Anyone ever cross an Easter Egger roo with Americauna hen?

[Backyardexplorer]

Hey everyone!

Just curious if anyone has ever crossed an Easter Egger rooster with an Americauna hen?

I’m new to chickens and am the proud new owner of 1 Easter Egger rooster, 2 Easter Egger Hens, 1 blue Americauna hen and 1 splash Americauna hen.

I would love to see pictures if anyone has an Easter Egger roo mixed with an Americauna! Or any other type of hen mixed with a EE! If female, what color eggs do they lay?

All my chickens are currently 6 weeks and younger. I am looking forward to trying my hand at hatching next spring!

 

[p4PaDuck]

Is the americauna spelt this way when you bought her? If so you will get Easter eggers. Hatcheries do this to get people to buy americaunas thinking they are ameruacanas which have beards and put blue eggs.

 

[Backyardexplorer]

Oops, this was my own spelling error! Chicks were purchased from someone local that breeds Ameraucanas.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Oops, this was my own spelling error! Chicks were purchased from someone local that breeds Ameraucanas.

ohhhh okay

 

[Ridgerunner]

I’m new to chickens and am the proud new owner of 1 Easter Egger rooster, 2 Easter Egger Hens,

An Easter Egger is not a breed so there are no standards. They are a type but we can't all agree on a definition of what an EE is. They can be any feather color or pattern, have any type of comb, and lay any color of egg. You see that all the time on this forum, people call a chicken an EE and expect it to tell us something about appearance or what color of eggs they lay. It really doesn't.

A true Ameraucana hen has two copies of the blue egg gene. She has to give one to all her offspring so any of her daughters will lay a blue or green egg. Whether the daughter lays blue or green will depend on whether or not the rooster contributes any brown eggshell genetics. A true Ameraucana should only lay a blue egg, not green. Green is blue combined with brown.

1 blue Americauna hen

Now I'm going to talk about the blue feather color gene which has no connection to the blue eggshell color gene. I've seen people get confused about that.

A Blue Ameraucana has black as a base for feather color. The Blue feather gene modifies that black to look sort of blue. So any chicken with one blue feather gene at that gene pair will have every feather that would otherwise be black show as blue. If you have a chicken that would otherwise be red with a black tail then the chicken would be red with a blue tail if it has this blue feather gene.

A true Blue Ameraucana will give all of her chicks a black feather gene. She will give half of her chicks a blue feather gene and the other half get a not-blue feather gene. The rooster will also contribute to color genetics. Since the father is an EE I have no idea what his feather color/pattern contributions will be. Since black is so dominant I'd expect the chicks to be mostly black or blue with most roosters but there are color/pattern genetics that could mess that up.

1 splash Americauna hen.

A true Splash Ameraucana is also base black but she had two copies of the blue feather gene so she will give all of her chicks a black feather gene and a blue feather gene. Again it depends on what the rooster contributes genetically. Based in the hen's genetics I'd expect solid blue chicks but I don't know what the rooster will contribute.

This may sound complicated but you are the one that chose which colors and genetics to work with. From the two Ameraucana I'd expect mostly blue with some black chicks but the only way to find out is to hatch them and see. Sounds like an adventure.