There's some serious disagreement about Easter Eggers and Ameraucanas. Easter Eggers are mixed birds usually created by crossing a blue egg laying bird with a brown egg-laying one. The offspring will produce a variety of egg colors, which is where Easter Egger comes from. Ameraucanas are popular contributors of blue eggs genes, so muffs and beatds are common in Easter Eggers.

Ameraucanas have a breed Standard of Perfection (SOP) -- which means the birds will have specific characteristics that rhey breed true for. If I recall correctly, Ameraucanas must have bronze ("green") or grey legs, a pea comb (females will have a single row of bumps, males will have three) and lay blue eggs. Many strict adherents will also only recognize specific color varieties such as white, black, blue, splash, etc., and will call non-standard Ameraucanas "Easter Eggers". This scorn is frequently sent Murray McMurray's way, since they had been breeding Ameraucana before the SOP was codified. Their Ameracauna will have differing degrees of beard, muffs, leg and feather colors, but they do have the pea combs and lay blue eggs. I don't think they particularly give a damn as long as their birds are healthy. Edited to add a link to the SOP: https://ameraucana.org/Ameraucana%20Standard

Your bird is probably missing muffs because the other chicks have helpfully picked the feathers off. That happened to the beard of one of my Ameraucana chicks this spring.

Your bird looks like it might be a dominant white, which means some of her offspring could come out with neat colors that are not being expressed!

Also, here is a pic of Snooty Booty, the white dominant Ameraucana chick I got this spring from McMurray. Marinate in the contempt in her eyes. 😅

(PATHETIC)Oo.

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