My EE's are laying BROWN EGGS!

[cybercat]

Ameraucans have 7 colors that are allowed one is black.

 

[dwegg]

Yes I was also naive to this as well until i got on here. But i already bought my two EE (drove 1 half hours to get them!) I wanted blue egg layers but my two lay beautiful green eggs and I am so excited anyway.
I agree people should not call them anything but EE unless they are pure breed when they are selling them...BUT the EE are fantastic and beautiful birds in their own right!

 

[Amethyste]

Yup EE's are lovely birds...but they cannot be relied on for the coloured eggs. You just have to hope!! I know of several that laid brown and white/cream coloured. So far mine have all laid green eggs.../knock on wood I am hoping that the two little EE I have now will lay some sort of blue/green/pink eggs.

I know a family near by whose kids were so upset over not getting green/blue eggs form their ee's

Every single one of those 4 silly EE's laid brown eggs. I felt so bad for them!!

 

[Akane]

Comb has nothing to do with egg color except that certain breeds have certain types of combs and lay certain colors of eggs. It's not the comb causing the egg color it's just they happen to be bred for those 2 genes. Your green laying EE is technically laying brown eggs too they just also have blue over them. The blue gene plus brown genes equals green eggs. It's the pure white eggs that can give you sky blue eggs when you add the gene. Your EEs are probably the same mix of brown layers plus a parent carrying the blue gene. Unless at least one parent has 2 blue genes you will always get some offspring that don't lay colored eggs. If both parents have 1 copy you get 75% and if only one parent has it you have 50/50 odds. So you can hatch chicks from blue eggs and not get blue eggs when they start laying. Most hatcheries aren't going to keep track and just cull the hens that don't lay colored eggs without knowing if the roo carries the gene or if the hen has 2 copies of the gene.

I got my bantam EE from someone who knew her roo had 2 copies of blue egg gene so even the chicks I hatched from brown eggs laid a shade of green. I kept 3 hens that lay sky blue.

 

[mags2009]

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Oh oh!!! We have 3 EE's from Meyer's and one is VERY close to laying, she started to squat last week. Anyway, I HOPE HOPE HOPE they lay green eggs!!!!

 

[Nostalchic]

I have 10 Ameraucanas from McMurray's, and they are reliable layers of rose/pink to olive to clear turquoise/blue eggs. Since it's the blue/green eggs that most people are hoping for when they order these chickens, I would hope that even large commercial hatcheries would be selecting stock for this. I guess my experience suggests that McMurray's does - not sure about other people's experience but I've been happy.