Why are ameraucana roosters rare?

[sealer39]

He’s most likely an EE then. You have to get them from breeders or big Hatcheries like Cackle. They run about $20.00 per bird for pullets and a little less for strait runs or cockerels. Here’s and example of a Blue I bought from Cackle.

 

[FlockVillemaire]

Ameraucana is the correct spelling. If spelled any other way it’s just another name for Easter Egger used by hatcheries to confuse people.
http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/gallery.html
Your bird actually looks like a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana but the leg color looks off. Where did you get him?

A local higher quality feed store sold chicks (in 2024) labelled the correctly spelled "Ameraucana" but when I checked out that specific hatchery's website, they clearly added "EasterEgger" in their description! So even larger professional hatcheries do not all follow the spelling rule! Beware. Paying attention to price and research is important. $5 chicks extremely unlikely to be purebred "Ameraucanas". But Easter Eggers are often better layers, just not appropriate for purebred, or even homozygous OO (dominant blue egg alleles), for OliveEgger breeding.

 

[FlockVillemaire]

That isn’t a Americauna rooster in the picture, it’s a Easter Egger, which some people call Americaunas but is actually just a mutt blue/green Egger and is not the true Americauna. The true Americauna is Rare.

Please take better care with spelling for this breed, but even so, some larger hatcheries scam Easter Eggers as perfectly spelled "Ameraucanas" too!