← All breeds Ameraucana Ameraucana breed profile: Blue eggs, pea comb, slate legs, medium, good layer.
Standard at a glance
Eggs
Comb Pea comb
Legs Slate
Skin White Size, laying and temperament
Frame height medium
Egg production good layer
Broodiness rarely broody
Docility easygoing
Bone density medium
Foraging skill good forager
Cold hardiness cold-hardy On the app's 1 to 5 scale. Load this breed as a goal and every bird you score is matched against it.
Crosses with Ameraucana What a Ameraucana hen throws with a rooster of each breed. Open one for both directions and the full genetics.
× Araucana Blue eggs, pea comb × Barred Plymouth Rock Green eggs, pea comb × Bielefelder Green eggs, pea comb × Black Australorp Green eggs, pea comb × Black Copper Marans Green eggs, pea comb × Blue Andalusian Blue eggs, pea comb × Buff Orpington Green eggs, pea comb × Cochin Green eggs, pea comb × Delaware Green eggs, pea comb × Dominique Green eggs, walnut comb × Easter Egger Blue eggs, pea comb × Faverolles Green eggs, pea comb × Golden Comet Green eggs, pea comb × ISA Brown Green eggs, pea comb × Jersey Giant Green eggs, pea comb × Legbar Blue eggs, pea comb × Light Brahma Green eggs, pea comb × New Hampshire Green eggs, pea comb × Olive Egger Green eggs, pea comb × Polish Blue eggs, pea comb × Rhode Island Red Green eggs, pea comb × Silkie Green eggs, pea comb × Silver-Laced Wyandotte Green eggs, walnut comb × Speckled Sussex Green eggs, pea comb × Welsummer Green eggs, pea comb × White Leghorn Blue eggs, pea comb Now with your own birds Load the Ameraucana standard as your breeding goal in one tap. Add your flock, set a breeding goal, and the pairing engine ranks every hen and rooster you own against it. Free for up to 15 birds.
Sources Ameraucana Breed standards and profiles The Livestock Conservancy: breed pages and the "Pick a Breed" comparison chart (egg colour, rate of lay, broodiness, temperament, foraging, cold hardiness) Oklahoma State University, Breeds of Livestock: chickens (comb, skin and shank colour, egg colour, weights, origin) University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension A2880, Chicken Breeds and Varieties (egg colour, skin colour, comb, class and use) American Poultry Association, recognised breeds and varieties (which breeds and varieties are standardised) The Poultry Club of Great Britain, breed pages (British and rare breeds) Checked September 2026. Hybrids and breeds no reference covers are marked approximate. Egg colour on these pages follows one rule: Brown is any shade a buyer would call brown; Cream/tinted is off-white.