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United States Chicken Breeds: Java, Buckeye, Rhode Island Red, Wyandotte, Plymouth Rock, Ameraucana, Dominique, Delaware, Lamona, Iowa Blue
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-04.
ISBN 9781155503561
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Java, Buckeye, Rhode Island Red, Wyandotte, Plymouth Rock, Ameraucana, Dominique, Delaware, Lamona, Iowa Blue, American Game, New Hampshire, Winnebago, Jersey Giant, Rhode Island White, California Gray, Holland. Excerpt: Ameraucana item Traits item Notes item Blue egg layer breed item Chicken ( Gallus gallus domesticus ) The Ameraucana is a breed of chicken developed in the United States . The name is a portmanteau term of Amer ican and Ar aucana (a related breed). Ameraucanas come in both a large and bantam variety. Eight colors are officially recognized for poultry shows by the American Poultry Association : Black, Blue, Blue Wheaten, Brown Red, Buff, Silver, Wheaten and White. Characteristics Ameraucanas are similar to Araucana chickens because both have pea combs and lay blue shelled eggs, but they have many differences and are completely different breeds. Some other Ameraucana traits include full tails, muffs and slate or black legs depending on the variety. Bantam cocks weigh 30 ounces and bantam hens weigh 26 ounces while large fowl cocks weigh 6 1/2 pounds and large fowl hens weigh 5 1/2 pounds. Confusion with Easter Egg chickens this hen shows all the characteristics of Ameraucanas, such as a muff, pea comb, and red earlobes, but is an unrecognized color The Ameraucana Breeders Club defines an Easter Egg chicken, or Easter Egger , as any chicken that possesses the blue egg gene, but doesn t fully meet any breed description as defined in the APA standards. Further, even if a bird (that possesses the blue egg gene) meets an APA standard breed description, but doesn t meet a variety description or breed true at least 50 % of the time it is considered an Easter Egg chicken. The American Poultry Association's American Standard of Perfection contains breed and variety descri
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