It appears in one image that the roosters are not completely dominant for pea comb.
This happened in the early stages of creating lavender ameraucanas, and all of those birds needed to be culled.
Also- assuming that these hens will produce 300+ eggs a year because they were bred using...
Some ameraucana breeders have a lacing project going on using andalusians. This will likely result in better productivity. I have no complaints about production except in the wheaten variety. The lavenders and blacks lay practically every day.
Sometimes healthy long-lived birds are more...
I have BBS EEs that lay extremely well. I made them with Andalusians and Ameraucanas. They breed as true as any BBS breed when bred to each other. They are Easter Eggers.
Hasn''t anybody every heard of the color "Black" ? Well- most times when you breed 2 black birds together.....wait for...
You can get easter eggers to breed true. I have for a few years without even trying. And blue "as in blue andalusian" throws blacks and splashes. It does not give all blues.
I gave away well over 100 dozen eggs last year. Plenty of chicks as well. I wouldn't encourage a kid to start showing, and stress the importance of the SOP while giving them mutts.
That's counter-productive. .
And I know how much I still owe in student loans- a universty can certainly afford...
Sorry, but I wouldn't buy eggs from birds that lived in conditions like that. I would be embarrassed to even post those pictures. JMO.
Also- why would you encourage 4H kids to show production hybrids anyway?
Poor kids don't deserve pure bred birds?
Yeah- those pictures are Ameraucanas, and the eggs are from Gabbard Farms blue ameraucanas. Who said anything about non-SOP leghorns?
So basically, U of A doesn;'t known the difference between ameraucanas and araucanas, and they are working on a blue egg layer for commercial egg farms?
Just...
One of my chicken friends in TN has been making blue EEs crossing BBS ameraucana with leghorns for years. Even the single combed birds lay blue eggs.They're super productive. Its pretty common knowledge about these kind of hybrids, so I am surprised that a university would actually spend time on...