How To tell an easter egger from an araucana and an ameracauna?

[Teresaann24]

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Love your eggs but I love your egg basket I so got to get me one of those...

 

[cariboujaguar]

I am still so lost and I've read and read all these posts on EE's VS Ameraucaunas etc, I can't even get the spellings right LOL

SO... I do not like the ear tufted rumpless birds, I have a muffed and tailed hen who lays a beautiful green/blue egg and I think she's ADORABLE is she an Ameraucana? Because I would LOVE to breed whatever she is for show, so are they a real breed you can show etc? I'm so lost

 

[Tailfeathers]

Hi CJ,

Send me an email with a pic of your bird and I'll tell ya. More than likely, since you have to ask, I am guessing it is an EE.

The reason I say that is because most folks who are for sure wanting an Ameraucana will get them from one of the breeders listed on the ABC Breeders List. If you got it from a hatchery or a feedstore, it's an EE.

God Bless,

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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I have 3 easter egger pullets (purchased as ameraucanas from the feed store). All 3 have grey/slate legs. Their eggs are the 3 colored ones in the top row (top left was a double yolker).

 

[McSpin]

Although you didn't touch-up the photo, photos on the internet are not reliable for color. Every camera has it's own software to interpret color - they all come up with something at least slightly different. Some are radically different. Each manufacturer applies levels of contrast, saturation and hue to each photo. Add in the fact that everyone's monitors show the photo at least slightly different. (I have 3 monitors in front of me right now. Two are calibrated. They all show your eggs differently). This means that what you see in person, is not what I'm seeing on my monitors. On my monitors, the paper towel in the lower right corner of your photo is distinctly blue. I'm guessing it's supposed to be white.

I've seen quite a few blue eggs and I consider my ameraucanas to have a nice blue shade, but I've never seen one that I believe to be pure blue with no other hue to it - including the ones I see on my monitors showing your eggs. I think that's all sandhill preservation is saying.

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[TimG]

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When I move this picture so that the 11:00 egg borders my blue windows bar at the bottom of my screen, the egg looks to have a green tint. (Note my trouble with truck color, before you take this too seriously.) As someone else pointed out, the paper towel in the bottom right of your pictures appears blue, even when moved adjacent to the blue windows bar -- more blue than the egg.

 

[speckledhen]

Who laid that pink egg in the center???

In the center of my basket is a Buff Orpington egg. That comes from my Nugget, who came from hinkjc's eggs. It is the pinkest egg laid by any of my birds.

McSpin, I realize we are dealing with monitors, etc, but that first couple of eggs were extremely deep blue, so that is a pretty close representation of Nora's egg shade. Even though the intensity has faded some, the shade is still the same. Now, the bluish tint on the paper towel on the right corner could be from my camera itself, which could have intensified the color. Sometimes the white paper towels aren't exactly white, either. I posted that more to show that it was blue without green, not that it was that deep blue, necessarily. The picture was not adjusted by me, though.​

 

[McSpin]

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Yes, I know that's why you posted. I posted explaining why it doesn't look pure blue to me. I'm an advanced photographer and have studied digital photography fairly extensively. I'm absolutely sure that what I'm seeing on my monitors is not what you're seeing in person. Your egg appears a shade of blue, not blue. The paper towel is bright blue on all three of my monitors.

I have the same opinion that sandhill preservation has. It's based on what I've seen so far. There may be pure blue eggs out there, but I'm quite certain that most pure breed ameraucanas don't produce them. My point in this thread is that your photos don't prove it, because digital photography is anything but reliable as far as color goes.

 

[McSpin]

I thought I should add, that the green egg in your photo is not green. The brown eggs are not brown and the pink egg is not pink. They are all shades that in some cases aren't even really close to what we commonly call them.

In my opinion, when a hue is closer to blue than green, call it blue. That's what I would call yours (and mine). It's got a ways to go before I would call it pure blue (depending on far off the photo I'm seeing is from real life).

 

[speckledhen]

That hen is the only Ameraucana I have who lays what I see as true blue eggs. Men and women see differently, as well, as witnessed by my own husband and I disagreeing about what color my coops are-they are greenish-gray and he says just gray and he is an artist.

I had gray paint mixed to go on my house that purposefully had no blue tint in it (I dont like blue houses, even gray-blue, LOL) so I place eggs against the house to guage color sometimes. All other Ameraucanas I own do lay greenish-blue eggs and my older EE hen lays mint green. On my monitor, the paper towel shows only the slightest tinge of bluish white. You'd really have to see an egg in person and have a yardstick by which to measure to really get the true color, I think you'd agree with. You don't have to agree, but you can see the blue egg near the green egg of one of my EE girls so you can see the difference in comparing one to the other. Maybe our terminology is just bumping heads, McSpin.

You dont have to agree about the colors. Maybe my own eyes are off, who knows?


Anyway, this is neither here nor there. I have Ameraucanas from Cree Farms in Washington and I have a couple of EEs as well from other sources. Egg color, blue or green, isn't really the true issue of the thread here. And I'd like to get back on track with the OPs original question. Certainly, whatever lays a brown egg qualifies as an EE.