Whatbreed am I?

[chics in the sun]

Wow - a tangled mess of breed descriptions here.

An Araucana is a rumpless breed with ear tuffs - lays blue eggs. (I think they do also often have beards and/or muffs)
An Ameraucana is a breed with beards and muffs (like yours) - lays blue eggs.
An Easter Egger is not a breed, but a mix of generally one of those two breeds along with another one to make a colored egg layer, usually has slate legs, sometimes has beard and/ or muffs (one of mine doesn't, one does), and can lay any colored egg, but usually it is a blue-green one.
Even if she hatched from a "normal" colored egg, she may still lay a colored egg.

 

[Katy]

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Sorry about double posting. Anyways, it looks at LEAST 12 weeks, and a hen FOR SURE at that age. Younger, and it could be a rooster, although I doubt it. As for the color of the eggs: Auracanas (Easter Eggers) are not a recognized breed, due to the fact that many of them are crosses. The only thing that really makes an Auracana is a gene for laying green eggs (although many Auracanas lay pink or tan eggs). Since she's a cross she could lay pretty much any color of eggs.

Sorry, but Araucanas are not EEs....and they are a recognized breed. Araucanas lay a colored egg while EE's can lay any color of egg.

 

[Yazzo]

My mistake....should have called it an Easter Egger: an Auracana is a TOTALLY different, South American breed, although EEs are usually mislabeled as Auracanas, so that's actually what I meant. She could be half Americauna too.

Even if she hatched from a "normal" colored egg, she may still lay a colored egg.

Agree. As I said, the only thing that technically makes an Easter Egger a Easter Egger is the gene for laying "Easter eggs".

 

[zazouse]

I have a some barred rock EE cross that looks just like that so that would be my guess some of mine have a pea comb some don't.

I have a photo let me see if i can find one.

 

[19hhbelgian]

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Araucanas don't have beards and sideburds/muffs.

Yeah, they do: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=auracana&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1600&bih=707 I've had chickens for many years, and have chickens I'm SURE are Auracanas, and they have sideburns/muffs. Since all Auracanas are 'mixes' though, some lack the sideburns.

Araucanas are a rumpless bird that can have tufts (Different than muffs, or "fluffy cheeks" as I adoringly like to call them

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Ameraucanas will have the muffs and beards, and are tailed. There is a big difference between these 2 breeds.
If you had chickens with side burns and fluffy cheeks, they could have been Ameraucanas, but were NOT Araucanas.

ANYWAY, now that I have that out of my system

, Yours is an easter egger - a cross between an Ameraucana and another barred breed. I do think it is a rooster seeing as how it is only 12 weeks. That is a very red and pronounced pea comb for a pullet at 12 weeks old. My pea combed pullets have always matured slowly, and have never been that red and pronounced at 12 weeks. He is very handsome! If the eggs were brown that they hatched out of, I'd guess they will lay brown eggs, unless they got the blue egg gene from the colored egg layer parent.

 

[Yazzo]

19hhbelgian:
I'm well aware of that, as I just stated. Araucana is usually just a mislabel. So no, you don't have an Auracana, could be a cross between an Americana, but probably a cross with an Easter Egger. Either way she is an EE.

 

[dsqard]

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They might keep the muffs. You might want to see if you could get an Ameraucana rooster somewhere. I don't know enough about genetics to tell you what color you should get if you are trying to keep the barring. I am sure that someone with a lot more knowledge can chime in on that one. Very neat looking birds!

 

[Chris09]

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Araucanas don't have beards and sideburds/muffs.

Yeah, they do: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=auracana&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1600&bih=707 I've had chickens for many years, and have chickens I'm SURE are Auracanas, and they have sideburns/muffs. Since all Auracanas are 'mixes' though, some lack the sideburns.

Araucanas have ear-tufts in the U.S. not beard or "sideburns" (no chicken has "sideburns")
Here is a link that has U.S. Auracanas.
http://www.araucanasonline.com/photos.html

Chris

 

[Illia]

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Araucanas don't have beards and sideburds/muffs.

Yeah, they do: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=auracana&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1600&bih=707 I've had chickens for many years, and have chickens I'm SURE are Auracanas, and they have sideburns/muffs. Since all Auracanas are 'mixes' though, some lack the sideburns.

Well your problem then is that you spelled Araucana wrong.

A lot of hatcheries claim to sell "Araucanas" with muffs and beards, but they're Easter Eggers, which are mutts.

Araucanas and Ameraucanas are both separate breeds, and NOT mutts like Easter Eggers. Look it up, there's even the Ameraucana Breeder's Club, with its own APA Standard of Perfection, as well as the Araucana Breeder's Club, also, with its own standard. Read them, and you'll see that Araucanas do NOT have a beard or muffs, but instead tufts.

 

[Katy]

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Yeah, they do: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=auracana&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1600&bih=707 I've had chickens for many years, and have chickens I'm SURE are Auracanas, and they have sideburns/muffs. Since all Auracanas are 'mixes' though, some lack the sideburns.

Well your problem then is that you spelled Araucana wrong.

A lot of hatcheries claim to sell "Araucanas" with muffs and beards, but they're Easter Eggers, which are mutts.

Araucanas and Ameraucanas are both separate breeds, and NOT mutts like Easter Eggers. Look it up, there's even the Ameraucana Breeder's Club, with its own APA Standard of Perfection, as well as the Araucana Breeder's Club, also, with its own standard. Read them, and you'll see that Araucanas do NOT have a beard or muffs, but instead tufts.

It would help people take them seriously if they spelled the names of the breeds that they've claimed to been raising for many years correctly....wouldn't it.