Easter Eggers-What breeds do YOU prefer to cross your Ameraucanas with?

[speckledhen]

They're long gone. I did post a picture of one of them in this thread, a blue barred hen, but I'd have to go through my old folders and it would take awhile. My last one died about two years ago.
In this thread there are pics of Riley, blue barred, and Panda:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...orpington-crosses.260111/page-3#post-22850357

 

[Heathercr03]

Here is the barring I mean in that tail featherView attachment 3517382

Oh wow yes I see it sneaky little buggers lol she better be a hen though I have enough roos! I'd like some green eggs out of this!

 

[Cluckingtime]

I only have one roo for breeding and it's a Light Brahma. I crossed him with my two EE hen I have of dif colors. One is a rust color and one is silver/blue. All my babies have yellow legs but all have muffs and beards. All also have mostly white coloring with silver mixed in tho they do not have adult coloring yet. It looks like the under feathers of the rust colored feathers on one of my EE are gray.. how do the color genetics work with this mix as adult coloring?

 

[altballard]

If you use your AM roo with barred hens you will have sex linked EE and they may or may not be bearded. If you cross with a brown egg layer you might get green eggs. And all of those hens could produce EE without beards. I have loads of beardless EE.... I am breeding toward all having beards and muffs now. I have an AM roo over all my EE, but they are mostly Blue and Black and what I like about EE is all the unpredictable colors. Cross them with your EE.... Cross them with any, but remember most people who want EE want a blue/green egg and you might get just brown with most of those hens. It is a crap shot.....

Do you have pics of the AM x Bard hen chicks? I have one I'm trying to sex. This little black chick just hatched. Hopefully you can see the spot well enough.

 

[TheGoldenPoppy]

Hey,

I am a high school teacher and I use rare chicken breeds and egg colors to teach sustainability & genetics. We research different egg colors and breeding for various egg colors. We are going to be hatching some olive eggers and various other breeds soon in the classroom.

Has anyone tried a cross between two blue egg laying breeds (Ameraucana with Cream Legbar) or even a cross between a blue egg layer with a green egg layer. I am just curious if this would produce a brighter blue egg layer or even a brighter turquoise colored egg. Anyone tried this or have opinions/predictions or a hypotheses?

Thanks!

If you crow blue layer with olive egger you get what’s called a spearmint egger. I have yet to cross this but I have an F2/F3 olive egger roo and will breed with my Ameraucana hen and all my other colored layers. Excited to see.”