Amerucana or EE

If you had a EE hen that started laying brown eggs, could one of it's offspring get the blue/green capabilities?

I don't know a lot about this type of chicken, but I've heard that Amerucana's (pure) are extremely rare?
 
I have a Buff and EE mix and I got my first olive egg yesterday! So I would say that holds true for olive eggs.
 
I have a silver single/pea cross combed EE pullet that lays blue eggs with white speckles.
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But I do think that once they lose the muffs, beard, pea comb, etc, you can't really call them EE's anymore. That roo looks like he may be an EE, but since he doesn't have a pea comb, I would just call him a barnyard cross.
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But since most EE's already lay lighter green eggs, not blue, it's a crapshoot if you use EE's to try and get olive eggers. You will get some olive eggers, but you will also get some plain brown egg layers since the EE carries both the blue and the brown gene already. My ee that lays blue eggs obviously has a blue gene, but I think she also has a white egg gene, not a brown or another blue. If you want to guarantee olive eggs, you have to cross a true Ameraucana or Araucana with a dark brown layer, like a marans.
 
there is an EE in there somewhere, just maybe a generation or so back.
 
I have a Buff and EE mix and I got my first olive egg yesterday! So I would say that holds true for olive eggs.

I just wanted to make a correction that the hen I mentioned above is actually laying blue eggs. I am getting the olive egg from a hen without a pea comb!
 
You people have to realize that since easter eggers aren't considered a breed they are many different opinions on what is considered an easter egger. Some people think that a chicken that is very "mutty" is an easter egger. I consider an easter egger to be a mutt but at least closely related to an ameraucana. Also i think it has to have muffs to be considered an easter egger. This is just my opinion though. The chicken in the pic has muffs so it could be a descendant of an ameraucana. If it carries a blue egg gene or not i still think it is an easter egger. It definitely is not an ameraucana because of that comb. Some easter eggers that are closely related to ameraucanas do have the pea comb (not the comb in the pic). So the chicken in the above pic is definitely an easter egger but not an ameraucana.
 

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