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Easter Eggers are very common, usually someone wondering which they have means its an Easter Egger, and this particular hen is not a recognized Ameraucana color. She's close, and she's got what appears to be slate legs, but her color isn't quite right.
This is the closest, a Silver Duckwing.
http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook_files/lfsilverf.jpg
But she has blue in her, which is muting the duckwing and also just plain showing blue come in. I've been noticing this as a trend with Easter Eggers from hatcheries - In the last two years they've suddenly been spitting out a lot of EE's with blue in them.
What do you mean by "blue"? I don't see any blue! LOL Where should I look to see it? I'm trying to learn... apparently I'm blind lol
Blue in chickens, dogs, horses, ducks, etc is basically a slate blue-grey color.
See how she's got alot of that slate coloring tipping her feathers and more on her tail and neck? Chickens with blue genes tend to have blue wherever there would normally be black.
Easter Eggers are very common, usually someone wondering which they have means its an Easter Egger, and this particular hen is not a recognized Ameraucana color. She's close, and she's got what appears to be slate legs, but her color isn't quite right.
This is the closest, a Silver Duckwing.
http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook_files/lfsilverf.jpg
But she has blue in her, which is muting the duckwing and also just plain showing blue come in. I've been noticing this as a trend with Easter Eggers from hatcheries - In the last two years they've suddenly been spitting out a lot of EE's with blue in them.
What do you mean by "blue"? I don't see any blue! LOL Where should I look to see it? I'm trying to learn... apparently I'm blind lol
Blue in chickens, dogs, horses, ducks, etc is basically a slate blue-grey color.
