Genetics creating barred Araucana

[klf73]

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So Ameraucanas don't actually have to have slate legs to be ameraucanas.
And black legs are allowed on black ameraucanas but white legs would not be allowed on cuckoo (or barred) ameraucanas.

I think you'll just end up with a headache.....

eta- I think if someone were to put forth the tremendous amout of time and effort to create a true breeding barred close to the SOP then maybe an exception could be made? But wouldn't something like this take many, many years?

 

[Old Rando]

To pips & peeps. The Ameraucana breed was developed in the 1970s and recognized in 1984 not 1894. Big difference!!

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Good info Rando! I think araucans as we know them now in the USA, were also developed around the same time? Each of these breeds seem distinctly different other then the blue egg gene.

Comments anyone?

 

[Krys109uk]

eta- I think if someone were to put forth the tremendous amout of time and effort to create a true breeding barred close to the SOP then maybe an exception could be made? But wouldn't something like this take many, many years?

Cuckoo anything is relatively easy.....it would only take a few years. But heck I don't care. I don't breed ameraucana nor do I intend doing so. I just think the reasoning behind the objections seem illogical.​

 

[pips&peeps]

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Duh, Leghorns were accepted around 1894.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

On my initial reading of your post it sounded like you meant ameraucanas were recognised in 1894. My first thought was typo, then thought 100 year old breed which I knew they weren't and then I closely reread it and realized you meant the leghorns were recognized in 1894, and therefore giving the leghorns, " 100 years of breeding on the ameraucana"

 

[pips&peeps]

I hated english composition..........

 

[wilds of pa]

If I'm not wrong i think all the araucana and ameraucana and ee were all created from the first birds bought into the USA at one time or another.. some say the ee came first others the araucana and still others the ameraucana. not sure on which came first as most of it is all speculation..

Lots of articles out there on this and alot of it is sort of a toss up on which came first..
I know years ago many different clubs were formed for the araucana and each club had its own interpretation of what an araucana should be and those groups had fought and fought for a few years with each other and all have collapsed from that time. You don't here much from the many from those times, probably because most have passed on. wish David Caudell and Wilfred L Cox were around yet,

I think Wilfred Cox has past on, but not sure of David Caudell, i would have loved to talk with these gentle men

Charlie

 

[draye]

bearpaw, did you ever get your Barred Araucana deveolped? Just curious.

 

[riverman]

I've got eggs in the incubator that should be starting to hatch on 1-7-11 that are Barred Rock Roo & Off-white EE hen! Very Excited to see these babies! Heres a pic of the dad & 1 of the mother hens.