Hi! I'm expecting 8 straight run Ameraucanas (3 self-blue, 5 BBS) to arrive late next month. My hope is to keep one rooster and eventually use it to breed and hatch chicks for fun. Maybe I'll get into breeding to the SOP at some point, we'll see.
I have some questions (some silly ones, bear with me lol) about the whole process.
- Is there any reason why I couldn't just keep the rooster in with all of my hens? If I wanted to breed him with a specific hen to ensure the offspring is a purebred Ameraucana couldn't I just separate them for a few weeks? I don't have any other roosters.
- If I do keep him with all of my hens, is it safe to assume that all of the offspring would be Easter Eggers (aside from the Ameraucanas, obviously)? If I add Copper Marans hens, those offspring would all be Olive Eggers? I'd like to just hatch whatever gets laid and sell them as Easter Eggers, but I don't want to accidentally end up with a brown egg layer somehow.
- I was told by someone that I shouldn't assume that he's homozygous dominant for the blue egg gene, is that true?
- I have two bantams - a sebright and an OEG. Will they be OK with a rooster? I currently have 12 hens, one unsexed silkie, and probably ~4 Ameraucana hens depending on how the straight run turns out.
- I know it'd technically be an EE- what would a BBS x lavender Ameraucana cross look like?
- Would a BBS Ameraucana rooster x BBS Copper Maran produce BBS Olive Egger offspring? In other words, does the BBS translate between breeds?
- In the future, would an EE or OE bred with an Ameraucana always lay colored eggs?
Thanks!!
I have some questions (some silly ones, bear with me lol) about the whole process.
- Is there any reason why I couldn't just keep the rooster in with all of my hens? If I wanted to breed him with a specific hen to ensure the offspring is a purebred Ameraucana couldn't I just separate them for a few weeks? I don't have any other roosters.
- If I do keep him with all of my hens, is it safe to assume that all of the offspring would be Easter Eggers (aside from the Ameraucanas, obviously)? If I add Copper Marans hens, those offspring would all be Olive Eggers? I'd like to just hatch whatever gets laid and sell them as Easter Eggers, but I don't want to accidentally end up with a brown egg layer somehow.
- I was told by someone that I shouldn't assume that he's homozygous dominant for the blue egg gene, is that true?
- I have two bantams - a sebright and an OEG. Will they be OK with a rooster? I currently have 12 hens, one unsexed silkie, and probably ~4 Ameraucana hens depending on how the straight run turns out.
- I know it'd technically be an EE- what would a BBS x lavender Ameraucana cross look like?
- Would a BBS Ameraucana rooster x BBS Copper Maran produce BBS Olive Egger offspring? In other words, does the BBS translate between breeds?
- In the future, would an EE or OE bred with an Ameraucana always lay colored eggs?
Thanks!!
