If my eggs look exactly like the shipped eggs...

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Sylviaanne

Sylviaanne

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If my eggs look exactly like the shipped eggs I just received does that mean all my hens are Ameraucana? They don't all look like it and I will post pictures of them on the What Breed or Gender is this? forum.

I did a swap with chicken-n-worms, Melissa, for Ameraucana eggs but when I got them, they look exactly like the eggs I already get from my hens. I know some of my hens are Ameraucana but when I bought chicks from Alan at Heartland, I chose other chicks for their looks so I don't remember which chicks were which.

These are the eggs from Melissa. The small ones are Silkie and Cochin Bantams. Sooooo clean!

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These are eggs from my chickens. Same colors. Those that look white are a lighter shade of blue/green, not white. The only white eggs I get are from my ducks.
The eggs Melissa sent me got here with only one casualty.
Melissa did a very good job wrapping them. Unfortunately the eggs I sent her didn't fair as well. She should still get a good hatching of ducks but I wish the eggs I sent her had as good a percentage of survival from the post office.
 
Ameraucanas lay only blue or green eggs, no browns or pinks or whites. What you probably have, and what you probably got in the mail, are eggs from Easter Eggers, which are mixes that can lay blue or green eggs but sometimes lay brown or pink. Pictures would help us determine what you have, but if it's not laying a blue or green egg, it isn't a true ameraucana :)
 
I don't know about that, I once had a silkie that laid blue eggs. But she looked like a bona fide silkie so she was either a genetic anomaly or she was mixed and REALLY took after her mommy!

Granted, I doubt that all those eggs came from one hen. So you're probably right. I just like talking about my weird silkie hen, Muppet.
 
She might have had some ee or Ameraucana in her background somewhere! There are even silkied ameraucanas, so you never know :)
 
Pyxis said:
She might have had some ee or Ameraucana in her background somewhere! There are even silkied ameraucanas, so you never know
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A silkied Americauna? Now THIS I gotta see! :p I have a major soft spot for silkies, they look like little fraggles, don't they? I've never had an Easter Egger, though. So I have no idea if they could ever be confused with an Ameraucana. Sorry I can't help much about your egg conundrum.
 
Amykins said:
Pyxis said:
She might have had some ee or Ameraucana in her background somewhere! There are even silkied ameraucanas, so you never know :)
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A silkied Americauna? Now THIS I gotta see! :p I have a major soft spot for silkies, they look like little fraggles, don't they? I've never had an Easter Egger, though. So I have no idea if they could  ever be confused with an Ameraucana. Sorry I can't help much about your egg conundrum.
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Check this out: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/827543/silkied-ameraucana-project I'm considering getting into them. Anyway, back on topic :p
 
Oh man...a silkie ameraucana mix that lays eggs like an Easter Egger. Surely there must be SOMEONE breeding this!
 
Pyxis said:
Ameraucanas lay only blue or green eggs, no browns or pinks or whites. What you probably have, and what you probably got in the mail, are eggs from Easter Eggers, which are mixes that can lay blue or green eggs but sometimes lay brown or pink. Pictures would help us determine what you have, but if it's not laying a blue or green egg, it isn't a true ameraucana
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So, whichever of them is laying the blue/green eggs is Ameraucana. They can't lay a different color egg if the rooster is another breed?

I posted pictures here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/899479/what-breed-are-my-chickens and I have been told that the 2 white ones are probably EE. I know one rooster is a Crested Polish but the other one hasn't been identified yet. He is posted on that thread too.

The rooster in my avatar is gone now but he was supposed to be an Ameraucana. If you can blow up the picture to get a good look at him, you will see he has a very mean look. Let me tell you, he lived up to that look. He used to flog me every time he got a chance.
 
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Amykins said:
I don't know about that, I once had a silkie that laid blue eggs. But she looked like a bona fide silkie so she was either a genetic anomaly or she was mixed and REALLY took after her mommy!

Granted, I doubt that all those eggs came from one hen. So you're probably right. I just like talking about my weird silkie hen, Muppet.
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Oh, no, I didn't mean to imply they all came from one hen, mine or Melissa's. I think she has a lot more chickens than I have but between my 3 ducks and chickens, I get 10 eggs a day. Usually, sometimes I don't find their eggs if they stay out all night, I always watch where I walk when I am in the yard. I try to pen them up at night and keep them penned until noon or 1pm to get them to lay their eggs in the henhouse. Then they are free to forage the yard.
 
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