Blue Egg Layers from University of Arkansas

[Manningjw]

Hey everyone!

Wondering how your blue UofA birds are laying. 4-5+ eggs per week by chance? I have been wanting to cross breed white leghorns to Ameraucanas for a while but still hovering around this thread hoping to see some egg production numbers

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[heritagehabitatfarms]

i dont have any but in talking to a couple ppl that do the problem is the weather... we have had a harder than normal winter/spring so nothing is laying very good... that being said they are still laying better than most of the other breeds... i think the real test will be how much they lay once it warms up and all the way threw fall...

Hey everyone!

Wondering how your blue UofA birds are laying. 4-5+ eggs per week by chance? I have been wanting to cross breed white leghorns to Ameraucanas for a while but still hovering around this thread hoping to see some egg production numbers

.

 

[draye]

Hey everyone!

Wondering how your blue UofA birds are laying. 4-5+ eggs per week by chance? I have been wanting to cross breed white leghorns to Ameraucanas for a while but still hovering around this thread hoping to see some egg production numbers

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You know you will have something different t han the Blue Egg Layers crossing with Ameraucana don't you?
The cross for the BLue Egg LAyers was an Araucana and Leghorn, not Ameraucana.
Just letting you know.

 

[Manningjw]

You know you will have something different t han the Blue Egg Layers crossing with Ameraucana don't you?
The cross for the BLue Egg LAyers was an Araucana and Leghorn, not Ameraucana.
Just letting you know.

Absolutely I know that. My end game is a high production blue egg laying chicken which it sounds like this breed has the same purpose so it would save me a few years of selective breeding to get the same goal if these chickens are the producers they should be.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

if you wanted to you could end up with the same bird... with this they used a tailed and tuff less Araucana so it might as well have been a cull for that breed... but also both the muffs and the tailless gene are incomplete dominant so if a bird has them it will show them... so by using a tailed and tuff less bird they new those genes where not present so it was simple... if u use Ameraucana u will have to contend with the beard and muffs... and they can hide and not visually show even if a bird has a gene for them... so if you where breeding for a beard and muff less bird (like the UofA birds) u would have allot of culls that showed up with beard and muffs for several generations... of course if you just wanted an egg layer and did not care about beard and muffs it would be no problem at all...

 

[15littlem]

Just thinking out loud here, but what happens when a green egger is crossed with a white egger (leghorn)?

 

[draye]

Just thinking out loud here, but what happens when a green egger is crossed with a white egger (leghorn)?

Another shade of green, could be a shade of blue (not likely).

 

[draye]

Hey everyone!

Wondering how your blue UofA birds are laying. 4-5+ eggs per week by chance? I have been wanting to cross breed white leghorns to Ameraucanas for a while but still hovering around this thread hoping to see some egg production numbers

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Check with DMRippy here on BYC. She has what she is calling Super Blue Egg Layers. She has crossed her Ameraucana roo to White Leghorns.

 

[ronott1]

Quote: Blue for egg shell is dominant over white. Brown is dominant for the coating on the egg shell. The eggs should all be green, unless the green egg laying parent also has a white recessive. The Leghon would have white recessive so even more of a chance of white. You would mostly get a green egg but you could rarely get a white, blue or even a brown layer.

That is why EEs can lay a lot of colors but mostly blue green.

 

[ronott1]

The Blue egg layers are going on thee weeks now: