Buff Orpington X Buff Ameraucana

[brandoncakes]

Let's say both of these birds are of PURE quality. If I breed these two breeds together, will i get a buff Easter Egger? Will ALL pullets lay green eggs? Or will they lay EITHER blue, green, or brown eggs? Does it matter whether I breed a BO roo X BA hen? Or BO hen X BA roo?

Anyone have pictures of such a cross?

Brandon

 

[brandoncakes]

The goal is to get a buff Easter Egger that lays only green eggs. And will these breed true? Will an F1 x F1 make F1 babies that lay green eggs?

Will this also work if I bred a Black Marans x Black Ameraucana for a black Olive Egger? And will those breed true and produce olive egger babies?

 

[donrae]

They won't breed true, I don't think.

taking your first example...it doesn't matter which parent is which. So,pure brown roo over pure blue hen. Offspring has one copy each brown and blue, to make a shade of green. So you're good on your F1 for green eggs.

But then, breed F1 to F1 and you muddy the waters. I'm sure it's a little more complicated than a simple square, but I'm thinking you'd get something like 25% brown egg layers, 50% green, and 25% blue. And it would only go downhill from there. Again, I'm sure it's more complicated that that, but that's a simplified version. And pretty much same for the Olive eggers, when you get to F2 it's a crapshoot.

 

[Manningjw]

The goal is to get a buff Easter Egger that lays only green eggs. And will these breed true? Will an F1 x F1 make F1 babies that lay green eggs?

Will this also work if I bred a Black Marans x Black Ameraucana for a black Olive Egger? And will those breed true and produce olive egger babies?

They will not breed true but the F1 generation will yield 100% light green egg layers if you for sure have pure stock. There are too many genes involved that aren't fully known for brown eggs but the F1 x F1 generation cross will yield primarily very light colored green eggs to medium green EE type color.

The Blue egg gene is better understood - for our purposes state side, there is only 1 gene involved that produces the blue egg color and it is very closely linked to pea combs and it is dominant just like the pea comb gene so we are exceptionally lucky for that. Orpington x Ameraucana F1 to F1 cross 25% will also lay off white or light brown eggs but more than likely all of those will have a straight comb. Another 25% will be homozygous for the blue egg gene and you can select for tight pea combs and do a test cross back to a straight comb chicken - if any resulting offspring have straight combs than the test demonstrated the bird only has 1 pea comb gene and likely 1 blue egg gene as well. Alternatively - if they all hatch with pea combs you likely have both genes in that bird.

 

[Chriskits]

I know this thread is old but has anyone done this before and do you want to send me a picture of one, since my wife wants to breed them.

 

[Cinnamon Roll]

I have three half Buff Orpington/ half “Ameraucana” (hatchery Easter egger) hens and they lay light brown eggs. I didn’t keep the roosters but I included a picture of one as well.

 

[Chriskits]

I have three half Buff Orpington/ half “Ameraucana” (hatchery Easter egger) hens and they lay light brown eggs. I didn’t keep the roosters but I included a picture of one as well.

Thank you so much!

 

[PRchick]

If you wanted the hens to lay green eggs, you would have to make sure that the Ameraucana is purebred and not an Easter Egger. You would need a Wheaten Ameraucana as your your hen or cockerel and a Buff Orpington as the other.