This is a wonderful thread with awesome information and it is about time I contributed. I have raised Blue, Black, Splash, and White Ameraucanas, and had a lavender barred EE bantam (who met the Ameraucana Standard except for color obviously. I seem to have lost all the pictures of the Ameraucanas and the pretty bantam EE but I do have pictures of my Large Fowl Easter Eggers.
Here is their description in my old Hatching Catalog:
The Easter Egger is a chicken well known for its ability to lay blue and green eggs. None of the birds in this flock lay brown or pinkish eggs. I have selected the majority of the birds to have muffs and beards, but occasionally a non-bearded or muffed bird will make it to the breeding pen because of an interesting color. Egg color can range from a light pastel blue, sea foam green, olive green, and finally to a deep army green. Some of the green eggs will have violet or chocolate colored speckles on them. The darkest green eggs are produced by Cuckoo Marans x Easter Egger Crosses. The color of the birds can be as much of a surprise as their eggs. Adults can be found in solid colors like buff, white, black, blue, splash, red, and brown, or in broken colors like cuckoo, wheaten, silver duckwing, partridge, penciled, columbian, and any other variation you can imagine. The hens lay very well and the roosters are very friendly. Extra Ameraucanas are on this yard, so occasionally you may receive a pure blue, black, splash, or white Ameraucana chick.
And here are their pictures:
Splash my EE rooster (with the Gabor sisters in the background, Eva and Zsa Zsa):
Valerie and EE hen:
Close-up of Zsa Zsa:
Easter Eggers hunting for scratch (with Marans in the background behind their fence):
Splash as a younger fellow:
EE eggs on the far left:
For posterity...lol There are several blue and green eggs in there that stand out. The green-ish ones on the bottom of the rack are duck eggs.
