Purpose: Dual Purpose
Comb: Pea
Broodiness: Average
Climate Tolerance: All Climates
Egg Productivity: Medium
Egg Size: Medium
Egg Color: Blue/Green
Breed Colors / Varieties: Black, Blue, Blue Wheaten, Brown Red, Buff, Silver Duckwing, Wheaten and White. Colors being worked on include Lavender, Splash, Splash Wheaten, Mottled, Salmon, Red Pyle and Black Gold.
Ameraucana and Easter Eggers are often confused with each other. An Ameraucana is a specific breed, an Easter Egger is a mutt chicken that has the gene for laying blue eggs.
To be an Ameraucana, a bird must have the following traits:
Eyes – bay (reddish brown)
Legs and Feet – slate (blue grey) black accepted on black birds, bottoms of feet white
Ear Lobes – red, pale on females (no white)
Comb – pea
Wattles – very small, possibly absent
Skin – white
Toes – four
Muff and Beard – forming three seperate lobes, absence is a DQ
Egg – blue, minty green
Male Weight – Cock 6.5 lbs/cockerel – 5.5 lbs
Female Weight – hen 5.5 lbs/pullet – 4.5 lbs
full breast, medium back, and tail carried at 45 degrees above horizontal
the bird must breed true to color
Note: While I often refer to my birds as Ameraucanas, they are actually Easter Eggers from a flock that included Ameraucanas. One or two might be purebred, and they share traits with the Ameraucanas, but most are not pure bred Ameraucanas and I should probably just call them Easter Eggers.
More information can be found here.
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