EE layers...

[prariechiken]

What breeds are usually crossed with Ameraucanas to create easter egg chickens? Does anybody have a clue as to what the hatcheries use?

 

[Break an Egg]

I think they may use some kind of game fowl. One of mine has that kind of face. But they could probably use many others, who knows?

 

[hcammack]

I feel like mine is a jummble and has bin mixed for a bunch of years crossed and crossed again with other mixes.

Henry

 

[Anne]

Most EE's are not a direct Ameraucana cross. They've been mixed up for many, many generations. There's no telling what breeds are in their distant history, probably a little bit of everything for most of them. They are mixes crossed with mixes crossed with mixes crossed with mixes, and so on an so forth.

 

[prariechiken]

So mutts they are....some of my best dogs growing up were mutts...

 

[Anne]

EE's are very cool birds. They are usually selected for pretty feather colors and patterns, egg color and laying ability, and personality.