- Mar 16, 2014
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I purchased a pair of pure blue wheaton ameraucauna hens at an auction a few months ago and paired them with my EE rooster in hopes of the offspring being high quality easter eggers. I kept them in a breeding pen together for about a month before the hens started to lay. about twice a week i let them out in the yard to free range eith the rest of my flock. They always returned to their pen with my EE rooster at night. I would then shut them in for several days.
I collected eggs for 2 weeks and began to incubate them.
fast forward 21 days and i have a batch of adorable muffed and bearded yellow striped bitties! Mission accomplished! ......or so i thought.
Upon closer inspection, they all have yellow legs,not blue like an EE or ameraucauna .
im assuming my dark cornish rooster mated my hens when they were in the yard And he must be a very fertile breeder! Only one chick hatched with blue feet and they were folded under. I had to dispose of him.
Well, i guess either way they are still EE right?
Blue wheaton Ameraucauna ×Dark cornish
I collected eggs for 2 weeks and began to incubate them.
fast forward 21 days and i have a batch of adorable muffed and bearded yellow striped bitties! Mission accomplished! ......or so i thought.
Upon closer inspection, they all have yellow legs,not blue like an EE or ameraucauna .
im assuming my dark cornish rooster mated my hens when they were in the yard And he must be a very fertile breeder! Only one chick hatched with blue feet and they were folded under. I had to dispose of him.
Well, i guess either way they are still EE right?
Blue wheaton Ameraucauna ×Dark cornish
