Chicken Laying wrong color egg?!

[junebuggena]

The easiest way to tell if you are buying Easter Eggers or true Ameraucana is that true Ameraucana ALWAYS have a color/variety specified. If no color/variety is specified, it's a safe bet it's an Easter Egger.

 

[coach723]

If you really want an Ameraucana, here is a link. On the left of the page are links to a list of breeders by name or by state. http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/
Also good info on the standards for the Ameraucana breed.
The next link will take you to a site that has photos of the accepted colorings for Ameraucana's, anything else is an easter egger and easter eggers can lay brown eggs if they don't get the blue egg coloring gene.
http://ameraucanaalliance.org/photos.html

 

[OneMountainAcres]

The next link will take you to a site that has photos of the accepted colorings for Ameraucana's, anything else is an easter egger and easter eggers can lay brown eggs if they don't get the blue egg coloring gene.
http://ameraucanaalliance.org/photos.html

ALMOST anything else is an easter egger. They don't have Lavender/self blue on that list. I don't think it's an accepted color yet but they're still true ameraucanas.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Lavender isn't an APA recognised variety in Ameraucana.
For some people if the APA doesn't recognise that variety in that breed then it isn't that breed.

 

[coach723]

My understanding is that lavender/self blue has been petitioned for as an accepted color, but has not yet been added. Last thing I read, a while ago, was there was hope it would be added this year.

 

[SonoranChick]

She's a very pretty girl! She almost looks like my Maple (feed store easter egger). I'm sorry that she lays brown though. Maple, when she actually does lay, lays a big green egg.

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Maple is quite gorgeous Her feather pattern looks like my brown leghorn Momo.