Dark green Ameraucana egg?

[EmmaRainboe]

Here’s an egg color chart from the ABC, however that egg seems to have more of a brown tint than even the greenest greens in the green range.

 

[3DFowlFarm]

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Hey all,
I'm working on ameracunas this year. Have a flock of six. 4 lavender one splash hen and a black roo. The roo I have only had for a few months and he is wonderful. Gets the job done, sweet to the ladies, and gives me my space. He comes from true blue lines, at least is what I was told. So I'm excited to see the eggs his daughters lay. Here is my question.. I know ameracunas can lay blue to minty eggs. But one of my bearded ladies is laying an olive one. Not sure who it is. Is it normal for a pure ameracuna to lay one so dark? Or dose she have a brown gene in there? All the ameracunas have slate clean legs, muffs in order, living up to the sop. I have 24 of the eggs in the incubator. I was thinking about separating the blue eggs from the green during hatch time and marking them. To see what color eggs they lay. What do you all thinkView attachment 3001368View attachment 3001369View attachment 3001370

He is GORGEOUS

 

[ChickNanny13]

From my understanding/reading .... Ameraucanas are Arucana bred to something else to breed out the "lethal" gene & should lay blue eggs. But that sure looks like an OE egg ... Waiting to see what you all come up with

 

[Painted Calls]

Thinking favaucana?

Thinking Green Queen.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

From my understanding/reading .... Ameraucanas are Arucana bred to something else to breed out the "lethal" gene & should lay blue eggs. But that sure looks like an OE egg ... Waiting to see what you all come up with

Not exactly. My understanding is Araucanas and Ameraucanas were both bred from “Araucanas” (not the APA accepted Araucanas as we know today. Some will argue they should be called EEs, but at the time they were called Araucanas.) Ameraucanas and Araucanas were more developed simultaneously, as opposed to one coming from the other. Araucanas as we know them today were accepted first, but only accepted the tufted variety Araucanas, leaving the breeders of the bearded variety left out, which later got accepted into the APA under the name of “Ameraucana” (American Araucana.)

 

[americanchicks]

Hey all sorry I didn't respond sooner. I got eggs from a gal who breeds lavender ameracunas. She had a wonderful set up her birds where separated from each other she had other breeds. 8 out of 12 hatched, 3 where roos, sold them and 2 hens, kept 3 hens. All where lavender ameracuna. My 2 other hens came from my birds. I had a flock of ameracunas almost 2 years ago. They where a splash roo and ameracunas that I got as chicks black and lavenders. Splash roo was given to me and chicks i got off CL. That flock got killed when a Coyote broke into their pen. So I hatched their last eggs and got 2 hens, a lavender and a splash. So I'm thinking the dark green egg layer my be coming from one of my hens. I did have a maran roo at the time and it's possible he snuck in there. It just have to catch her laying so I can figure out who it is. I don't have to worry about any sneaky roos now because pitch is my only roo.