Americana rooster

[MissLaura]

Are Americana roosters good for your flock? I'm almost positive we have one in the making. Tried to crow today LOL This will be our first time with roo's.

 

[All4Eggz]

I've found Easter Eggers (A.K.A. Americanas) to be fairly friendly.
How many hens do you have? Are roosters allowed in your area?

There are not many breeds that are known to be very aggressive or very friendly. An Americana roo could be just as sweet as a Barred Rock, Wyandotte, Sex-Link etc. roo, or vice versa.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

First, unless you misspelled, if you got what was called an Americana, then it is a hybrid called an Easter Egger. The purebred is Ameraucana, which typically you have to get from a breeder (very particular traits, only 8 recognized colors).

Having said that, there's nothing wrong with an Easter Egger rooster as long as he is a gentleman to people and his flock. You do NOT want to keep an aggressive rooster. While proper handling *can* improve *some* roosters, most behavior is genetic. Jerks are culled in my flock. You certainly don't want to breed that forward.

So, if he is a nice temperament, he should breed nice chicks. He *should* have 1 blue shell gene, which means placing him over brown laying hens will produce the possibility of 50% green/olive eggers and 50% whatever the brown tone of the hen is (diluted somewhat as I find brown dilutes rather quickly).

If you are wanting dual purpose, EE's typically have a middle weight carcass, which should not greatly improve or greatly reduce the carcass weight of the hen.

So, yes, he is a worthy candidate depending on your breeding goals.

LofMc

 

[fleurchickens]

My Easter Egger roosters were always people friendly but not friendly at all with other roosters they were also a bit rough on my hens but nothing extreme.

 

[MissLaura]

I've found Easter Eggers (A.K.A. Americanas) to be fairly friendly.
How many hens do you have? Are roosters allowed in your area?

There are not many breeds that are known to be very aggressive or very friendly. An Americana roo could be just as sweet as a Barred Rock, Wyandotte, Sex-Link etc. roo, or vice versa.

We have 26 hens so far, unless another roo develops. Yes, we are allowed to have them, we are out of town with no restrictions.

 

[MissLaura]

First, unless you misspelled, if you got what was called an Americana, then it is a hybrid called an Easter Egger. The purebred is Ameraucana, which typically you have to get from a breeder (very particular traits, only 8 recognized colors).

Having said that, there's nothing wrong with an Easter Egger rooster as long as he is a gentleman to people and his flock. You do NOT want to keep an aggressive rooster. While proper handling *can* improve *some* roosters, most behavior is genetic. Jerks are culled in my flock. You certainly don't want to breed that forward.

So, if he is a nice temperament, he should breed nice chicks. He *should* have 1 blue shell gene, which means placing him over brown laying hens will produce the possibility of 50% green/olive eggers and 50% whatever the brown tone of the hen is (diluted somewhat as I find brown dilutes rather quickly).

If you are wanting dual purpose, EE's typically have a middle weight carcass, which should not greatly improve or greatly reduce the carcass weight of the hen.

So, yes, he is a worthy candidate depending on your breeding goals.

LofMc

First, unless you misspelled, if you got what was called an Americana, then it is a hybrid called an Easter Egger. The purebred is Ameraucana, which typically you have to get from a breeder (very particular traits, only 8 recognized colors).

Having said that, there's nothing wrong with an Easter Egger rooster as long as he is a gentleman to people and his flock. You do NOT want to keep an aggressive rooster. While proper handling *can* improve *some* roosters, most behavior is genetic. Jerks are culled in my flock. You certainly don't want to breed that forward.

So, if he is a nice temperament, he should breed nice chicks. He *should* have 1 blue shell gene, which means placing him over brown laying hens will produce the possibility of 50% green/olive eggers and 50% whatever the brown tone of the hen is (diluted somewhat as I find brown dilutes rather quickly).

If you are wanting dual purpose, EE's typically have a middle weight carcass, which should not greatly improve or greatly reduce the carcass weight of the hen.

So, yes, he is a worthy candidate depending on your breeding goals.

LofMc

Thank you! As of right now we have just egg layers. Eventually we would like to have meat birds also.