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Not necessarily justifying the hypocrisy in that belief, but I've noticed that a lot of Ameraucana folks are particularly stubborn about mixed-color Ameraucanas not being true Ameraucanas, and I think it's most likely because of the struggle they've endured for decades trying to separate the...

The blue gene has a little bit of a dilution effect on gold pigment as well, so it makes sense that Blue Wheaten would tend to be a bit lighter than plain Wheaten. I was also thinking that she didn't look silver wheaten, but as the palest one she seemed like the most likely candidate if any...

Curious, none of them look silver wheaten to me... 🤔 Maybe the one back left? @I Like Turkeys Any thoughts on that? Looking back at the picture of the cockerel in question, it looks like he has a heterozygous pea comb instead of homozygous as proper for the breed. How sure are you that he's...

Do you have any pictures of the hens? He looks gold/silver split to me, so I'm wondering if one of your hens might be silver wheaten instead of gold wheaten as is proper for the variety. He is not Splash Wheaten as that would make his chest and tail more of a patchy grayish-white color instead...

Easter-eggers like what Murray McMurray sells aren't even mixed-color Ameraucanas. Their Easter-eggers have traits that you couldn't get out of just mixing true Ameraucana colors, traits that were bred out of Ameraucanas along the way as the breed was being established, so them trying to claim...

Ah, I was the one that said she looked partridgey on another thread, so this is good to know. Pending possible chick down coloration changing your stance, would you say she's definitely E^Wh/E^Wh with some other genes modifying the coloration, or is she potentially heterozygous for one of the...

Yes, and I was just giving the reasons why he is not a pure Ameraucana. A lot of people look at the Ameraucana clubs' resources and decide their birds are pure based solely on feather coloring being kinda-sorta similar (heck, sometimes even just based on the name of a color being kinda-sorta...

His color is more reminiscent of Wheaten than Brown Red (Brown Red has black flight feathers, Wheaten has a patch of reddish color in the flight feathers; the first screenshot you posted is a Wheaten), but again, too much black where there shouldn't be, and he has yellow skin, so not a pure...

The greenish tone to his legs means he has yellow skin, which a true Ameraucana shouldn't have. That, the comb, and there's something not quite right about his coloration, too much black where there shouldn't be black, all makes him an Easter-egger.

Oh my goodness, are you me? I also love silkied feathering, but not Silkies, themselves! For me it's more to do with the crest, though. I just don't like breeds with larger crests. Spitzhauben and Legbar style crests are the only acceptable ones to me. 🤭 I have a life goal of some day owning...

Yesss, silkied Ameraucanas are on my list!! 😍 Love me some silkied feathers!

It depends on what other genes they might carry, but it would be doable given a lot of time and effort. Some genes are just annoying to get rid of if they have them. Yellow skin, for example, is tough to breed out because it's recessive and can hide for generations, popping up later.

This little one looks like a lavender to me as well. Give it time to fluff out and dry off and it'll probably look more lavender-like. 🙂 I wondered about that, myself. If it was a long time ago, though, Mottled Orpingtons may not have been as widely available to use for such a project, while...

I hope you do get a response! I'd love to see more of the Brown Reds beyond the same hand full of pictures that have been on the Ameraucana breeder sites forever! I'm the same way with pure white chickens, although Ameraucanas are one of the few that I don't mind quite as much. I think it's...

Yeah, I think Wheaten (and Blue Wheaten, of course), Brown Red, and Silver are the only non-solid standardized varieties? And of those, the Wheatens are the only really somewhat commonly available ones. Heck, does anyone even work with Brown Reds anymore? You hardly see anything about them...

Those are beautiful! I know there are some breeders working on them, so hopefully they will become accepted and more popular over time. :fl I think that last one might actually be Erminette instead of Mottled. That's another project variety being worked on, albeit not by very many people from...

One of my Easter-eggers lays a super pretty blue egg as well. :love Most of mine have been green-eggers, though, or super pale blue. It's really luck of the draw with them. The Easter-egger in question's egg is on the right in this picture; the egg on the left was from a Silkie x Easter-egger...

They can. Being that they come from a background of mixed genetics, they can also lay green eggs, and on occasion one doesn't inherit the blue egg gene and lays brown eggs instead. I think white eggs are technically possible as well, but I've never personally heard of a hatchery Easter-egger...

Horses and dogs have pedigrees that can be traced to prove their purity even if they don't look right for their breed; chickens are not pedigreed in any way because it is impractical to try to do so with the way chickens are kept. Appearance is therefore everything in the chicken world. If it...