Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[TherryChicken]

I thought they went from your place to your BF's place? My mistake then.
Well, it could be anything others have said. Egg eating, heat, stress, protein or just plain not old enough yet. If it was one bird, I would wonder if it was an internal layer, but that's not likely with several birds. I'd ask the breeder you bought them from what was the average age his hens started laying. Mine generally start laying at seven to eight months.

they came here from my bfs place. I do not believe its internal laying, as they are acting just fine. Heat, maybe but if thats the case I will never get eggs from them, but they are given ice water, watermellon ect to help keep cool. It couldnt be protien or lack of neutriance as all my birds here are producing like champs. And they are very mature age and lay eggs.. just not wanting to.

 

[FVRM]

So I guess this will be my last post here.
What a monstrosity! False advertisement!
Where's the best place to research to know the difference visibly?

It's one of the most common mistakes made in backyard poultry keeping. If hatcheries and farm stores sold them as Easter eggers people would still buy them.

Easter eggers are still really cool birds. There are a few Easter egger threads around here.

 

[jajeanpierre]

It's one of the most common mistakes made in backyard poultry keeping. If hatcheries and farm stores sold them as Easter eggers people would still buy them.

Easter eggers are still really cool birds. There are a few Easter egger threads around here.

I agree--there is nothing wrong with Easter Eggers and if someone was serious about how they bred them, they really should be a better laying bird than a purebred Ameraucana.

I know no one wants to hear that they have a mixed breed when they thought they had a rare breed.

 

[Pinkaboo]

I agree--there is nothing wrong with Easter Eggers and if someone was serious about how they bred them, they really should be a better laying bird than a purebred Ameraucana.

I know no one wants to hear that they have a mixed breed when they thought they had a rare breed.

I really like the Easter eggers think they have lovely expressive faces but I can't find anything in the U.k, would they have a different name? When I seach for them all I get is ameraucana chicks

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

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I think they are called the same thing in the UK as they are here. If you can have roosters, just make your own.

 

[Pinkaboo]

I think they are called the same thing in the UK as they are here. If you can have roosters, just make your own. 

I don't understand how I can make them with a rooster? Are they just mixed breeds? So if my cuckoo maran roo mated with my cream legbar I'd have an Easter egger??

 

[FVRM]

I don't understand how I can make them with a rooster? Are they just mixed breeds? So if my cuckoo maran roo mated with my cream legbar I'd have an Easter egger??

Somewhat yes. Traditionally, Easter eggers come from ameracaunas bred with any other breed, but cream leg bars will also give you an Easter egger. In your case a maran with the cream legbar would create an olive egger.

 

[Pinkaboo]

Somewhat yes. Traditionally, Easter eggers come from ameracaunas bred with any other breed, but cream leg bars will also give you an Easter egger. In your case a maran with the cream legbar would create an olive egger.

Gosh
Can you not do any harm letting different breeds breed?
Mind you even same breeds breeding can cause problems like frizzle to frizzle
I wish my husband had just let me get a budgie like I wanted!
You know where you are with budgies ; )

 

[jerryse]

Somewhat yes. Traditionally, Easter eggers come from ameracaunas bred with any other breed, but cream leg bars will also give you an Easter egger. In your case a maran with the cream legbar would create an olive egger.

I don't understand how I can make them with a rooster? Are they just mixed breeds? So if my cuckoo maran roo mated with my cream legbar I'd have an Easter egger??

Well what do you have with a pea comb ? In the USA we went with the blue egg pea comb link . I am one of the original breeders that helped create the breed and get it accepted into the standard. EE are considered a mixed breed but they were around before Ameraucanas . Our club history says we created Ameraucana from Araucana but at that time anything that laid blue eggs was considered a Araucana . Many traits were borrowed from the hatchery birds . Araucana the Easter Egg chicken is how many were sold . True Araucana are rumples and tufted . Tufts are lethal in pure form and rumples have a fertility problem due to the fact that there is no tail to lift during mating . So we chose tails beards and pea combs . There were only 6 breeders at the APA qualifying meet . I was one of those breeders . We did this in a span of abut 10 years . Tell me what you have readily available to borrow from and I can help .

 

[tatinatimom]

I love my girls! they are really cool birds. it's more the principle. it's like having your children switched at birth.
Classic bait and switch on consumers! They should not be allowed to do that!