Hello everyone! I know that there has been some discussion in past years about barred/cuckoo Ameraucanas. My husband and I have been working with a feather researcher in CA and most recently used some of our LF Black Ameraucana to do a barred cross. Out of the 30-40 offspring, it looks like a few (4-6?) are going to have some nice Ameraucana features including the slate legs (no yellow in foot pads), pea comb, some beard/muff, and cuckoo/barred coloring. They are not yet developed enough to say much about type. These birds are 50% Bl. Ameraucana, 25% New Hampshire, and 25% Barred Rock-- all LF. They will be given away as layers this fall. The blood we need from them has already been drawn. They were not vaccinated as we did not have plans to keep them. However, they appear to be very healthy and are being currently kept in our fenced gardens for fall clean-up. If anyone thinks that they might be of interest to them, please let us know. They range in ages with the oldest ones maybe being 4 months (?) old.