Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[doubleatraining]

I was going to check with my egg chart I go to to get how many eggs and size info, but they are talking about EE

So there is a egg size limit on a pure breed? If you were to show the hen and she laid an egg that wasn't blue or was too big it would be a DQ?

I'm not going to be showing anytime soon but I'd like to have correct birds for future showing/breeding.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Unless the judge actually sees the egg come out of your bird, the judge has no way of knowing what colour of egg your bird lays, let alone size, so that will very likely never be a DQ.

 

[doubleatraining]

Unless the judge actually sees the egg come out of your bird, the judge has no way of knowing what colour of egg your bird lays, let alone size, so that will very likely never be a DQ.

So you could technically show an EE that had the correct body color but wrong egg color as an AM?

 

[DMRippy]

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I can't tell for sure from the picture, but the leg color looks off, kinda yellow/green. That will be your give away on your birds what color are the bottom of their feet?

There is no limit on egg size but there is an Average size egg for a breed and a production amount. Like a leghorn, you expect BIG eggs and A LOT of them from that breed.... Ameraucanas are at the other end of the spectrum. Not a ton of eggs and they are smaller.

YES I am sure it has been done. My EE don't have yellow legs and some could have passed for Ameraucanas but that would not be morally correct...... NOT looking to rehash that REALLY

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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If you had an EE that truly has the phenotype (plumage, comb, leg colour, etc.) of an Ameraucana, you very likely could pass it off as one at a show even if it layed the wrong colour egg. But why would you want to? It isn't like there is huge prize money at any of these events. Seems to me for most folks showing, they like to think they are on the right track producing an SOP bird that they will be able to reproduce down the road. But maybe that's just naive, Canadian me ....

 

[doubleatraining]

If you had an EE that truly has the phenotype (plumage, comb, leg colour, etc.) of an Ameraucana, you very likely could pass it off as one at a show even if it layed the wrong colour egg. But why would you want to? It isn't like there is huge prize money at any of these events. Seems to me for most folks showing, they like to think they are on the right track producing an SOP bird that they will be able to reproduce down the road. But maybe that's just naive, Canadian me ....

I can't tell for sure from the picture, but the leg color looks off, kinda yellow/green. That will be your give away on your birds what color are the bottom of their feet?

There is no limit on egg size but there is an Average size egg for a breed and a production amount. Like a leghorn, you expect BIG eggs and A LOT of them from that breed.... Ameraucanas are at the other end of the spectrum. Not a ton of eggs and they are smaller.

YES I am sure it has been done. My EE don't have yellow legs and some could have passed for Ameraucanas but that would not be morally correct...... NOT looking to rehash that REALLY

WAIT WAIT, I have NO interest in cheating!!!! I was merely trying to understand the rules and breed guidelines. Please don't think that I would try to sneak something past the judges.

The leg color on them is a slate/dark green. I wasn't aiming at them when I took the pictures....I was trying to get pictures of my crazy as a marsh hare marans for the BYC marans pros to critique.

Here is a better picture of the smaller one's leg color. (please ignore my not so copper BCM hen in the front. LOL)

 

[doubleatraining]

I can't tell for sure from the picture, but the leg color looks off, kinda yellow/green. That will be your give away on your birds what color are the bottom of their feet?

There is no limit on egg size but there is an Average size egg for a breed and a production amount. Like a leghorn, you expect BIG eggs and A LOT of them from that breed.... Ameraucanas are at the other end of the spectrum. Not a ton of eggs and they are smaller.

YES I am sure it has been done. My EE don't have yellow legs and some could have passed for Ameraucanas but that would not be morally correct...... NOT looking to rehash that REALLY

CRAP! Of course I'd have to like a breed that will join the rest of my free-loaders. LOL

 

[DMRippy]

I didn't think you were going to cheat.... I knew you were just asking a general question. If their legs are GREEN they are NOT Ameraucanas they are EE Sorry. The legs should really kinda look like the Marans Slate with WHITE skin.

Also this is JMHO but I would not relegate a greener egg to the EE pen, you can work on egg color if your bird has nice type. Like the discussion before, blues can be in all shades and I don't think the SOP tells us what SHADE of Blue they should lay. Also a Judge chimed in on that subject and said he is not going to sit around and wait for them to lay an egg so they can be DQ'd it might happen IF THE BIRD LAYS AN EGG WHILE BEING JUDGED but I doubt that happens very often.

 

[doubleatraining]

Ok so first thing to do is get better pictures of their legs....then decide if they go to the EE pen or go to the AM improvement pen when I get a rooster for them....LOL I'm good with the bluer egg but I'd have to have a rooster from a super bright egg to compete with the greener egg.

Thank you for all of your help. Now to see if anyone has commented on up my marans....lol They are far from SOP I'm sure but I really like them and I'd like to know where to start with them too.

 

[Reyvaughn]

Do you have a waiting list? I'd love to get some eggs from you, whenever you have some. I am very close to the PA border, so hopefully you're within driving distance. 

This year will be different than last year. I am putting my rooster over his own daughters and I want to hatch a few out before I start selling any. So far, I have come to the conclusion that my BW/Ws like to lay between 65-70 degrees, no wind or snow but rain is fine. That doesn't give me many eggs. Seriously. I only had 5 hens last year and I doubled my numbers this year. Again, father over daughters... I am not sure how many generations before I got them since they seen new blood. As long as everyone is normal (no extra legs, wings or heads - extra butts on the girls is okay - hahaaa), I usually advertise them for sale in the Crazy 24hr Auction thread.