Ameraucana Projects Thread

[cgmaster]

it is usually a good idea to wait until the eggs from a pullet get bigger that way there aren't any problems with the egg not being big enough for the chick.

I'm not sure how much bigger they can get lol, they are already the second largest eggs in my whole flock , just behind my 2 year old blue wheaten am hen actually

 

[chicklover 1998]

Well if they are that big then I'd incubate them, pullet eggs are usually fairly small so that's why it isn't advised, but if they are large now then i'd say they were ok to use.

 

[cgmaster]

Well if they are that big then I'd incubate them, pullet eggs are usually fairly small so that's why it isn't advised, but if they are large now then i'd say they were ok to use.

It would be soo cool if they increased in size though! I will keep you updated on the eggs progress

 

[chicklover 1998]

Awesome you do that, and all pullets/hens will increase their egg size until about their second year of laying.

 

[cgmaster]

Awesome you do that, and all pullets/hens will increase their egg size until about their second year of laying.

todays egg weighed 50 grams, thats on the low end of the medium range

 

[chicklover 1998]

That is still rather large even for pullet eggs even if she just started I wish mine were bigger I have 3 RIR and two lay just under small but not quite peewee and my 3rd one lays nearly a large all have been laying since september, wish the other two would keep up with arrow my bigger egg layer, I also have an ameraucana so it links to the thread but she is far from every laying even a medium hers are always dainty little peewees and I know once they start laying they typically start laying they stay the same color but she changes color within the ameraucana spectrum I find it odd.

 

[cgmaster]

That is still rather large even for pullet eggs even if she just started I wish mine were bigger I have 3 RIR and two lay just under small but not quite peewee and my 3rd one lays nearly a large all have been laying since september, wish the other two would keep up with arrow my bigger egg layer, I also have an ameraucana so it links to the thread but she is far from every laying even a medium hers are always dainty little peewees and I know once they start laying they typically start laying they stay the same color but she changes color within the ameraucana spectrum I find it odd.

that is interesting.
now i have two broodies lol

 

[carolinasculpture]

Hi! I have just finished reading this thread...took me 4 days...I am interested in the genetics, but have no pure bred any things. Here is my rooster...
I don't know anything about him except that he is supposed to be an EE, was given to us last spring, don't even know how old he is. While we were away last summer we had our hatchery black australorp go broody and hatch out 6 eggs. Never saw 2 of the chicks, snake got them right away. The four that were left, 2 are black and lay green/olive eggs, the other 2 met the same fate with the snake. One was slightly lighter than black and the other was silverfish with a reddish spot on his back. So, our daughter,12, studied a bit of genetics in school and wants to hatch out some eggs from our white leghorn to see if she can get blue eggs, our black sex-linked because she is so friendly and a brownish EE hen. All are hatchery.
So, my questions, any ideas what we might get and, since we only have the one rooster, what would be the issues if we then hatched eggs from the ones we plan to hatch this spring. Obviously not going for any show stuff or anything, more concerned about health issues. Appreciate any advise, thanks!

 

[Saris]

Is anyone working on a chocolate wheaten? I think that would be super pretty.....

 

[tao chick]

Is anyone working on a chocolate wheaten? I think that would be super pretty.....

It would. I'm considering working on a Cream Wheaten, considering my "Wheaten" isn't. His hatch mate sister lays olive eggs and his brother looks like a standard wheaten. They all hatched from blue eggs, but until I test this guy I won't know what egg color he'll pass on.