Whew, that's a long story. Lol! I initially started out crossing Ameraucana with Welsummer the first generation, and while I was happy with their egg color, they took way too long to mature. In a side project, I crossed my best laying Leghorn with my Ameraucana. Their offspring ended up producing very nice light blue/green colored eggs faster and of larger size than my Ameraucana or Easter Eggers. I then crossed a cockerel out of that hatch with a BCM hen. Their offspring lay a medium colored large olive egg. That's the general "fly over" gist of it. If you want the exact pairings I'd be more than happy to share my records/pictures. I have a few more pet projects I'm working on with them, but have recently poured most of my focus into my Isabel Leghorn project. We supply our ever growing church and family with eggs, so I'm always trying to improve production out of my colored egg layers as that's what is in demand.![]()
That's great! I'm just beginning to work with a BCMx (that particular rooster threw a coupe wheaten chicks, so he's out of the BCM program, but he's huge, so the males from his cross w the EEs are possible meat birds too.) For now, they're maturing quickly, but it's a a wait and see on the egg color the pullets produce. If you feel inclined and want to pm me with your breeding, etc. I'd love to see it.