Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[ChocolateMouse]

Ugh. I think I have been a bit had. While the colors on there birds are technically correct, and have nice muffs, I think these are some early wheaten crosses. My hens just started laying. One has layed a green egg, VERY obviously green, but I could tolerate that.
But one of the hens has just started laying brown eggs. There's no possible way for it to to have come from ANY other hen. Since the roosters came from the same hatch I have no way of knowing if they even have a single copy of the blue egg gene without spending months breeding them back to a brown egg hen each, waiting for the offspring to lay, and then seeing what colors the hens lay.
This is incredibly frustrating given the rest of the experience as well, shipping the eggs into a snowstorm with notice so only half lived, the yellowy pale legs, the whole bit. Given that these were advertised as pure wheaten I'm pretty displeased that it doesn't even check the blue eggs box.
What would you all do in this scenario?

 

[Alaskan]

Hello all-I hope I have the right thread. This chicken has been a mystery to myself and the breeder since we got her/him. She acts very roo-ish, does a lot of chasing and is very bold. I posted quite a few pics on a different forum here wondering if she was pullet or cockerel because our ordinance only allows 4 hens so I need to know asap. As of last week, all on here said pullet. But she has changed since then and now the breeder is thinking roo, possibly. Here are updated pics of her from today. Please lmk what you think! ETA: She is about 14 weeks.

The comb color makes me think male... but I would not say for sure until male feathers show up. I see no male feathers.

 

[BantyChooks]

Unfortunately, all the birds I hatched from my Silvers this year are culls. The one cockerel had a recessive red from whoever his mum was, and the pullets are sickly. I lost the cock to heat stroke too, so I'm going to need to track down new stock next spring. Hurrah.

 

[Alaskan]

Ugh. I think I have been a bit had. While the colors on there birds are technically correct, and have nice muffs, I think these are some early wheaten crosses. My hens just started laying. One has layed a green egg, VERY obviously green, but I could tolerate that.
But one of the hens has just started laying brown eggs. There's no possible way for it to to have come from ANY other hen. Since the roosters came from the same hatch I have no way of knowing if they even have a single copy of the blue egg gene without spending months breeding them back to a brown egg hen each, waiting for the offspring to lay, and then seeing what colors the hens lay.
This is incredibly frustrating given the rest of the experience as well, shipping the eggs into a snowstorm with notice so only half lived, the yellowy pale legs, the whole bit. Given that these were advertised as pure wheaten I'm pretty displeased that it doesn't even check the blue eggs box.
What would you all do in this scenario?

I would first cage the suspect pullet and wait for her to lay. Just to make sure she truly is where the brown egg came from.

Then I would calmly and politely ask if maybe eggs had gotten mixed up, or a male had jumped a fence within 6 weeks of when the eggs were collected..... because of the brown egg, the green egg, the super bad leg color... etc.

And ask for replacement or refund.

 

[Alaskan]

Unfortunately, all the birds I hatched from my Silvers this year are culls. The one cockerel had a recessive red from whoever his mum was, and the pullets are sickly. I lost the cock to heat stroke too, so I'm going to need to track down new stock next spring. Hurrah.

Wow, bites. Sorry

 

[BantyChooks]

Wow, bites. Sorry

I'm not sure who the red carrier is, as I had a breeding group of 3 hens this spring, or I'd cull her too while I was at it. That'll teach me to not single mate like I knew I should.

It's ridiculously hard to track down Silvers... I'm a little suprised they aren't aren't more popular variety, seeing as they're so beautiful.

 

[Alaskan]

I'm not sure who the red carrier is, as I had a breeding group of 3 hens this spring, or I'd cull her too while I was at it. That'll teach me to not single mate like I knew I should.

It's ridiculously hard to track down Silvers... I'm a little suprised they aren't aren't more popular variety, seeing as they're so beautiful.

Yep... There was such a fad for the BBS, they are still most popular.

I like Wheaten best... just sold my shiny expensive Black standards for a song. I just needed to reduce breeds, and they were my least favorite.

 

[BantyChooks]

Yep... There was such a fad for the BBS, they are still most popular.

I like Wheaten best... just sold my shiny expensive Black standards for a song. I just needed to reduce breeds, and they were my least favorite.

I almost got the BBS because stock for that variety is so easy to source, but I don't like the random colours.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Like I said, there's already no possible way for this egg to have come from another bird. A raccoon came through and broke my coop latch and ate all of my adult birds early this year. I only have these 5 (2 boys 3 girls) and a bunch of wee chicks that haven't even finished feathering out.
I will send out an email. I wanted to know if other folks would tolerate or expect getting brown laying ameraucanas. Sounds like not. Thanks for the advice.

These are the eggs that were layed. Super disappointing.

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[bruceha2000]

I wanted to know if other folks would tolerate or expect getting brown laying ameraucanas. Sounds like not. Thanks for the advice.

I wouldn't. For that you can get "Ameraucana" from any number of big commercial hatcheries and have a chance at blue eggs. Someone claiming they sell pure/true Ameraucana shouldn't be selling EEs.