Ameraucanas

Spelled incorrectly almost as often as my last name, Ameraucanas were developed in the United States in the 1970's. Ameraucanas are blue egg layers with a pea comb, and muffs and a beard. They were created by crossing the blue egg laying, rumpless, and tufted Araucanas from Chile with other breeds that had the characteristics the founders of the Ameraucana breed wished to promote such as ear-lobe and shank colour, overall size, and type. The first Ameraucanas were bantams and came in 8 colour varieties; White, Wheaten, Black, Blue, Blue Wheaten, Brown red, Buff and Silver. The same colour varieties have also now been approved for large-fowl Ameraucana by the American Poultry Association. It is large-fowl that I work with. Although I started with Blue, I am now focusing on Black and Self Blue (aka. lavender), and was part of the team that got the variety accepted by the American Poultry Association in 2019.

Ameraucanas are considered a dual purpose bird, for the production of meat and eggs, weighing from 5.5 to 6.5 lbs at maturity.

For more information about Ameraucanas, please visit the Ameraucana Breeders Club web site.

Contact me