Ameraucana Roosters and Egg Color

[Brahma Chicken5000]

How can you tell they are EEs and not Ameraucanas?

Because feed stores don’t sell True Ameraucanas. True Ameraucanas go for $10-$20 for unsexed day old chicks.

 

[OneAndTwoOfFour]

One dollar Ameraucanas are likely Easter Eggers. True Ameraucanas are much more expensive generally, even cockerels.
That being said, I would guess you would get mint, green, olive and some brown eggs from the offspring.

The store’s Ameraucanas were $4.26 when they came in as day-old chicks. However, any that didn’t sell within that first week, the store would put them all together into a big bin and call them “frypan specials”. They had to make room for the new day-old chicks that were coming in to replace them. Any that didn’t sell they sold for either two dollars or one dollar. The older they got, the less money they would charge. We rescued three from the frypan.

 

[OneAndTwoOfFour]

Because feed stores don’t sell True Ameraucanas. True Ameraucanas go for $10-$20 for unsexed day old chicks.

We ordered some “Ameraucana” chicks from Murray McMurray Hatchery Back in September. Are these also considered Easter Eggers? We don’t mind ad we’re just a small farm and don’t show our chickens. We just love on them and try to give them an awesome life. But it’s nice to know.

 

[Trish1974]

In addition to what Brahma Chicken said, Ameraucanas are of specific color/varieties. Yours does not appear to fit any of the approved colors of Ameraucanas. Beautiful rooster none the less!

 

[OneAndTwoOfFour]

Thank you all so much! This is all so interesting!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

We ordered some “Ameraucana” chicks from Murray McMurray Hatchery Back in September. Are these also considered Easter Eggers? We don’t mind ad we’re just a small farm and don’t show our chickens. We just love on them and try to give them an awesome life. But it’s nice to know.

Yes they are Easter Eggers.

 

[lilmillefleur]

The only hatcheries that supply true Ameraucanas that I know of are Meyers and Cackle. My Pet Chicken gets their Ameraucanas from Meyers I believe.
And there are plenty of breeders that supply true Ameraucanas too.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Any idea where they get their chicks from?
We have an Orscheln here and they get theirs from Estes hatchery. Their frypan special is just a bunch of random male chicks.
Anyways few years ago I got like 25 "Ameraucana" pullet chicks and everyone of them layed blue eggs. The next year I got 20 from cackle and they all layed blue eggs.
Just because a hatchery is selling what everyone here labels as an EE doesn't automatically mean they won't be pure for blue egg genes.

 

[MHRE]

If they are true Ameraucanas and not Easter Eggers, crossing with the Leghorns should give light blue egg laying pullets and with the RIR likely green/olive eggs. If they are EE, all bets are off.

she did not ask about the pullets, she asked about the actual eggs from the first breeding...I have asked this same question all over the internet and get the same response about the chicks that hatch out will lay blue/green eggs...but the questions is the first breeding egg color