Breed & Gender

[Frazzemrat1]

Thank you. The hatchery calls them an "Americana" meaning they mixed an ameraucana and araucana. That's Hoovers Hatchery. Since you and the other person said "light brahma", once i searched the hatchery & it's pictures, it's 100% guaranteed light brahma lol. Picture perfect to the T. Would you guess if my tan easter egger is a boy or girl?

Nope, they don't mix Ameraucana and Araucana... There's no way. All the eggs would be blue, for one, with no green at all. Also, Araucana are very rare and expensive chickens. I don't think any hatchery would spend the money to mix and expensive rare breed with a more common breed. No, to get green eggs you have a blue egg layer (the ameraucana) and a brown egg layer, like an orpington.
Hatcheries actually breed their EE to each other and throw an ameraucana in every couple of generations to refresh the blue egg gene. No Araucana in your birds at all.

 

[AnneLovesChickens]

Nope, they don't mix Ameraucana and Araucana... There's no way. All the eggs would be blue, for one, with no green at all. Also, Araucana are very rare and expensive chickens. I don't think any hatchery would spend the money to mix and expensive rare breed with a more common breed. No, to get green eggs you have a blue egg layer (the ameraucana) and a brown egg layer, like an orpington.
Hatcheries actually breed their EE to each other and throw an ameraucana in every couple of generations to refresh the blue egg gene. No Araucana in your birds at all.

I don't doubt you at all! I'm new to chickens, so I hardly know anything. But that is what the hatchery told me and they also list it on their website:
https://hoovershatchery.com/Americana.html
Maybe you should write them and call them out on it lol. If you do, let me know what they say?

 

[Frazzemrat1]

I don't doubt you at all! I'm new to chickens, so I hardly know anything. But that is what the hatchery told me and they also list it on their website:
https://hoovershatchery.com/Americana.html
Maybe you should write them and call them out on it lol. If you do, let me know what they say?

Not really worth the time. You can argue with them till your blue in the face about the Ameraucana vs Americana vs Easter Egger deal and wont' get anywhere. I just know what it takes to breed araucana and know they wouldn't use them. LOL Araucana carry a deadly gene, and if a chick gets two copies of the gene it will die in the shell before its even hatched. They don't want to mess with that.

 

[AnneLovesChickens]

Not really worth the time. You can argue with them till your blue in the face about the Ameraucana vs Americana vs Easter Egger deal and wont' get anywhere. I just know what it takes to breed araucana and know they wouldn't use them. LOL Araucana carry a deadly gene, and if a chick gets two copies of the gene it will die in the shell before its even hatched. They don't want to mess with that.

Awww that's sad. Maybe they used 1 Araucana generations ago, and have been just breeding the EE mixes ever since, like you said? Hopefully not throwing away lots of little babies

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Awww that's sad. Maybe they used 1 Araucana generations ago, and have been just breeding the EE mixes ever since, like you said? Hopefully not throwing away lots of little babies

Well, its the tufted gene that does this. If one of the parents isn't tufted it won't be carrying the gene, so the babies wouldn't carry it.

 

[AnneLovesChickens]

Well, its the tufted gene that does this. If one of the parents isn't tufted it won't be carrying the gene, so the babies wouldn't carry it.

Very fascinating! Thank you for teaching me something new today

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

The buff pullet is a nankin bantam or a Japanese bantam. The only EE trait she has is the green legs.

 

[AnneLovesChickens]

The buff pullet is a nankin bantam or a Japanese bantam. The only EE trait she has is the green legs.

Now I’m new at this and completely still learning, but I got her and the others at tractor supply. They use Hoover’s Hatchery and sometimes Privett. I just searched their website looking for info on the breeds you mentioned and neither have nankin, and Hoover’s did have Japanese, but only in black & white. Is it still possible one of those 2 slipped through the cracks or still possible she’s an EE?

 

[Gray Farms]

The buff pullet is a nankin bantam or a Japanese bantam. The only EE trait she has is the green legs.

Leg color is wrong for Nankin & Japanese.

 

[micstrachan]

I agree on RIR and Light Brahma. No idea on the buff colored chick.