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[featherhead007]

 

[MysteryChicken]

Meyer Hatchery actually sells Blue Ameraucanas, & Easter Eggers separately. It's actually spelled the correct way.
https://www.meyerhatchery.com/productlist.a5w?subcat=5121&cat=1020

 

[featherhead007]

It's Ameraucanas! any other is a wonderful Easter egger!

 

[featherhead007]

I can't buy more birds from Meyer, or Cackle... This CA. thing, but I buy from Belt hatchery in Fresno CA. great central Cal, trusted people there!

 

[chkncrazy]

If you're talking about the one with the huge tail feather that looks like a standard rooster would look like it's definitely a boy he he he

 

[featherhead007]

If you're talking about the one with the huge tail feather that looks like a standard rooster would look like it's definitely a boy he he he

Nothin wrong with roosters! I am one!

 

[chkncrazy]

Nothin wrong with roosters! I am one!

Me too

 

[featherhead007]

And I love my hens very much! all three of my girlfriends too!

 

[chrissynemetz]

I agree, I believe he's a beautiful Easter Egger!

 

[beth1004]

Agree 100% with others that he is a mixed Easter egger.

If you want a true Ameraucana, I agree with Mary to go to the Ameraucana Breeders Club website and familiarize yourself with the correct colors and shapes of a true Ameraucana.

Then you will need to track down a responsible breeder.

You absolutely won't find any true Ameraucana from a hatchery.

Why do you care? It is all about the genetics, baby. A true Ameraucana will have 2 blue genes to provide all offspring with a single blue shell gene which means 100% of the offspring (daughters) will lay bluish-greenish eggs, depending on who you breed that rooster over. (white shell girls will produce offspring for bluish eggs, brown shell girls will produce offspring for greenish eggs, dark brown shell girls will produce offspring for olive eggers). ALL offspring that are not 100% Ameraucana to Ameraucana are automatically Easter Eggers.

But that's only if you are trying to develop a serious olive egger or easter egger program. You can totally get there, just with a bit more effort, if you breed from an EE rooster. You have to assume that *hopefully* the EE rooster has a single blue gene (he may not if he is a hybrid of hybrids). You have to test breed him over the first generation to see if any of the daughters lay blue/green. THEN you go from there.

Line breeding back to the EE will secure your blue line IF you carefully select only blue-green layer daughters and breed back to the established EE rooster. In about 2 generations you can get back to double blue genes, but you will have some brown layers in between.

So THAT's why people want the true Ameraucanas. Because you know what's under the hood especially with a rooster without all the test breeding.

And that's why people mask EE's and Ameraucanas....it's all about the color blue.

Have fun with your rooster. Your girls honestly won't care one way or the other as long as he is sweet with them.

LofMc

WOW. I will have to read that a couple of times to understand it all. I don't have any white egg layers but I get blue eggs from our Ameraucanas and various shades of blue /green from my easter eggers. I was looking to be able to hatch eggs that people would want to buy the chicks.