Transcription of APA Large: Ameraucana Bantam
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breed (with links to other sites with images and more information) Varieties / Rarity / What's a hen weigh? Class and Type Origins Egg color & productivity; egg size Comb Skin color Earlobes Brooding Hardiness Maturing Behavior Ameraucana FS PB club Black, Blue, Blue-wheaten, Brown-red, Buff, Silver, Wheaten, & White Easter Eggers are common. Standard Ameraucanas are rare. 80% / 12% (EEs/pure) Unchanged since 2003 Standard: kg Bantam : kg APA (1984): large : All Other Bantam : All Other Clean Legged PC: Not recognized Layer Fancy: Muffed, Bearded South American. May or may not be genetically related to the Araucana. One theory is that Ameraucanas were developed by crossing Aracaunas with other breeds. The more current, more accepted theory is that a different breed from Chile, the Quechua, was the parent stock from which the Ameraucanas were developed. Standardized & accepted into APA in 1984. Note: whatever name they use, most hatcheries do not sell standard Ameraucanas, but sell Easter Eggers -- chickens that may lay blue, green, or other colored eggs, but do not conform to standard.
Breed (with links to other sites with images and more information) Varieties / Rarity / What's a hen weigh? Class and Type Origins Egg color &
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