Ameraucana-Barred rock mix.

[junebuggena]

Then he's probably an Easter Egger, not pure Ameraucana. You can't be sure he has the blue egg gene to pass on. If he has a blue egg gene plus a brown egg gene, the odds are that only a few of his female offspring will lay green eggs. He would work better than a Wheaten Ameraucana for sexlink chicks, but you won't be guaranteed colored eggs.

 

[Bigwig]

Then he's probably an Easter Egger, not pure Ameraucana. You can't be sure he has the blue egg gene to pass on. If he has a blue egg gene plus a brown egg gene, the odds are that only a few of his female offspring will lay green eggs. He would work better than a Wheaten Ameraucana for sexlink chicks, but you won't be guaranteed colored eggs.

Last year I breed him with an RIR-Columbian rock mix and the resulting chick (when grown up) was buff-colored and blue and laid green eggs.

 

[Michael OShay]

I got him from a hatchery.

Last year I breed him with an RIR-Columbian rock mix and the resulting chick (when grown up) was buff-colored and blue and laid green eggs.

I hate to disappoint you, but if he came from a hatchery, he's an Easter Egger, not a pure Ameraucana. The fact that his offspring laid blue and green eggs simply means that as an EE he passed his blue egg gene to the offspring.

 

[Eliza1313]

There are a couple of hatcheries that sell both EEs and Ameraucanas. So I would say it is possible to get an Ameraucana from one of those hatcheries, but it would depend on how scrupulous they are as to whether you are actually getting an Ameraucana or an EE. If the hatchery does not list both I would lean towards him being a EE.

 

[junebuggena]

The hatcheries that sell pure Ameraucana always specify what color they are, and they charge a lot more for them than the average chicks. They usually cost at least $15 per chick. If you bought an Ameraucana of unspecified color, and paid under $5, it's an Easter Egger.

 

[Michael OShay]

The hatcheries that sell pure Ameraucana always specify what color they are, and they charge a lot more for them than the average chicks. They usually cost at least $15 per chick. If you bought an Ameraucana of unspecified color, and paid under $5, it's an Easter Egger.

X2 on that. The only major hatchery that I know of that sells pure Ameraucanas is Meyer Hatchery which sales Blue Ameraucanas, and they charge five times as much for them as they do their Easter Eggers.

 

[Bigwig]

Thanks!!

 

[Michael OShay]

Thanks!!

You're welcome.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

X2 on that. The only major hatchery that I know of that sells pure Ameraucanas is Meyer Hatchery which sales Blue Ameraucanas, and they charge five times as much for them as they do their Easter Eggers.

Just a note that Cackle Hatchery also sells pure Ameraucanas in lavender, buff, black, blue, splash, and white, and they sell EEs and olive eggers also, but as mentioned the price for Ameraucanas is quite a bit more than for EEs

 

[cabirdman]

X2 on all three of the above posts. With a white or very light colored rooster, the chicks would still be Black Sex Links, but you would not be able to see the white spot and sex them as chicks. However, when the feathers came in, the cockerels would be barred.

I have a rooster and hen, brother and sister. Their father was Americana and the mom was bard rock. They both look predominately bard rock, but you can see the americana lighter under feathers.