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  1. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Ameraucanas by definition never have green legs. Easter eggers or americanas which are mixed breeds often do though.
  2. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Ameraucanas come in specific colors - pics and list at ameraucana.org
  3. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I don't believe your pretty boy is an ameraucana but a mixed breed :-(
  4. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    FBCM are still on my wish list - ah, when there's more space :-)
  5. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    YVW! This is such a fun hobby with some beautiful benefits :-) Some of us are waiting for our welsummer pullets to grow up and try crossing them with our ameraucana roosters b/c wellie eggs are fairly dark and speckled! If you'd like an ameraucana roo, just let me know - I think I have half a...
  6. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Only half of all offspring are pullets at best and only half the pullets will carry the blue egg gene even from an F1 EE so 1/4 of an EEs offspring might produce colorful eggs :-) Mixed breeds are always a crap shoot...some great - others not so much. EEs created from one Ameraucana parent...
  7. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    At best an EE roo will supply a blue egg gene to half of his offspring which means about 1/4 will produce a colored egg. You prob want a purebred blue egg gene rooster.
  8. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    One of my blue ameraucanas also looked like a bird of prey for a while - light head and dark body :-)
  9. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    The yellow leg chick also looks to have his father's coloration?
  10. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

  11. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    If he has a pea comb, he prob carries a blue egg gene..otherwise, no. Mixing a mixed breed EE to yet another breed means you have a wild card unlikely to be worth keeping - just another brown egg gene rooster w/o the pea comb...even with it, only half his offspring will inherit the blue egg...
  12. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I think there are 2 of us who will be using ameraucana roos over welsummers here in Pa. next year. All the boys have great slate to black shank color and the hens are closely related. Theirs is black and I;m keeping both a blue and a splash :-) I have 2 more black cockerals going to the York...
  13. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Neat - thanks for sharing!
  14. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    You better keep those darn 3 chicks - I have to see what they turn out like!!!
  15. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Someone on the FB page just told me you get sex linked chicks when breeding a slate shanked ameraucana roo to a yellow legged welsummer hen. Pullet chicks will all have slate or willow green legs and cockerals will have yellow or white legs and gave a genetics reference...
  16. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I saw it - that's why I'm so anxious to see how the ones you keep grow :-) One of my black amerau boys just now left to be guardian of a little boy's first mixed flock (another leaves in the morning to the wel hens)...so glad he will be spoiled! I am hoping to keep a blue and maybe a splash...
  17. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    One of my black ameraucana cockerals is going off to his flock of welsummers tomorrow morning...can't wait to see his chicks! Would you please post photos of your blue wheaten x wel chicks...I'd love to see them!
  18. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    EEs are mixed breeds so you never know what you'll get. If the EE had one purebred Ameraucana parent, half of his offspring, on average, should get his one blue egg gene (which is closely linked to the pea comb). When you add to the equation that half his offspring will be male, approximately...
  19. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Diane88 - pea combs are notoriously hard to judge. Everyone with chicks from the breeder of my Ams says to hold onto them until at least 2 mos but I have heard most cockerals will turn red at about 6 weeks.Cute chick - good luck!
  20. hotlipshens

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Oh my, they're cute! The couple I bought my welsummers from said they'd like one of my ameraucana cockerals so I'm trading a black am roo for a wel pullet. My blue and splash are still quite young but am pretty sure I have some blue cockerals and might try one over my best wel next year...
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