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The thing is, it doesn't matter if all your hens are pure Ameraucana. If they are a different variety, you will not get Ameraucana. You will be breeding Easter Eggers. The Blue Wheaten boys to the Black hens will produce Easter Eggers. It's not about pedigree with chicken breeds. It's all about does this bird match a standard for both body type and coloring, and does it reproduce in a predictable manner. You have to keep in mind that each variety was created using different breeds to get the coloring. They are, essentially, different breeds. Foundation stock for the Blacks was completely different from the gene pool that produced the Wheaten varieties.I do have other ameracauna hens that are pure, I have black and wheaton hens. I just got new chicks from a breeder to freshen up the lines and get a roo which i didnt have.
The thing is, it doesn't matter if all your hens are pure Ameraucana. If they are a different variety, you will not get Ameraucana. You will be breeding Easter Eggers. The Blue Wheaten boys to the Black hens will produce Easter Eggers. It's not about pedigree with chicken breeds. It's all about does this bird match a standard for both body type and coloring, and does it reproduce in a predictable manner. You have to keep in mind that each variety was created using different breeds to get the coloring. They are, essentially, different breeds. Foundation stock for the Blacks was completely different from the gene pool that produced the Wheaten varieties.
Make sense?
It does not matter if both parents are 'pure' Ameraucana. If they are different varieties, they will not produce offspring that match the requirements for Ameraucana. Same goes for any other breed.
Blue/Black/Splash varieties are actually an exception to the rule, since they are all based on the same pattern genes. The only difference is the presence or lack of the dilute gene. When it come to chickens breed is not dependant on lineage. It's purely based on whether or not a breed meets the breed standard, and if it will breed true at least 50% of the time when paired with another bird of the same coloring. Sorry, that's just how it is. I didn't make the rules.It actually does not apply to all other breeds. A black silkie over a splash silkie yields blue silkies. Other colors that are non standard are also still recognized as silkies, they are just considered non standard. An Ameraucana to an Ameraucana should still be considered an Ameraucana no matter the color. It's just a non standard bird, but not a whole different breed altogether. I know you serious breeders out there like to argue that, but it's really just very snobby sounding. Color variations shoul not change the breed.