Colored Eggs

[Kiki]

Can't believe I forgot to post the egg. I just added it to the pics!

The cuckoo laid it.

 

[SRC87]

The cuckoo laid it.

Thank you! Thought it was her but I thought the eggs might be slightly darker!

 

[Kiki]

Thank you! Thought it was her but I thought the eggs might be slightly darker!

It may get a little darker with time. May.

 

[SRC87]

It may get a little darker with time. May.

Either way she'll have my darkest eggs so I'll take what I get!

 

[Firekin1]

True Ameraucana lay blue eggs only. No green or green tinted.

Actually there is 46 shades on the colour chart, some being more in the green side

 

[The Moonshiner]

Actually there is 46 shades on the colour chart, some being more in the green side

Did the APA standard change to include green eggs?
Last I knew it called for blue eggs so chart or not imo they should not be laying any type of green egg.
Green eggs would mean a brown egg layer was in there somewhere so couldn't see that being a true Ameracauna.

 

[Firekin1]

Did the APA standard change to include green eggs?
Last I knew it called for blue eggs so chart or not imo they should not be laying any type of green egg.
Green eggs would mean a brown egg layer was in there somewhere so couldn't see that being a true Ameracauna.

No, it's the acceptable colours of "blue". Not every ameraucana is going to lay the same exact colour on a scale and not every person is going to see the same colour. Bloom, time of cycle, a person's colour aspect, and lighting will all change what you see as blue so they made a colour scale from A1-D8 as a reference for comparison. I would assume if you had any you would have known about the chart. Marans as well have a colour chart from 1 to 9, though anything below 4 is non desirable.

 

[K.Riggs]

My Araucana crosses lay blue green. I don't know what they are crossed with.

 

[The Moonshiner]

No, it's the acceptable colours of "blue". Not every ameraucana is going to lay the same exact colour on a scale and not every person is going to see the same colour. Bloom, time of cycle, a person's colour aspect, and lighting will all change what you see as blue so they made a colour scale from A1-D8 as a reference for comparison. I would assume if you had any you would have known about the chart. Marans as well have a colour chart from 1 to 9, though anything below 4 is non desirable.

You assume right. I do not have any at the moment. I raised them years ago before the internet and back then no one needed a chart. They laid blue eggs and that was that.
I can see why a chart is used but imo anything "greenish" should not be on it or bred as an Ameraucana.
I was unaware of the bloom and changing colors during their cycle. I thought that was all a brown egg thing not a blue egg thing.
Imo the Ameraucana breed is a headache now days. I know when I raise them and later on with the legbars that they all laid blue eggs. No shades of green. Except some legbars that came from GFF which I culled.
Their eggs didn't change colors like the Marans do. In the future if I want blue eggs I'll go back to legbars.I thought they laid a prettier blue and more of them then the Ameraucana.

 

[Redhenny]

My guess is 2/4 of them Hens?