EE or Ameraucana?

[EmmaRainboe]

Just don't call your non-standard Leghorns EEs.

He doesn't actually. The point he was trying to make was that the term "Easter Egger" has come so far to where the current definition that is being spread around is a chicken that has any features and lays any egg color; there is nothing an EE should or shouldn't have.

 

[DarJones]

I would not object so much to EE's except that they are rarely stable for the blue egg gene. Some lay pinkish eggs, some brown, some blue, some green.

 

[nicalandia]

He doesn't actually. The point he was trying to make was that the term "Easter Egger" has come so far to where the current definition that is being spread around is a chicken that has any features and lays any egg color; there is nothing an EE should or shouldn't have.

Did you read his mind? I believe he was being serious.

 

[Painted Calls]

Did you read his mind? I believe he was being serious.

He was not. Emma read it 100% how he meant it.

 

[nicalandia]

He was not. Emma read it 100% how he meant it.

How are you two able to read people's mind?

All I know is when I mix two leghorns of different varieties I do usually refer to the mixed color offspring as Easter Eggers.

 

[Painted Calls]

How are you two able to read people's mind?

We KNOW him. We don't have to.

 

[Painted Calls]

It's called sarcasm. He uses it too often and confuses people.

 

[nicalandia]

It's called sarcasm. He uses it too often and confuses people.

I have Asperger and often times can't detect sarcasm.

 

[Painted Calls]

I have Asperger and often times can't detect sarcasm.

I understand completely!

 

[ColtHandorf]

I would not object so much to EE's except that they are rarely stable for the blue egg gene. Some lay pinkish eggs, some brown, some blue, some green.

Yeah, I remember twenty years ago when I had what I now know were Easter Eggers and they all laid blue or green. I remember being inordinately pleased with myself when I crossed a Marans hen to my EE rooster and got a pullet that laid army green eggs. That was back before the "Olive Egger" was all the rage. And now people are making Fibro EE/OE and a bunch of other nonsense that basically amounts to a bunch of mongrel birds whose type and egg color are all over the place. And with the addition of the CCL to the EE mix, it's just further messed up what little they had going for them for type. lol