Auracana or ameracauna????

[krelm]

An Easter Egger is just any bird with blue or khaki eggs, which is the blue gene over a brown egg, and so yes the offspring from all of these except the Leghorn will be khaki eggs. The Leghorn should make blue eggs? I think... because the white egg is an egg with no color gene at all? If someone corrected me on this I would be grateful

 

[BrahmaCrazy]

Ok help me understand, if i mix say maran x auracana, would i get an easter egger or olive egger??

 

[HighStreetCoop]

Ok help me understand, if i mix say maran x auracana, would i get an easter egger or olive egger??

Maran brown x Auracana blue = olive eggs (the brown is like a film that is deposited over the blue shell during egg production).

 

[BrahmaCrazy]

Ok if marans x auracanas =olive eggers, do i understand correctly that easter eggers = auracanas x any of the above mentioned breeds except leghorns and marans??

 

[HighStreetCoop]

There are lots of discussions about this on the forum. This is a pretty good one:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-do-you-prefer-to-cross-your-ameraucanas-with

 

[BrahmaCrazy]

Thank you!!! reading now!!!

 

[enola]

Simply put - Easter Eggers can be a cross of any breed, as long as they lay a 'colored' egg. 'Colored' eggs are defined as any color but white or brown. Most Easter Eggers are descended from Araucanas. Ameraucanas and Cream Legbars have Araucana ancesters.

 

[BantamLover21]

They look like Australian/English type Auracanas to me, too.

 

[Wyandottes7]

They look like Australian/English type Auracanas to me, too.

Agreed.

 

[Michael OShay]

Thank you all for the responses!! Can I breed an Easter Egger from these birds?? I have Brahma, Wyandotte, Auatralorps, Orpingtons, Leghorns, Sussex?

You can breed an EE from all of them by crossing them with a blue egg laying breed such as an Ameraucana, Araucana, or Cream Legbar. If you cross them with an EE, the offspring may or may not be a colored egg laying EE. It depends on whether the EE parent gives its blue egg gene or its brown egg gene to the offspring.