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You're right. Pretty much anyone could make a similar bird to these blue egg layers. Its just a lot selection after the first cross is made for a deeper shade of blue eggs.

These birds were crossed using parent stock of commercial layers. What is available at the hatcheries are the "hybrid" cross. which is usually nothing more than a cross between two inbred lines.

The Brown Leghorn Line the University still has are all SC birds and all lay blue eggs. Once the blue egg gene is introduced comb type has no relevance. The only reason I say rumpless Aracauna is so that you know they are pure, but you're right a tailed bird might be cheaper.

Hatchery stock will not work. You will need to find True Rumpless Aracauna. Tufts will not matter, the crossing you will do will most likely eliminate them. A lot of the time pure Aracaunas will throw tuftless offspring, I wouldnt worry if the particular bird you use if tufted or not as long as...

I would try a true Aracauna on a leghorn. If you want blue egg shells DO NOT cross with a brown egg breed because you will get offspring that lay green eggs and not blue. You could create a similar bird to these Arkansas blue egg layers by crossing a black Aracauna on some commercial white Leghorns.

We still give eggs out from various other breeds at the University. The blue feathered blue egg layers are gone, but the light browns are still being worked with, however they are not ready to be released yet. Anyone is welcome to get eggs, the University just does not ship them.

Jacob Bates has some very good SC Light brown Leghorns, large and bantam. He is from Charelston.

I would just like to reiterate to everyone on this thread that no eggs will be given away from the Light Brown Leghorns. No eggs will be given out from the Light Brown blue egg layers either. They still need a lot of work and are not close to being ready for public distribution. Thank you.

As far as I know no work has been done on the metabolic cost of producing blue eggs.I would not think it would take more energy or nutrients to produce a colored egg shell as a white egg shell. There is a nutrient that gives the pigment to the shell. I do not know what nutrient(s) it is or how...

Just a question, if you did try and get this new breed recognized, what class would it be in? American or AOSB?

does ring a bell doesn't it...... When we had them they seemed to do fine with each other, and not damage each other. Especially if these were in a backyard flock with more room to get away from each other i don't think you would have any problems

all i meant was that you have seen eye infections in your flock of birds. and yes they act more like leghorns than anything else

Ok you do raise a good point, some people may not like the "frills" as you call it, but then many people do like the look of ear tufts or beards. I was just trying to make a suggestion for people that wanted a recognized breed that they can show that lays a blue egg. We have a flock of...

I see what you mean, but by crossing with these AR blues, you can increase egg production in the Ameraucana or Aracaunana. There really is no reason why a blue egg strain of Ameraucana or Aracauna could not be a high producing strain if due consideration is given to egg production qualities...

Just a thought here. If someone wanted a bird that lays a blue egg only, which seems to be the case, why not breed a line of pure Ameraucanas that lays a blue egg? The standard does say under the economic qualities that ". . . [the egggs] having a distictive blue coloration"( Standard of...

Yes, when you look at it from a production point of view, a bird that lays blue eggs, and really is only a backyard layer. But they look very different from Easter Eggers sold by hatcheries. and unlike Easter Eggers these birds only lay a BLUE egg. Easter Eggers as you know lay green eggs and...

Ok true, many breeds were originally a production bird first then admitted to the APA second. I just wanted to say that it was no goal of the creator or of anyone at the U of A, to one day have this breed be recognized. I also do not think that these birds will disappear if they are not...

Hi, I am a student of Dr. Bramwell, and I have been around these birds some. I believe that these birds are strictly a utility backyard type of bird that lays a blue egg. They were originally created by a friend of Dr. Bramwell's as just a side project for the fun of it, rather than developed...