Easter Egger club!

[vpatt]

I bought two hens yesterday. The lady said they were Ameracaunas....they are completely different from each other. One is that partridge brown looking color and has a beard....the lady said she lays blue eggs and is two years old. I am pretty sure from pictures she is an Easter Egger. The other is like or at least similar to pics of blue Americaunas on her body. She has a bright red single comb, big black eyes, black head and neck and feathered legs. She is very pretty and laid a very light brown ( sort of creamy beige) egg yesterday and today even tho I just got them yesterday. Sorry I don't know all the correct words for describing chickens. Do you think the second one can be an Easter Egger, too? The lady may have said she was part Ameracauna. (The hen...not the lady)

 

[ochochicas]

So if I put him with the blue egg layers later with they produce offspring with green or blue eggs?

Egg color genetics are not exactly "black and white". If you have an olive rooster and cross it with a blue egg layer, you could end up with hens that lay blue, green or olive eggs. If the rooster passed the dark brown gene to a blue egg layer you'd get an olive hen.

 

[QueenBubbles]

The case of the suddenly non laying hens has been solved. They have been waiting until they are let out in the evenings and go to lay in the dog house we have in the breeze way. Found 7 this morning there after the dog went after something that was in there and it was Tiger so I looked in and felt around and viola, a nest full of eggs.

That's happy ending! I can't wait until I get to do the "Easter Egger hunt"!

 

[redrooster99]

Ok so if any of you remember I was trying to find out what the gender of my EE's was. We'll here is an updated pic of the presumed roo.

 

[ochochicas]

I'd say roo. That comb is really red for his size. How old is he? My hen didn't start to get red in the comb until 20 weeks.

 

[number9]

So if I put him with the blue egg layers later with they produce offspring with green or blue eggs?

I think crossing it with a white egg layer would have a better chance of coming out green.

 

[redrooster99]

I'd say roo.  That comb is really red for his size.  How old is he?  My hen didn't start to get red in the comb until 20 weeks.

He is 6 weeks as of tomorrow

 

[redrooster99]

What about this one

 

[redrooster99]

And this one is around 3.5 months is it a boy.

 

[redrooster99]

So if I put him with the blue egg layers later with they produce offspring with green or blue eggs?

I think crossing it with a white egg layer would have a better chance of coming out green.

If you put a blue layer with a white egger it should give you lighter blue eggs I think.
Know if you put a blue egger with a brown egg layer it should give you green, with dark brown it will give you olive.
I believe this is correct.