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Here at White Mountains Ranch we are working on becoming a nationally recognized breeder of purebred Heritage Ameraucanas. We feed them 100% Organic feed, Organic BOSS, Organic Scratch, and Organic Fruits and Veggies from our gardens. We hand raise our Ameraucana with care and affection and spend time with them every day.
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A Brief History Of The Ameraucana Chicken
The Ameraucana was developed in the United States in the 1970s from Araucana chickens brought from Chile. It was bred to retain the unusual blue-egg gene of the Araucana, but eliminate the tufted and rumpless lethal alleles of the parent breed. It was added to the Standard of Perfection of the American Poultry Association in 1984. The name derives from "America" and "Araucana".
The Ameraucana is recognized in the United States as a separate breed from the Araucana. In some other countries, including Australia and the United Kingdom, both the tailed and rumpless variants of the Araucana are considered a single breed.
The Ameraucana is one of the few chicken breeds to lay blue eggs. It shows many similarities to the Araucana, including the pea comb and the blue egg gene. It is tailed, muffed and bearded, whereas the Araucana in the United States has earmuffs and is rumpless. The earlobes are small and round, the wattles small or absent; earlobes, comb and wattles are all red. The shanks are slate-blue, tending to black in the black plumage variant.
Eight color variants are recognized in the American Standard of Perfection: black, blue, blue wheaten, brown red, buff, silver, wheaten and white.
Most hatcheries and feed stores incorrectly label their Easter Egger chickens as Ameraucanas or Americanas, when they are in fact a mixed breed Easter Egger. No other breed has such confusion. It is pretty safe to assume, that unless you received your birds from a breeder, that they are most likely Easter Eggers instead.
Ours are true heritage Wheaten and Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas.
The Ameraucana is recognized in the United States as a separate breed from the Araucana. In some other countries, including Australia and the United Kingdom, both the tailed and rumpless variants of the Araucana are considered a single breed.
The Ameraucana is one of the few chicken breeds to lay blue eggs. It shows many similarities to the Araucana, including the pea comb and the blue egg gene. It is tailed, muffed and bearded, whereas the Araucana in the United States has earmuffs and is rumpless. The earlobes are small and round, the wattles small or absent; earlobes, comb and wattles are all red. The shanks are slate-blue, tending to black in the black plumage variant.
Eight color variants are recognized in the American Standard of Perfection: black, blue, blue wheaten, brown red, buff, silver, wheaten and white.
Most hatcheries and feed stores incorrectly label their Easter Egger chickens as Ameraucanas or Americanas, when they are in fact a mixed breed Easter Egger. No other breed has such confusion. It is pretty safe to assume, that unless you received your birds from a breeder, that they are most likely Easter Eggers instead.
Ours are true heritage Wheaten and Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas.
We breed towards the APA (American Poultry Association) breed standard, with attention to weight and size, beard and muff size, egg production and feather coloring. We cull for flightiness, hyperactivity, bad attitudes, or poor layers.
Here are some of our birds...
These are our purebred heritage Ameraucanas.
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Our hatching / shipping season runs from approximately February to Septmember.