What is this chick?

[Alexandra33]

Reminds me a lot of a Partridge Rock.

~Alex

 

[ChickenRoo]

Thank you! I am looking at pictures online and yes I think you are right! This is my second batch of chicks and I’m still learning all the types. My fist batch were nothing fancy rhode island red, red sex link, and white leg horn. This batch I got a Welsummer, Cuckoo Maran, two Ameraucanas/ Araucana/ Easter Eggers, and the two from the mixed pullet bin. It has been so fun trying to figure out what they are!

 

[Chicken Girl1]

Reminds me a lot of a Partridge Rock.

~Alex

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[Frazzemrat1]

two Ameraucanas/ Araucana/ Easter Eggers,

What did they turn out to be? Two of those are breeds and the other is a hybrid....

 

[Alexandra33]

I don't think hybrids with the colored egg gene are technically "true" EEs, they're mixes. Ameraucanas were actually developed from the Easter Egger.

~Alex

 

[ChickenRoo]

I’m not sure yet? They are only a week old. The sign on the cage said they were Araucanas but the worker at the feed store said they were Ameraucanas. I only paid $4.25 for each of them so I guessed they are more than like not pure bred and are Easter Eggers, but I really don’t know? I will post some pictures.

 

[ChickenRoo]

These are my two that are supposed to be Ameraucanas. The first 3 are pumpkin. I do not see signs of a beard or muffs maybe she will just be clean faced? Or tuffs which would rule out Araucana I think? The 4 -7 is freckles I see signed of a beard and muffs and she has greenish legs. 8-11 photos are of them together. I read that when you get them from a feed store they are generally mixed or Easter Eggers?

 

[Watermelon123]

I don't think hybrids with the colored egg gene are technically "true" EEs, they're mixes. Ameraucanas were actually developed from the Easter Egger.

~Alex

Actually, the Ameraucana is a fairly new breed, developed from Aracaunas. In fact, "Americauna" is a mix of "America" and "Aracauna".

The fact is, the Aracauna it's self is a mix of two breeds, causing problems when they reached Europe because there were two strains, one with beards and tails; the other rumpless and tufted. It was eventually decided that the later would be the standard for Arucanas, and that any beards or tails would be disqualified.
Over in America however, we were breeding for the opposite, we WANTED birds with large beards and tails, and of course blue eggs. Cutting it a little short, after generations of selective breeding, we were left with the Ameraucana we know today.

As for Easter eggers, they were always "diluted" by others. This happened with both strains of the original Aracaunas, thanks to the media of the time spewing lies about how blue eggs had so many "magical benefits". Hatcheries were quick to mix breeds, often with a production breed, to make money.

 

[Alexandra33]

Actually, the Ameraucana is a fairly new breed, developed from Aracaunas. In fact, "Americauna" is a mix of "America" and "Aracauna".

The fact is, the Aracauna it's self is a mix of two breeds, causing problems when they reached Europe because there were two strains, one with beards and tails; the other rumpless and tufted. It was eventually decided that the later would be the standard for Arucanas, and that any beards or tails would be disqualified.
Over in America however, we were breeding for the opposite, we WANTED birds with large beards and tails, and of course blue eggs. Cutting it a little short, after generations of selective breeding, we were left with the Ameraucana we know today.

As for Easter eggers, they were always "diluted" by others. This happened with both strains of the original Aracaunas, thanks to the media of the time spewing lies about how blue eggs had so many "magical benefits". Hatcheries were quick to mix breeds, often with a production breed, to make money.

Very interesting. It's easy to get lost in the complexity of all this.

I'm just going on what I've learned through @FowlStuff's (creator of many Ameraucana varieties) direction, whose judgement I trust. @junebuggena also taught me otherwise.This is what it says on the Ameraucana Alliance website:

~Alex

 

[Frazzemrat1]

My understanding, is that Ameraucana were bred from Aruacana... and EEs were bred from them.
OP, you can have Araucana w/out the tufts, but they aren't show quality. I have one w/out the tufts that is a full blooded araucana. The way I understand how they breed, is that a percentage of a clutch will be clean faced, another percentage would have one copy of the tufted gene and be tufted, and the other portion would have two copies of the tufted gene and never hatch. The tufted gene is a deadly gene, if a chick has two copies they die while still in the shell.