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Your “Ameraucana” chickie is an Easter Egger.
While this is true, she is actually a pure breed Ameracauna. Fun fact Easter eggers are Araucana or Ameracauna mixed with other breeds to creat a different colored egg. While Ameracauna and Araucana are a pure chicken breed, Easter egger usually refers to all chickens that lay a non white or brown egg.
 
While this is true, she is actually a pure breed Ameracauna. Fun fact Easter eggers are Araucana or Ameracauna mixed with other breeds to creat a different colored egg. While Ameracauna and Araucana are a pure chicken breed, Easter egger usually refers to all chickens that lay a non white or brown egg.
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Trust me. I’m definitely an expert on this. I actually have a detailed thread about it if you would like to read it.
Your little chickie is not a pure color. Her feet also have peachy-yellow bottoms.
She also has no muffs to speak of.
If you bought her from Mcmurray, under the name Ameraucana, she’s an EE. They notoriously both sell pure Ameraucanas (only in specific colors for a lot of money) and also keep up the hype that their EEs are Ameraucanas.
Easter Eggers are often sold as Ameraucanas because it’s easy to pas them off as such. They typically have pea combs, dark legs, poofy faces, and lay colored eggs. It’s mostly about them colored eggs anyways.
She’s absolutely adorable and is definitely a colored Egger. Whether she’s an EE or a Whiting True Blue/Green, I’m not sure.
 
When your set up is working properly you don't have to keep turning the heat up and down in the house or turning the heat off on the chicks.Baby chicks can't regulate their own body heat in the beginning and can be detrimental to their survival.Its very stressful to have huge temperature swings every hour or so(2 hrs)
Yes I know I’m not knew to raising chicks. This is what I have found that works well for me and the chicks are never stressed out, hot or cold this keeps the temp comfortable especially in a plastic container that doesn’t let the heat escape like a traditional wood and wire brooder or outdoor coop brooder. If you notice with a momma hen, the chicks aren’t always under the hen in a temperature regulated box, a hen doesn’t have a thermometer to tell her what temp she needs to be at for her babies, they watch the behavior of the chicks to see when she needs to call them under her. I’ve found that most of the time when my hens raise their own, the chicks hardly ever spend time under the mom not even at night.
 
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Trust me. I’m definitely an expert on this. I actually have a detailed thread about it if you would like to read it.
Your little chickie is not a pure color. Her feet also have peachy-yellow bottoms.
She also has no muffs to speak of.
If you bought her from Mcmurray, under the name Ameraucana, she’s an EE. They notoriously both sell pure Ameraucanas (only in specific colors for a lot of money) and also keep up the hype that their EEs are Ameraucanas.
Easter Eggers are often sold as Ameraucanas because it’s easy to pas them off as such. They typically have pea combs, dark legs, poofy faces, and lay colored eggs. It’s mostly about them colored eggs anyways.
She’s absolutely adorable and is definitely a colored Egger. Whether she’s an EE or a Whiting True Blue/Green, I’m not sure.
No she isn’t a whiting true blue or true green, those two breeds are fairly new within the last three or four years.
 
2 silver laced Wyandot, 3 whiting true blue females, 1 whiting true blue male, 2 jersey giants, 2 golden laced wyandots, 3 whiting true green females, 1 whiting true green male, 1 Ameracauna, and 1 free surprise chick. I think my only surviving chick is the ameracauna. All were females except the 2 males. None of them normally have a high mortality rate from my experience.
 
The chicks are smart enough to go in and out away from the heat but yours can't.They're trapped in that tall container.I suggest you tape some plastic on the floor.lay some cardboard down over top of the plastic so the chick doesn't get its feet on the plastic. Then shavings on top of that.Take some more boxes and tape them together in a circle to make a fence around the baby chicks then set the light up close enough to heat the temperature gauge to the correct temperature for this baby chicks age then place the chick in this boxed in area.Make sure that you make a fenced in area 3 times bigger than the chicks got down and don't make the walls taller than 18" .Don't keep changing the temperature in the room either.Set it and forget it.
I don’t change the temp in the room it’s always in the high 70s trust me it’s my bed room and very uncomfortable to try and sleep in at night. I don’t have control over the thermostat my grandpa does and if I even try to change the ac temp for even an hour I get screamed at the next day for it.
 
But it’s no time to fuss about breeds. Great thing is that she’s alive and lovely and I would pay you 100 bucks for her because she’s so gosh darn cute. :love
 
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