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dheltzel said:
The PA Blue Eggers look so much like a purebred Black Ameraucana I stopped raising them in my pens to avoid confusion. Black feathers, dark legs, muffs and a beard.
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That sounds almost exactly like what my olive egger looks like.

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Sefirothe said:
That sounds almost exactly like what my olive egger looks like.
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Not surprising at all. Most breeders make Olive Eggers by crossing an Ameraucana with a Marans. Hatcheries often use Cuckoo Marans pullets with an Ameraucana cockerel to make them black sexlinks. I use California Greys (white eggs) with the Ameraucana to make black sexlinks that lay light blue eggs. I make Olive Eggers with 2 autosexing breeds, Legbars and Welbars, and they are even easier to sex than the black sexlinks, plus I get 2 colors (silver and gold) of pullet chicks that I can sell.

My PA Blue Eggers will be very similar to your black OE in appearance.
 
dheltzel said:
@TillyPeeps has had these in the past (Blue Egg Laying Black Sexlinks). She might have a photo. She was instrumental in me bringing these back, she kept asking for them every year.
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Actually, Brownie was the few brown sexlink chick you made from Wheaten Ameraucana x Cal. grey. At that time, all your PA blacks were boys, so I got her. the I only have her photos in my old computer and need to dig them out. She grew up being mostly black with some brown feathers around her neck. She does look like an Ameraucana but with a very different color pattern. Yeah, she was my son's best buddy and they always stay together when outside. Super sweet girl. Although, Pepsi the black ameraucana is my favorite "puppy".
 
Lelanae said:
Hello!
I have neighbors circling my house waiting for eggs lol! Dennis, what pullet
chicks do you have? My absolute favorite chicken is a grey Amerucana I got from you.
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The Ameraucanas are not sexable as chicks, but the PA Blue Eggers are half Ameraucana. I can figure out getting chicks for you whenever you want them.
 
dheltzel -- how are your Genetic Hackle roosters? I have never owned a rooster and never really considered it, but I am curious about them, as everything seems so peaceful in your video with multiple hens and roosters. He would be, for the most part, a pet, a sort of mascot for my father, who is a fly fisher. Although we are semi-rural and you can hear other flocks around us, I want to have open eyes as to the noise of owning a rooster and whether or not it is likely that our hens' attitude towards us would change with a rooster around, as well as the rooster's disposition itself.
I realize that every animal is different. I am not asking for any guarantees. But more than simply owning multiple roosters, you know what sorts of animals your line tends to produce. I can not free range my hens everyday -- free time is a special treat. They spend the majority of their time in their secure run. I am not looking for a rooster to provide protection or even fertile eggs, just for it to be another living being to enjoy. Open to chick or older, if there was a grown own that met personality standards but not breeding ones.
Right now I am just considering the Hackle because of the "tie" to my father. If that doesn't work out, perhaps if the circumstances present themselves, one day we will adopt a rescue rooster.
 

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