HELP ME PLEASE!!!!

[hot93chick]

I need help with the following 7 chickens...
Okay first of all, my cousin and I saved a bunch of her eggs from her backyard chickens and through them in an incubator, not knowing whose egg was what and not knowing which rooster fertilized which egg..


Potential Mothers:
Barred Rock
Ameraucana
RI Red
NH Red
Austrolorp

Potential Fathers:
RI Red
Austrolorp
White Ameraucana (see picture below)






Okay and here are the seven chickens I need to find the breeds of:










ALL THE PICTURES ARE BEFORE AND AFTERS. PLEASE HELP ME TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHO THE PARENTS ARE!

SO FAR I HAVE:

1) barred rock mom with ______ father (any father really because all barred hens will produce barred boys)
2) looks a lot like the austrolorp father.. but who could the mother be?
3) austrolorp mom and dad
4) hatched out of a brown egg... not sure what the father/mother could be though..
5) white ameraucana dad with ameraucana mom (she hatched out of a blue egg so i know who the mom is)
6) did not hatch out of an EE egg... but EE's can still lay brown eggs right? or maybe it was a NH red egg?
7) hatched out of an EE egg. I know the mother is an ameraucana, but who could the father be?



here is another picture of #4




PLEASE HELP ME

 

[tinychicky]

You probably have easter eggers, not pure ameraucanas. Easter eggers (EE's) are a green egg laying hybrid and can be and size shape or color as long as it carries the blue-egg gene.
1. Barred rock X EE
2. Austrolorp X EE
3. Pure Austrolorp
4.RIR or NH X EE (considered an EE, will lay green eggs)
5. Pure EE
6.RIR or NH X EE (also is considered an EE... carries the blue egg gene)
7.Pure EE

 

[tinychicky]

Explanation of the blue egg gene:

Naturally the base color of all chicken egg shells is white. The bloom is the last layer of the egg that is sprayed on in the vagina of the bird just before it's laid. The pigment or lack thereof determines the color of the finished egg.

Blue egg layers lay such eggs because long ago their ancestors mated with a blue egg laying species of pheasant. This cross has been replicated in recent years using several species of pheasant. The blue egg gene became dominant in these birds and thier offspring. The normally white based shells were now blue. These birds became two distinct feral breeds: the Collonca (they were rumpless meaning they lack a uropygium, also known as the coccyx or tailbone) and the Quetros (tufted birds, with fleshy appendages on either sides of thier faces with feathers attached to them). The two breeds were combined to make the first Araucanas. Unfortunatly the tuftedness and rumplessness carried with them many lethal genes causing a percentage of chicks to die before hatching.

In more recent years, English poultry breeders decided to create thier own version of the Araucana; one that did not carry those lethal genes. Tailed, bearded and crested, they called the new birds Ameraucanas. Americans took the idea and bred out the crest leaving the Ameraucana we know in the U.S today.

With the rise in poultry demand in recent years, many hatcheries discovered that be breeding Ameraucanas and Araucanas to brown egg laying breeds they could achieve a new green egg laying hen. They called them, inaccuratly, Araucanas, Ameraucanas or various misspellings of such. In truth, they are known as Easter Eggers are are not recognized by the American Standard of Perfection. The brown pigmented bloom sprayed onto the blue shells resulted in green eggs. When dark brown egg layers such as Marans and Welsummers are crossed to blue egg layers the resultant offspring, known as Olive Eggers, lay dark green eggs.


I hope this helps!

 

[BlueCamas]

You probably have easter eggers, not pure ameraucanas. Easter eggers (EE's) are a green egg laying hybrid and can be and size shape or color as long as it carries the blue-egg gene.
1. Barred rock X EE
2. Austrolorp X EE
3. Pure Austrolorp
4.RIR or NH X EE (considered an EE, will lay green eggs)
5. Pure EE
6.RIR or NH X EE (also is considered an EE... carries the blue egg gene)
7.Pure EE

x2 my thoughts exactly.

 

[hot93chick]

so you think they all have EE in them?

i feel like #2 would be barred rock and austrolorp... she looks a lot like the father and didnt hatch from a blue egg..
also could #7's father be an austrolorp and a mother an ameraucana?

 

[hot93chick]

also does #1's father have to be an EE? he didnt hatch from a blue egg either. he hatched from a brown egg.

 

[farmerChef]

all the chicks with beards have either an EE mom and/or dad.
1, 4, and 6 are roosters

 

[Cha-rails]

The tufts in #1 tell you that it is part EE.

 

[donrae]

You probably have easter eggers, not pure ameraucanas. Easter eggers (EE's) are a green egg laying hybrid and can be and size shape or color as long as it carries the blue-egg gene.
1. Barred rock X EE
2. Austrolorp X EE
3. Pure Austrolorp
4.RIR or NH X EE (considered an EE, will lay green eggs)
5. Pure EE
6.RIR or NH X EE (also is considered an EE... carries the blue egg gene)
7.Pure EE

I'd go with this also, except I don't think #4 will ever give you green eggs. His daugher might, but not him personally. #1 is also a cockeral, I think the rest look like pullets.

 

[farmerChef]

The tufts in #1 tell you that it is part EE.

Those are muffs, not tufts. Araucanas have tuffs, they have little fleshy bumps on the side of their face that normal sized feathers grow out of. Go check out feathersite.com for some pictures, I am on my phone, so I can't upload pictures.