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Thank you very much for posting that.

Your post states that eggs may be blue or green but the shells must be blue in the first paragraph. Then it goes on to discuss the Easter Egger, which we are trying to properly distinguish from the purebred AMs on the majority of AM threads on BYC for newcomers to either breed. (Although the EE...

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Which post are you referencing with penciling? Just curious. Thanks

The Ameraucana egg color chart has plenty of variations of greener eggs on it that are acceptable to the standard. A better frame of reference would be that the interior of the egg is blue, but it's not always a deciding factor as I believe blue eggs are a dominant trait. We all want bluer...

Wrong name, sorry.

I'm not an 'eggspert' but it's my understanding that for purebred stock, Ameraucanas and Cream Legbars are your bluest layers. Now some breeders select for egg color after perfecting their SOP , so you can find ads for bluer eggs from different lines of each breed. There is a cross, called a...

I am not a breeder but have been studying them a lot. They have great feathering quality for LAVs and you'll know more of their confirmation when they get a little older. They're both gorgeous!

Oh, man! I wish we'd known! We close on Tuesday!

Thanks DMRippy, Good info. I will stick with the blues. I have a homemade 'no crow' collar that muffles him quite a bit and he's happy. He stays in his coop till after 8 in the mornings and can't hear him at all then unless you're next to the coop. We also have a 1/2 acre yard and...

DMRippy, I have a blue cockerel who I think is very attractive, and a black pullet I'd like to breed and was thinking of adding a LAV this spring for a trio to get some blues and LAVs possibly. I am a newbie and understand they are different genes but thought the mix could be fun. Can you...