Easter Egger club!

[estamets]

@RoosterLew whew, what a mouthful! Thanks for the clear, thorough explanation.

 

[lightchick]

But my "EE" still COULD be a EE right? The single comb doesn't mean that she won't lay blue eggs right?

 

[jerryse]

I thought they could even be any bird that had Ameracauna or Araucana parentage...

Yes they can but EE came first .

 

[sharonlily]

I miss my chickens!! I had 3 EE hens and one roo along with some barred rocks and Rhode Island reds. I sold my whole flock to a good home though so I could move into an RV to go to vet school. I'll have chickens again someday when I'm finished with school! =D

 

[RoosterLew]

But my "EE" still COULD be a EE right? The single comb doesn't mean that she won't lay blue eggs right?

Yes that is correct.

 

[ochochicas]

Now with Cream legbars and other blue egg laying chickens in the mix, EEs don't have to come from strictly Ameraucana or Araucana lines anymore. Originally the rose comb was strongly connected to the blue egg gene, so if you had one you generally had the other. Cream Legbars do not have rose combs, so their EE offspring might lay blue eggs without possessing the rose comb.

There is a good thread on the forum about the origin of Ameraucanas. It is my understanding that they were bred for years in Chile before being discovered globally. They were then exported and crossed with other breeds, thus producing Easter Eggers.

 

[lightchick]

So can my Elsa stay in the club? LOL.

 

[ochochicas]

http://www.ameraucana.org/history.html

Lengthy history of the origin of Ameraucanas, Araucanas and Easter Eggers. The former two were bred by South Americans before the invasion of the Spanish in the 1500s.

EEs originate from Ameruacanas and Araucanas, not the other way around.

 

[RoosterLew]

http://www.ameraucana.org/history.html

Lengthy history of the origin of Ameraucanas, Araucanas and Easter Eggers. The former two were bred by South Americans before the invasion of the Spanish in the 1500s.

EEs originate from Ameruacanas and Araucanas, not the other way around.

That is not what the link you just posted says....right in that link it says the Name "Ameraucana" came up in 1979....so how were they breeding them in South America in the 1500's??....The same link States that hatcheries were selling "Easter Egg" chickens in 1978....National Geographic had an article titled "Easter Egg Chickens" I believe in 1948?...somewhere along there.

So, as I stated in my post...there is conflicting information, even from those who "know".

" I think we could say Ameraucanas and Araucanas were both derived from what we call today Easter Egg chickens." - John Blem on the History of the Ameraucana.


So , if your going to quote someone...be sure you get it right!
Your statement is not true, has no historical evidence to back it up, and the evidence you tried to use says the opposite of what you stated.
This is why there is confusion and controversy around the EE's, because people spread eroneous information.

When I made the statement ".and the Ameraucana & Araucana crowd can feel free to slay me on this..." I did not mean I wouldn't defend what I wrote. I do not make such strong public statements without supporting evidence.

JUST FYI...I'm one of the "Ameraucana Crowd"..I have loved and followed them for years. Nobody knows me, I'm not important....but I'll say this.


In closing; Easter Eggers are the best Non-Breed going!!

 

[RoosterLew]

Now with Cream legbars and other blue egg laying chickens in the mix, EEs don't have to come from strictly Ameraucana or Araucana lines anymore. Originally the rose comb was strongly connected to the blue egg gene, so if you had one you generally had the other. Cream Legbars do not have rose combs, so their EE offspring might lay blue eggs without possessing the rose comb.

There is a good thread on the forum about the origin of Ameraucanas. It is my understanding that they were bred for years in Chile before being discovered globally. They were then exported and crossed with other breeds, thus producing Easter Eggers.

Are you sure you don't mean Pea Comb.....not Rose Comb?