It\'s pretty simple Doug. Many county fair judges don\'t know what to look for in the breed. In our state they judge by the Danish system, so they are bound to give out so many blues, so many reds, so many pinks and whites.
McMurray is another story. They have been informed and just don\'t care because they are making a lot of money selling birds that are neither araucana nor ameraucana. They don\'t even bother to spell the name correctly. The last I checked, however, do they stipulate the colored egg birds they sell are not for show.