If you have a chicken that lays blue eggs, somewhere in its lineage is an Araucana. When bred with other varieties, they become a more stalwart breed. Several American blue egg layers have come ...

The Ameraucana chicken, which originated in the United States in the 1970s, descended from the Araucana chicken. Ameraucana chickens have muffs and beards, along with relatively short, curved tails.