Last year I got some supposedly lavender Ameraucana hatching eggs. I was told that some of them could be black split to lavender. However, what I ended up with were 4 lavenders, 3 blues, 3 blacks, and a splash. My suspicion is that the seller's black rooster must have actually been black split...
He's an easter egger. Hatched from a brown egg, so RIR, Barred Rock, or Columbian Rock mother. Father is an Ameraucana (blue or lavender). Could he be birchen? Is that possible from one of those crosses?
I hatched some eggs this year that I got from a lady who is breeding Lavender Ameraucanas. They are very cute and doing well. But I'm quite confused about the colours. I believe they should be either Lavender or Black only. But I have a couple that I think(?) look blue, not lavender. Don't blues...
I've had hatchery layers (Barred Rocks, Columbian Rocks, RIR) for quite a few years. But this year I bought lavender and black Ameraucana hatching eggs. And they just hatched yesterday. This is the first time I've hatched myself, so I'm quite excited and wanted to show off pictures. There are 11...
Someone dropped these chicks off to me as day olds. I'm not quite sure where they came from, but the story was that they bought eggs that started hatching unexpectedly. The whole story was odd, and I heard it secondhand from the person who delivered them to me. So I really have no idea how any...