Why so against EE?

[chics in the sun]

So what should we do about hatcheries and other chicken-sellers who dupe us? Start demanding our money back? Put it in the news? Report to the better buisness bureau? I'm tempted to take my leghorn back to the shop now that she is nine weeks old and set her on the counter with a picture of what an Ameracuana looks like. Just let her run and fly all over the place in her leghorn way until they give me my $5.99 back, plus expenses for having to add onto my coop to make room for the REAL Ameracauna, as I'm too attached to the leghorn to get rid of her.

 

[speckledhen]

You just need to learn what an Ameraucana is supposed to look like and look at the breed representations on hatchery websites if you want true Ameraucanas. Their written description is also a clue to what you are getting. If they mention "blue, green and pink" eggs, you know they have EE types. If they say they come in all sorts of unusual colors, you're not getting Ameraucanas. If they use the term "Ameraucana/Araucana", you're getting EE types.

Really, the burden is on the consumer to educate him/herself and know what is meant when the term "Ameraucana" is used and buy accordingly. If you know your stuff, you won't be fooled very often.

Lisa, I'm personally fine with the term "non-standard Ameraucana" when you're talking about crossing two different color varieties, like a Blue Wheaten with Blue/black/splash. Some are not, I realize. The problem is that a color cross like that will not breed true.

 

[Alabama ee]

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Ok I'm still looking for some answers - how can you tell them apart - are EE Totally different type of breed from the Ameraucana's


talk to me

I think it is interesting that an EE CAN be a mix, or not. It is also where the Ameraucana and Aruacana came from. People that started the Ameraucana and Aruacana wanted certain things. The Ameraucana folks wanted all blue eggs and the colors of the birds to be a certain list of colors. With the Aruacana, they wanted blue eggs, ear tuffs(which don't breed true since you can't breed 2 that have ear tuffs because if lethal gene), and to be rumpless.


Frankly, my favorite is the EE for several reasons. I like the many different feather patterns. I like that most of the EE's I have had lay different shades of blue and green, and sometimes have a brown egg. I like their persoalities. I also like fact they have enough of them in the gene pool that inbreeding is not as much a problem.

To answer your question, about how to tell which is which, please go to http://www.eastereggers.com/ . Then, go to "How to Identify an Easter Egg Chicken / Easter Egger ". You might also want to read the "History" section .

Hope that helps.

 

[speckledhen]

To answer your question, about how to tell which is which, please go to http://www.eastereggers.com/ . Then, go to "How to Identify an Easter Egg Chicken / Easter Egger ". You might also want to read the "History" section .

That is the site I was referring to. That is in no way an official anything or authoritative...and just plain full of misinformation to boot. It's written as tongue in cheek. Or perhaps someone became insulted when told they didn't have what they thought they had. It's a complete joke site, folks. Good grief, there certainly are white EEs! Look at their color list, for heavens sake. I'd hate for someone to think that was authoritative on the subject.

I'm not sure this subject is worth getting worked up over.

Why on earth this causes so much confusion is beyond me. Almost very modern day breed we have came from combining other breeds, then were standardized so they bred true. Same with Ameraucanas. I'm not sure why this is an issue, really. Wyandottes came from Cochins, among others, but we still have Cochins and Wyandottes aren't controversial in the least.

Okay, I'm backing out now. Let's not get too much like this here, please

or yet another EE/Ameraucana/Araucana thread will have to die a sad, horrid death.​

 

[cubalaya]

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they are not duping you. they have been selling ameraucana ee longer than ameraucanas have been an APA recognized breed.

 

[Alabama ee]

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If it is a white EE, there are a lot of folks that would envy you for having her.

 

[Alabama ee]

Here is another article that is interesting about the EE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Egger

 

[chics in the sun]

She is a LEGHORN- Not even an EE - my only clue at a few days old would have been her yellow legs, and as a newby I made the mistake of trusting what the manager told me the breeds were. I went home, looked them all up, made sure they were suitable. I had a friend I worked with that always brought in beutiful green-blue eggs for me, and I was so excited to have some of my own. It just isn't right.
I wouldn't have minded if she was a whilte EE, either, but from what everyone who helped me out on here has said, she is all leghorn - the big comb forming, yellow legs, big pretty tail, thin body type, and flighty and fast.

 

[Alabama ee]

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We get attached to ours to.

Maybe in the end, if she is a Leghorn, it will just add another color to your egg basket. With all the different kinds of birds, you will have a lot of different egg colors.

 

[cubalaya]

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exactly, they all came from the same south american birds.