Do I need pure Ameraucauna Roo to make blue eggs?

[happyhatcher1981]

I have 8 Ameraucauna hens and the goal is to have all blue eggs. I am very new to this and need some help. Should I wait until they lay and see the egg color before deciding on a pure Ameraucauna roo to assist in making them? Not sure if I am posing the question right but let me know if I need to clarify. Thank you!!

 

[chrissynemetz]

Are you wanting to hatch chicks from your hens?

 

[chrissynemetz]

If your girls are Ameraucana they will lay blue eggs. The only reason you would need a rooster would be if you were wanting to breed them.

 

[Kusanar]

Ok, the eggs you get from your hen will be whatever color they are from her without any rooster being present at all. The rooster does not have a thing to do with egg color of the eggs that are his children. Now, if you breed a blue egg laying hen with a brown egg laying breed rooster, then his daughters will not lay blue like their mothers but the eggs they hatch from will be blue.

Make sense?

 

[Ted_Harrell]

As kusanar said, a blue hen to a brown type rooster will net you olive eggs. It depends if you will be hatching eggs. If not then you don't even need a rooster. If you want to reproduce what hens you have then you need a rooster of the same type.

 

[happyhatcher1981]

Are you wanting to hatch chicks from your hens?

Hi! Yes not right away though

 

[happyhatcher1981]

If your girls are Ameraucana they will lay blue eggs. The only reason you would need a rooster would be if you were wanting to breed them.

Thank you so much! I would like to have hatching babies later but want to start out with the hens laying without the rooster. Appreciate your insight!

 

[happyhatcher1981]

As kusanar said, a blue hen to a brown type rooster will net you olive eggs. It depends if you will be hatching eggs. If not then you don't even need a rooster. If you want to reproduce what hens you have then you need a rooster of the same type.

Great info- this is what I was looking for. Thank you bunches! I do want to hatch later down the road and good to know i need the same type of roo as my hens

 

[PirateGirl]

If you have pure Ameraucana hens then you should do quite well if you get a pure male to breed with them and sell the chicks.

 

[happyhatcher1981]

If you have pure Ameraucana hens then you should do quite well if you get a pure male to breed with them and sell the chicks.

Great!! Thank you so much!!