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Mainly correct but it would be more accurate to say the Ameraucana has 1 blue gene and 1 non-blue, there are several genes associated with brown eggs and they don't displace the blue gene. You can also get a pretty reliable indicator for the presence of the blue egg gene in easter eggers by the...

Thanks for that run down. TBH I have "played" with the chicken calculator but I find its usefulness very limited by the fact I don't know which genes are present in a given breed to start with and I can't seem to find a reliable source for that. For example I knew Isa Browns had dominant white...

Googled wheaten and blue wheaten and they definitely seem the closest match. Oddly I don't think there's any actual wheaten in their ancestry. I had some duckwing "ameracaunas" that a local breeder had re-created by crossing araucana to OEG in the first generation that disappeared completely in...

I have a line of mostly Araucana with layers of leghorn & cream legbar infused in. The cream legbar heritage has produced some novel patterns and colors over the years and whenever I see red patterning I try to bring it out but historically they were always male, I finally got a hen last year...

My God people are overthinking this. If a rooster attacks you do exactly what any other rooster would do in your situation, kick the #%^ out of it and chase it around the pen for 5 minutes in a fit of rage. Problem solved. Permamently. This is exactly what the winning rooster does in a fight and...

Thanks for the good wishes but it was just not to be. The breed at least, I have moved 1 flock to a hobby farm and sold the rest of the birds as easter eggers at an auction on Wednesday, one breeder took most of them but all the barred pullets went to someone else (actually it was the auction...

So a couple of years back I set out to create a new breed of chicken that retained the intelligence and personality of an Isa Brown but pared back the laying output to about 90% so as to eliminate the host of reproductive disorders and cancers that doom so many of these birds to a short life and...

Well my first instinct was to cull him as he's taking up space in a big pen that my leghorn x CCL rooster would be better placed in but he's owned by another tenant who's grown attached and wants to breed generic birds for eggs/eating from him. I've lent him a few of my older hens I'm not...

Owner says the last tenant paid $300 for this dubious looking character. I'm sceptical...

Yes it's considered quite prevalent here or at least that's what hatcheries that can afford the vaccine tell us. I believe it did quite a number on the Australian poultry industry in the 70's and 80's at a time when importing the vaccine was banned but not sure how wide-spread today. I know I've...

Yeah I'm not exactly happy with the last option but wasn't sure how else to put it although I'm open to suggestions. I chose it myself as I don't have a quarantine pen but I wouldn't go as far as saying I never think/worry about Mareks or other diseases when I'm looking to get more chickens. As...

This query mainly relates to Mareks disease and how important vaccinations are to breeders/buyers of poultry. In my city monitoring poultry adverts it appears that large hatcheries that vaccinate are selling as many birds as they can hatch and breeders who don't are struggling to sell stock and...

Yes I know that, the white spot is supposedly from the male having 2 copies of the barring gene to the female's 1 which is why I'm curious about the effects of using a hybrid hen or mixing barred rocks and cream legbars in regard to this white spot. Especially since I've read the Cream Legbar...

I have some Cream Legbar/Leghorn crosses at 2 months old now that I'm counting on to lay lots of large blue eggs and a Cream Legbar/Hyline Brown cross that will lay olive-coloured eggs but I got them from a backyard breeder not a hatchery. I imagine most hatcheries are producing their EE's by...

The blue egg gene is dominant meaning it will always express in the first generation of crossing a blue-egg layer to a brown or white. If you then crossed 2 of these offspring together 25% will have two copies of the blue egg gene, 50% will have 1 copy and 25% 0 copies. It's from that last 25%...

I have a female from a CCL/hyline brown cross that I can't help but notice has the exact same dosage of the barring gene as a pure-bred CCL female if not the same coloring so my question is if bred back to a CCL rooster will the offspring be sexable? And would that mean that CCL and barred...

I don't know much about NZ araucanas but I can tell you color genetics are the same regardless of breed so your Lavender calculations are correct. As for egg color blue is dominant and will always show up in the next generation. Cross 2 half-araucanas and 75% will have blue and 25% won't - the...

Well she laid her first egg the day after the last post at exactly 19 weeks of age. Since then about 5-6 medium eggs a week. Occasionally she takes a day off and comes back with an eggs as big as the ones laid by my hyline browns. I've attached a pic of 3 of her eggs next to a hyline brown and 2...

Wouldn't be my first choice but on the OTOH I read somewhere the entire Araucana line in Australia descended from eggs that came in 2 weeks before quarantine laws came in and hatched out 5 cockerels which were crossed to Marans so it's not without precedent. The other useful thing I've learnt...

When it comes to personality there's the modern production hybrid (isa/hyline brown) and then there's everything else. The increased intelligence, boldness and friendliness makes them seem like almost another species, it's like comparing dogs to cats and every backyard breeder I've known who's...