as Easter eggers. They realize clean faced birds are not show quality, but consider them necessary to their breeding program.
Personally, I prefer the clean faced chickens over the tufted ones.
Enola is correct. a bird that lacks a single trait required by the standard, yet is useful for breeding does not mean the bird is not that breed. it simply means it is not entirely to standard. in the case of lethal genes, using non tufted breeders means that you have fewer chicks that die in the shell. also, what do you consider birds with a single tuft? by your definition it would seem you consider them ees, too.I would also like to add, dedicated Araucana breeders do not refer to their clean faced birds as Easter eggers. They realize clean faced birds are not show quality, but consider them necessary to their breeding program.
Personally, I prefer the clean faced chickens over the tufted ones.
Enola, clean faced birds are not Araucanas - they are by definition Easter Eggers. What breeders call them is irrelevant.
The point here is that heritage/bloodlines/etc are irrelevant in chicken breeding - all that matters is displayed phenotype. Purebred doesn't mean anything. Mutt doesn't mean anything. The only thing that matters is how close that particular bird is to the breed specification.
Part of the Easter Egger phenotype - pretty much the only thing that's important - is that blue egg gene. If someone is selling you a bird as an Easter Egger and it doesn't lay blue or green eggs, you're not getting what you paid for.
Enola is correct. a bird that lacks a single trait required by the standard, yet is useful for breeding does not mean the bird is not that breed
When that trait is one of the specific defining traits of the breed, it absolutely does mean that the bird is not of the breed. A bird without a crest is not Polish. A bird without a buttercup style comb is not a Sicilian Buttercup. A bird without the correct feather type is not a Silkie - and a bird without tufts is not an Aracauna, and a bird that doesn't have the blue egg gene is not an Easter Egger.
Because its a classifying term. Words are useless if we just make up our own meanings all the time - the definition I stated is used by pretty much every recognized poultry body.Since an EE is not a breed why do you finish applying breed standards to the term EE?\
Because its a classifying term. Words are useless if we just make up our own meanings all the time - the definition I stated is used by pretty much every recognized poultry body.
As to the Crested Cream Legbar - there's an APA draft specification - the breed is officially recognized - so by definition, not Easter Eggers.
There is some pure irony that if you follow their definition you can breed an 'Easter Egger' to an 'Ameraucana' and get a pure 'Ameraucana' and some pure irony that even though a bird can be genetically and DNA an Ameraucana, if it doesn't look 'perfect' it's an Easter Egger...