Green eggs...Ameraucanas...auarcanas....EE's....whatever...questions

[alpinefarm]

Wonderful project! I'll be watchin' for these and for your mille fleur cochins...!

 

[chickiepoo2]

Hey geareduplyn I want the chickies....do you still have them?

 

[mothergoose1963]

I would love to see your pictures of Olive eggs. Does anyone have pictures of eggs with a Marans crossed with an Ameracauna? I have some in the bator, but want to see what they might lay! It is my winter eggsperiment!

Does anyone have any? Also, once I hatch some of these, what kind of rooster do I use with them? Any suggestions? Another Olive egger or an Ameracauna or a Marans? What do you think? Thanks for the help!

 

[JamesA]

I am starting the same project and was wondering the same question mothergoose.What roo do I breed to the offspring.I was thinking probably use another maran to darken the eggs even more.Any help would be appreciated.

 

[drliz]

I only have 7 chickens, all of which are sex-linked Reds but one of them lays the most beautiful blue eggs i've ever seen. Has anyone ever heard of that?

 

[speckledhen]

Your red has an ancestor with the blue egg gene.

Here are eggs laid by a BR over Blue Ameraucana, who is owned by my friend in CA (came from my flock) Her half sister that I own lays a green egg, but a different lighter shade.

 

[dbullock]

What type of cross would result in a pink egg layer. My daughter really wants a hen that lays a pink egg. Finding a hen for sale that lays pink eggs is proving very difficult. I have some dominque hens and some what I think are RIR's. Could I get a EE rooster and cross them to get a pink egg layer?

 

[klf73]

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you would most likely get green from that cross...

 

[Solsken Farm]

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Pinkish egg layers that I know of are the Salmon Favs and Orpingtons. I believe you might also get some pinks from using a darker layer with a white or light brown layer. I believe I read somewhere someone crossed a Copper Black Marans with a RIR and got some nice pinkish eggs.

 

[dbullock]

One of the two hens I adopted lays a really pale brown color egg. I say they are RIR's because I am not sure what they are and they have redish-orange feathers, except one has black specks on some of the feathers especially around the breast and head. Would a cross with that hen have any chance of laying pink eggs?