Easter Eggers, are they breedable or do you have what you have

[ShinShien]

I believe you are correct, if your EE lays green and Welsummer lays the dark brown, then with any luck at all, you should have Olive Eggers, Good Luck

Thanks. Only 3 of 6 eggs hatched, and 2 are roosters. I'm hoping the lone Olive Egger pullet lays the olive-colored egg.

 

[topdog24]

EE's are not botched anything, nor are they Ameraucanas, I underline that as it is the correct spelling of the actual breed.

EE's come in many shapes and forms, but most commonly they are blue or green egg layers that have traits similar to Ameraucanas.
They really can lay any color egg, and they are wonderful chickens to have. Generally they are good layers and usually lay blue or green egg. but not always.

If your goal is a flock of colored egg layers, you most likely have those. As for passing on traits...yes and no.

For one thing, those are not "tufts"...those are "muffs" or "beards" . "Tufts" are an Aruacana thing, not Ameraucana and are completely different - they grow out of the ears. Yes they should return as the chicks feather in.
Most likely, two muffed and bearded birds bread together will produce muffed & bearded offspring.
The blue egg gene will most generally pass, as will the pea shape comb. So if they lay Blue or green eggs, so will their offspring.
Note: green eggs are a Blue egg/brown egg mix.

Now will they "return" to being an Ameraucana through successive breeding.....only if you bred them to Ameraucanas, and then bred back to Ameraucanas...again and again until you have removed all the non-Ameraucana genes! So in other words...no.

Gluing wood to steel, does not make it wooden steel, it makes it wood glued to steel

If the desired end result you speak of is to have True Ameraucanas, then you need to buy Ameraucanas, not Easter eggers.
I am sorry if you thought you did, but you did not.

Hatcheries do this every day, with every breed. If you buy a Rhode Island Red from a hatchery...it looks nothing like a Rhode Island Red should look!


And finally: Yes, an EE cross with a Welsummer makes an Olive Egger.

 

[ChickenLeg]

What you have in your pictures are Easter Eggers, they are not Ameraucanas.

Ameraucanas have to meet the standards to be considered an Ameraucana.

Also Easter Eggers were used to create Ameraucanas. Therefore, in theory you could create
Ameraucanas from Easter Eggers, but why would you want to spend decades trying to perfect
an already established breed?

If you continue to use the Easter Eggers you purchased for breeding, then you would continue to
breed for Easter Eggers.

Also, any cross of Easter Egger can usually be considered an Easter Egger, Easter Eggers don't really have
a typical standard by any means. They can consist of any comb, muff or muff-less, a broad range of colored eggs, ect...

 

[PoultryQueen101]

I eill post pics of my ameraucanas tomorrow, and my EE luna. There is not much difference at all... but because of her color, she is an EE

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

You've gotten some great information here. It is a shame that hatcheries cause such confusion with this breed. Speaking to OP, what you have are definitely EE's regardless of what they were sold as. EE's are lovely colorful birds and great layers, much better layers than Ameraucanas. Yes you can breed them to each other to make more EE's. Good luck with your lovely little flock.

 

[PoultryQueen101]

Our ameraucanas are as great of layers than our EE....