Project Blue
Songster
- Apr 13, 2025
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On December 29th I found a dark green egg in the coop laid from either a Splash Ameracauna pullet, (not likely) or a half Ameracauna pullet almost certainly the layer. I'm not expecting it to be fertile as the rooster is also a first timer. He has grown out nicely but doesn't seem to be crowing yet. I'm really curious if the very first egg a chicken lays can be fertile? It was just such a beautiful and unexpected colored egg. The eggs the pullets hatched out of were pale mint colored and the roo that fathered the pullets is a Wheaton Ameraucana.
Aside from the fertility question, I'm also trying to figure out parentage of the pullet since I'm trying to recover my original type chickens slaughtered by a pit bull. I gave a relative a Wheaton roo, hen, and buff hen, all Ameraucanas. She also had a BCM, a solid white EE with greenish legs, a brahma and some solid light grey hen with a single comb. The BCM and Brahma have feather legs the pullet does not.
The pullet came from that bunch. She looks like your typical EE, mostly red with black markings, muff and beard, but bright yellowish orange legs. So now she is officially a dark olive egger with spots. Who is most likely her mother? I asked my relative to give me her blue eggs and got like I said, late season pale mint eggs.
Aside from the fertility question, I'm also trying to figure out parentage of the pullet since I'm trying to recover my original type chickens slaughtered by a pit bull. I gave a relative a Wheaton roo, hen, and buff hen, all Ameraucanas. She also had a BCM, a solid white EE with greenish legs, a brahma and some solid light grey hen with a single comb. The BCM and Brahma have feather legs the pullet does not.
The pullet came from that bunch. She looks like your typical EE, mostly red with black markings, muff and beard, but bright yellowish orange legs. So now she is officially a dark olive egger with spots. Who is most likely her mother? I asked my relative to give me her blue eggs and got like I said, late season pale mint eggs.
