Why wouldn't she be an Ameraucana?

[OutdoorFun4]

Meet Bountiful.

Picture was taken a month ago before she started to lay. Her comb and muff have really come in since then.

We bought her from our local AGWAY. I think they use Ideal.

Like all hatcheries the birds are sold as Ameraucanas. I am a good BYC member and I know from the countless posts that you can't get Ameraucana from a hatchery. So, I happily buy my Easter Egger chicks looking forward to my green eggs. (Bought a brown one and a light one.)

BUT HOLD THE PHONE.... Bountiful doesn't have green legs like the other one. Her legs are slate. She is a perfect match for the Brown Red Ameraucana standard. And finally, she lays blue eggs.

So is she, or isn't she?

Her sister, Frightful, is a perfect match for the Silver standard. She has green legs and lays green eggs. She is an EE.

 

[LilPeeps]

An EE does not have to have green legs or conform to any kind of standard, as they are a mix. Some have green legs, some have slate, yellow, pink, etc. They can also come in any color/pattern and lay any color egg. The pattern exhibited by your bird is common in EEs. Unfortunately, since she is from a hatchery, she is not an ameraucana. She is simply a mix that more closely resembles ameraucanas than do most EEs.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! If you mate her with a brown red Ameraucana roo and they make brown red chicks, then she is a brown red Ameraucana --- seems reasonable to me, anyways.

Lisa

 

[speckledhen]

If you do what Dipsy said, the proof would be in the chicks, but tht means you'd have to get what you KNOW to be a brown red male from a breeder to try it. To me, she looks similar to a brown red, but doesn't look exactly like a brown red, but I'm no expert on that color. Of the thousands of EEs from Ideal (feedstore buys tons of them every year), I've never seen a brown red. Be cool if she was, though.

 

[weaveagarden]

Are her eggs a true blue? Or is there a little bit of green in them? If they are a true blue, it might be worth the money and effort to see if you could mate her with a certified americauna male. You might just have gotten a great deal on your chick.

Good luck, and if you do, keep us informed!

 

[speckledhen]

I know that lots of EEs do lay blue eggs, not green. HenHaven had an EE from a hatchery in California who laid the most beautiful blue eggs, but she was very much an EE. Nothing wrong with that and I bet you love those blue eggs!

 

[weaveagarden]

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Thanks for the info. I had been reading that EE's never had a true blue egg. I have 4 EE hens who will start laying in a few months..... I will hold out some hope now. Thanks!

 

[herechickchick]

I breed brown red Ameraucanas and her coloring in not brown red. I will try to get some photos of my girls to show the difference. She is very beautiful, just not Brown Red.

 

[pips&peeps]

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Photo of brown red ameraucana courtesy of the Ameraucana Breeders Club. She is similar but not a brown red.

Her body type is wrong also; her back appears too long and her tail carrage is wrong also.

 

[herechickchick]

pips&peeps :

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Photo of brown red ameraucana courtesy of the Ameraucana Breeders Club. She is similar but not a brown red.

http://ameraucana.org/scrapbook_files/lfbrownredf.JPG

Her body type is wrong also; her back appears too long and her tail carrage is wrong also.

Thanks Jean.