2 Easter Eggers - what breeds were the parents?
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They both have Legbar in them!
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X2, cream legbar mixes
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No. They could be mixed with a variety of breeds that lay brown eggs.
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Yes. Or New Hampshire red, speckled sussex, red sex link, etc. It’s hard to narrow down exactly what went into a cross, especially if the cross is multigenerational (which I’m guessing is the case here).
Most Easter Eggers have a mother and a father who are Easter Eggers. The hatcheries have been breeding Easter Eggers for years. So yours are probably not a simple mix of pure breeds.
Many Easter Eggers look like wanna-be Ameraucanas, but yours do not.
The combs on yours look a lot like the combs on Cream Legbars, so they might have Legbar somewhere in their ancestry.
To lay blue or green eggs, most Easter Eggers trace back to Araucanas, Ameraucanas, or Cream Legbars (all of which lay blue eggs.) But any purebred ancestors might be many generations ago.
No. They’d have muffs if they were Ameraucana mixes.
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