Easter Egger club!

[LilJoe]

OK, so I'll a
OK, so I'll ask again; can anyone recommend a good source for Easter Egger pullets? 

I'm not sure about Easter Eggers but the Murray McMurray Hatchery can sex 100% (most of the time it's a 1 in a million chance you'll get the wrong sex) but they provide Americaunas and Aracaunas

 

[junebuggena]

I'm not sure about Easter Eggers but the Murray McMurray Hatchery can sex 100% (most of the time it's a 1 in a million chance you'll get the wrong sex) but they provide Americaunas and Aracaunas

Actually, Murray McMurray has Easter Eggers. They just market them incorrectly. They have neither Ameraucana nor Araucana breeds.

 

[LilJoe]

Actually, Murray McMurray has Easter Eggers. They just market them incorrectly. They have neither Ameraucana nor Araucana breeds.

so they marked the EEs as Ameras and araus?

 

[junebuggena]

so they marked the EEs as Ameras and araus?

Correct. They are marketed as Ameraucana/Araucana, like both breeds are the same thing. They're breeding from stock that was developed prior to either breed being recognized, and they never bothered to update the way they label their birds to reflect the APA acceptance of the Ameraucana and Araucana breeds.

 

[LilJoe]

Correct. They are marketed as Ameraucana/Araucana, like both breeds are the same thing. They're breeding from stock that was developed prior to either breed being recognized, and they never bothered to update the way they label their birds to reflect the APA acceptance of the Ameraucana and Araucana breeds.

whelp! Now I'm not confused anymore about my EE from there!

 

[Chicken5555]

I read that Cackle has true Ameraucana chicks. I bought 5 easter egger pullets from them, but I'm suspicious one may be a boy. The comb wider than the other four and there's been pink in the comb for a couple weeks now. Oh, well. That's one more free-ranger to eat black widow and brown recluse spiders.

 

[junebuggena]

Cackle just started offering Black Ameraucana, straight run chicks this year. And both Meyer and MyPetChicken.com have sexed Blue. All other hatcheries have Easter Eggers. Ameraucana always have a color/variety specified. If no color/variety is specified, it's probably an Easter Egger.

 

[FlyWheel]

I got three beautiful pullets from chickensforbackyards.com All are sweet, thriving, and the most beautiful birds I've ever had. Plus they have small minimum orders. Here are mine at almost 3 weeks

I'll let you know what color eggs they lay when they start laying.

Thanks! I see they also handle small orders too, I'll check them out.

Correct. They are marketed as Ameraucana/Araucana, like both breeds are the same thing. They're breeding from stock that was developed prior to either breed being recognized, and they never bothered to update the way they label their birds to reflect the APA acceptance of the Ameraucana and Araucana breeds.

The Ameraucana was developed from the Araucana, possibly to reduce morbidity resulting from the "tuft" gene which can prove fatal to the developing chick. "Easter Eggers" commonly mislabeled as Araucanas, Ameraucanas, AmerIcanas, etc. are basically any chicken which posses the blue egg gene but is not a 'pure' breed according to the Araucana Alliance:

Quote: From what I've gathered if you want a true Araucana or Ameraucana you have to go through an actual breeder, not a hatchery.

 

[junebuggena]

Thanks! I see they also handle small orders too, I'll check them out.

The Ameraucana was developed from the Araucana, possibly to reduce morbidity resulting from the "tuft" gene which can prove fatal to the developing chick. "Easter Eggers" commonly mislabeled as Araucanas, Ameraucanas, AmerIcanas, etc. are basically any chicken which posses the blue egg gene but is not a 'pure' breed according to the Araucana Alliance:

From what I've gathered if you want a true Araucana or Ameraucana you have to go through an actual breeder, not a hatchery.

Before the Araucana breed had an accepted standard, all blue layers were called Araucana. There were no distinctions made between Easter Egger, Ameraucana, and Araucana. They were all just called Araucana; rumpless, muffed, tailed, or tufted. This is what makes the breed histories so confusing. What the breed histories refer to as Araucana, prior to the 1970s, is not what we consider an Araucana today. Prior to that, they were all what we would consider Easter Eggers today.

 

[FlyWheel]

Thanks. I have been trying to correct that but the board won't let me: I keep getting an error message.

Let's try it this way...

I got three beautiful pullets from chickensforbackyards.com All are sweet, thriving, and the most beautiful birds I've ever had. Plus they have small minimum orders. Here are mine at almost 3 weeks

I'll let you know what color eggs they lay when they start laying.

Thanks! I see they also handle small orders too, I'll check them out.

Correct. They are marketed as Ameraucana/Araucana, like both breeds are the same thing. They're breeding from stock that was developed prior to either breed being recognized, and they never bothered to update the way they label their birds to reflect the APA acceptance of the Ameraucana and Araucana breeds.

"Easter Eggers" commonly mislabeled as Araucanas, Ameraucanas, AmerIcanas, etc. are basically any chicken which posses the blue egg gene but is not a 'pure' breed according to the Araucana Alliance:

Quote: From what I've gathered if you want a true Araucana or Ameraucana you have to go through an actual breeder, not a hatchery.