Recent content by pyronym

Thank you! I get it now. I was thinking about it like dogs a pure bred English style boxer mixed with a pure bred american style boxer is still a purebred boxer it just might have either English or American features. So in talking about the chickens(still new to thislol) if I mixed a black...

Ah I see so really it's more like a strain/race than a breed there's a black blue splash strain/race and the buff wheaten would be another strain/race. I was looking at it like they are both true ameraucanas but they'd be considered ees because if you crossed the mix back to either side you...

So crossing a black ameraucana with a buff Ameraucana the cross is considered an ee? Guess I'm confused.

So i'm researching for my first backyard flock. I'm hoping to have blue eggs so i've been looking for reputable ameraucana breeders(not hatcheries) that are somewhat local to me(Maryland). it seems that most breeders have either black, blue, splash OR they have buff, wheaten, etc... I'm...

Hello all! baltimore county here. hoping to finish fencing in my yard and get a coop built by mid july to start my own little backyard flock. I only have .9 acres so i'm hoping if i ply my neighbors with eggs they won't report me lol