Ameraucana + Rhode Island Red

[pertyjewely]

I have a male silver amerucauana Rooster and want to breed him with my astoulorps and RIR hens. What are the chances of getting silver EEs?

 

[FlomatonsFlocks]

Anyone with resulting photos?

 

[tracytrull]

I hatched 6 blue eggs from my 3 ameraucana hens x with a rir rooster = I got 3 pullets that have the muffs & beards and are colored like a rir with partial black or gray and red tail feathers. They are very pretty and sweet but, I thought that would get me olive eggs but they all lay brown eggs. The other 3 eggs turned out to be roosters that look like the standard EE roosters. I was told after I started incubating the eggs that you need a truely dark brown (Maran type) x with a blue egg layer to get a OE.

if a true ameraucana (not EE or Americana) you have a better chance of this if the sexes were reversed...blue egg male with brown egg female...will always be olive laying chicks