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BarnGoddess01 said:
B/B/S are not necessarily famous for their spectacular bright blue eggs at this point. That is not to say some don't lay pretty nice blue eggs. I only work with B/B/S so I am going from memory but I believe I have heard that Wheatens are doing pretty well in the bright blue egg department. Hopefully, somebody else will chime in.

Then all you have to do is convince the producer of those fabulous blue egg laying chickens to sell you some!!!
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Any ideas on who I need to start harassing for those eggs? ;) I'd love Wheatens!
 
BarnGoddess01 said:
Are you a member of the Ameraucana Breeders Club? You might have better luck over there and posting on their forum. www.ameraucana.org

Give it a day or two here. I'm sure you'll get more responses ....
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I'm not a member. I'd be happy to join if I had quality birds but can't justify joining until I have something to work with. ;)

Thank you for all of your help.
 
doubleatraining said:
I'm not a member. I'd be happy to join if I had quality birds but can't justify joining until I have something to work with. ;)

Thank you for all of your help.
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I know what you are saying about the b/b/s/ eggs. Egg color has not been my main focus. Green is not the end of the world, IMO at least you know the blue gene is there. Everybody has there "thing" they want to approve upon, when I was looking for my first birds I looked for type. When you show a bird it really doesn't matter what color the egg is, they are not judging that. What they are looking at is the condition, type, color, etc. not the egg color. It is easier to start out with nice looking birds, the egg color will follow after. That was what I thought starting out??? If egg color is your only focus, I say go find some w/bw/sw, and you should be able to find nice looking birds with nice egg color. If you prefer b/b/s, and enjoy a challenge, stick with your b/b/s and improve, improve, improve.
 
Here's my eggs from probably mid-summer, BBS Ameraucanas Meredith line. Top row is from my blue hen, and bottom row is from my black hen who passed unexpectedly a few weeks later. It isn't the darkest BUT it is certainly not green! I didn't realize how lucky I was with the pair I had until I joined BYC and saw what there is out there.




Here's the pair in a photo from about 2 weeks ago:



I am really new to this, I would love to have feedback on this pair. I can maybe get better pictures. They are great natured but not particularly friendly; they don't really want handling. From my understanding they are between 1 1/2 and 2 years old. I have 3 blue chicks from them growing out, it looks like 2 boys and a girl to me. Nearly all of this hens chicks were dying at the end of incubation this fall and then she went into moult. I hope when she finally begins laying again whatever was going on will be resolved.
 

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