Ameraucanas vs Easter Eggers.

[Egg Snatcher]

Not all Easter Eggers lay blue eggs. They are mixes so some will lay other colors like brown.


They may all lay blue eggs. You never know.

yes this ir true

 

[FrostRanger]

Ameraucanas are NOT the same thing as easter eggers. Ameraucanas are a purebred breed of chicken recognized by poulrty organizations with their own standard of perfection and everything. They also lay only blue eggs. Easter eggers are any mix that lays colored eggs. They can be ameraucana mixes or not. They can lay blue, green or pink eggs, however, each hen will only lay one color throughout her life. No chicken lays a different colored egg everyday. Many places unfortunately mislabel their easter eggers as ameraucanas

 

[StinkyAcres]

I bought four ameraucana chicks thinking they would lay different colored eggs every day.

Just to clarify, a single chicken will only lay one color of egg.

 

[jnicholes]

No problem! How many did you get? You might get a lot of cool colors!

13. Originally ordered eight, but they included five extra. As far as I know, four of them are the one I bought in the link.

Just to clarify, a single chicken will only lay one color of egg.

Yeah, I just read that on another source. I guess I was mistaken.

 

[ShrekDawg]

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13. Originally ordered eight, but they included five extra. As far as I know, four of them are the one I bought in the link.



Yeah, I just read that on another source. I guess I was mistaken.

They’re so cute!!!

 

[paintedChix]

I LOVE chicks!! Do you have additional pics of them yet?



This, in the description, tells you that your chicks are not Ameraucana.

One thing i can tell you, is your EE female chicks generally lay a lot sooner than purebred Ameraucana. Over a brief few years, from different breeder lines, both my BBS & Self Blue girls took 9 months to start laying. 1st Blue purebreds hatched in may/june 2014 started laying in March 2015. I wasn't breeding then. My new stock - BBS & Self Blue, hatched in Mar/Apr 2018 (from several different breeders) started laying in Jan 2019, becoming consistent in March - a full year after hatch. I'm not sure what breeders have gotten POL to now. My last birds were sold, gifted or processed in early 2021 before being out of state for almost 4 months.

I just ordered BBS Ameraucana LF to arrive in March (10) & April (10) from a breeder. Hope to get some more after that... we'll see. Chicks are EXCITING.

To learn more about the Ameraucana breeders, the original Ameraucana Breeders group split into two groups. They are both accepted in APA & ABA & are in both SOP groups as showable birds. Self Blue (Lavender) is the most recently accepted color.

They are working towards acceptance of Splash in the SOP. Splash is part of the color grouping when breeding for Blue birds. Often, the color grouping is called BBS or Black, Blue, Splash & from most breeders you would get all 3 colors, straight run. Some breeders now keep just Splash in a breeding pens (100% Splash). Others will keep a black roo over a group Splash hens or a Splash roo over black hens - either way is 100% Blue. However, the Blue birds, mated together will not produce 100% Blue birds.



To learn more about Ameraucana -

https://www.ameraucana.org/

http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/default.html