I have some EE's and some rumpless and tuffed Araucanas

[Starla]

what would I get if I bred a Araucana roo to EE hens? You think it would be ok?

The reason I would do that is, I have four rumpless and tuffed and two of them are roo's and I love them both.... I had thought I would keep them and use one of the roos with my EE hens. Right now they are all way to young..but I am trying to figure out who to keep and who not to, by spring!

Thanks

 

[HBuehler]

You will get some rumpless EE's and some pretty neat tufted beards-for lack of better description beards like a EE but with more tuft to it.. we have some here

They are the ones everyone always spots.Several of ours came from a breeder that had pure Araucana's true Ameraucana's and EE's so he did some real interesting and pretty crosses..My son also got himself a true Ameraucana roo Any spelling errors are due to me only being on my first cup of coffee

not because I don't know the difference in the breeds

 

[LilPeeps]

EEs are mutts and breeding a mutt with a pure breed technically makes the offspring mutts as well, so they'd still be considered EEs. You will likely get some pretty interesting looking birds though.

 

[Starla]

yes I knew EE's are mutts/mixed bred, but I am mostly interested in egg color from the EE's.

To be honest I don't know if my young chicks are Ameraucana or EE's the guy called them Ameraucana....and they are bearded but I don't know that much about all those breeds.

I have read a lot about Araucanas so, I feel like I kinda know a little about that breed. And well, of course I can assume they are full blooded because they are rumpless and tuffed

Mainly I wanted to make sure that my EE's or whatever they are still lay colored eggs by breeding them to my Araucana roo.

Thanks for the input! It is helpling!!

Starla

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

I'm thinking of doing a similar cross. I recently obtained a pair of rumpless-Iguess EE's because there are no tuffs. I am going to put a few of my EE pullets with the pair and see what comes out. As far as egg color ,I don't think being an Aracauna,Americanna,or EE guarantees,blue eggs. I know in my EE's it has taken almost four years of culling to finally get only birds that lay blue eggs(Keeping fingers crossed-LOL). I am just wondering how dominate the rumplessness is. Hopefully it is very dominate!