Breeding an Amercauna rooster with a White Leghorn

[svchic]

What color and size will the eggs be if I mix an Amercauna rooster with a Leghorn hen? I am thinking about breeding them.

 

[Mahonri]

Don't know about the egg size, because every single one ended up being roos and they were all white.

Blue Wheaten Ameraucana Roo X Leghorn. They roos ended up bigger than their daddy, so I imagine had I got hens, I would have ended up with bigger eggs than the Ameraucanas produced.

 

[lvchicken]

I agree.

 

[svchic]

Thank you and I would think also about the hen's eggs being bigger than their mother's. I have heard that they will lay large colored eggs, but I do not know if that is true.

 

[Momo]

I don't know either, but I've heard that the hens will lay good sized pale blue eggs, somewhat paler than a full Ameraucana.

 

[lvchicken]

This is very good info to have.

 

[AnimalFriend<3]

I read somewhere that if you cross any color egg layer with a white egg layer the offspring will lay the same color as the colored egg layer because the color egged trait is dominant (Haha that was a confusing sentence.) I don't know for sure but I hope I helped.

 

[svchic]

You did help. Thank you.

 

[Illia]

If it is a true, purebred Ameraucana and not an Easter Egger. . . You should have a very nice Easter Egger with large blue eggs (not that much more pale than the original) and dominant white coloration over whatever the Ameraucana had.

 

[svchic]

Thanks SO much!!! That was great and extremely helpful!!!!!