Really need help to figure out what type of chickens I have new pics

[schellie69]

I showed someone who knew chickens my bantams and they think that they are closer to Americans then EE's so I am looking into getting an American weaton roo to go with them so that they have the slate legs and light coloring I am thinking of starting to sell fertilized eggs just need the roo. lol

 

[cthrash1]

Your girls have slate legs? Or green? I think I missed something on the legs there... Let me go back through the thread. If you got them from a hatchery then they are EEs even if the legs are slate(EEs legs can be any color just most are green)...no hatcheries sell pure Ams, but because EEs carry the blue egg gene they list them as such... If you got them from someone, then unless they specifically breed pure Ameraucanas to the standard then they are EEs. Even if they bred two different approved standard colors together it would still have to sell as an EE because the results will be non standard colors and won't breed true. If your girls have green legs and you get a pure Wheaten Am roo... You would still have to sell the hatching eggs as EE's and the chicks even if some come out with slate legs... There are too many people out there being sold EEs thinking they are getting AMs and Aras. The pic I posted earlier in your thread of my Liberty, she is more likely a mix of Am and Ara but she is still an EE because she is a mix and is nonstandard.

ETA: I can guarantee you will sell a lot of egg regardless

If I was still as deep into chickens as I used to be, I'd be buying them from you

Hubby would have a fit now though, I'm already 3 girls over my limit, but still don't have a boy so he don't mind the extra 3.

 

[schellie69]

my girls have slate legs and lay blue eggs, I know that i would have list them as EE's but would still like to get an American roo just because I like the lighter color of mine I am don't like the darker colored ones just my opinion so was going for the lighter colors, that is all. I found some selling a weaton blue/weaton American does that mean they are EE"s really I want to make sure before I spend money on something that is not what i think it is.

 

[cthrash1]

Isn't blue wheaten a standard color? Or is it just wheaten is standard? Let me go to the site and look...

 

[cthrash1]

Yes it is a standard color... Here is a link to the blue wheaten female bantam.
http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook_files/bluewheatenf.jpg
Wheaten female bantam
http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook_files/wheatenf.jpg
Blue Wheaten male
http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook_files/bluewheatenm.jpg
And wheaten male
http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook_files/wheatenm.jpg

If they were selling Wheaten mixed with Blue Wheaten(they could have just labeled their Blue wheatens that way), I believe being that it is two standard mixed colors then they would be EE's even with the two Wheaten colorings mixed, because that is what they are labeled say if you mixed a Blue Am with a Silver Am(EE because results aren't a pure color to the standard and won't breed true).

 

[cthrash1]

You may have to PM Shelleyd2008 when you start selling your eggs and show her pics of the eggs, She's the one I got Liberty from(she lays beautiful blue eggs), I think she was trying to get some Ams(or blue egg laying EEs) for breeding. And Liberty was the only female out of the ones that hatched so she gave her to me since I had already paid for one similar that ended up a male. Now she has some blue/black/splash Ams but I think her male female ratio is still off.

 

[schellie69]

could they be a mix between a white and Wheaten Ameraucana I just looked at the pictures and then at a white Ameraucan and mind have the tail of the wheaten and more white like the white one I know this makes them EE's but would like to have a good idea what they were before I decided if I want to breed or not, and do you think it would be a good idea for me to get a white or wheaten Ameraucana roo. I am new to this and am trying to learn as much as I can so I just wanted your opinion thank you for all your help with this.

 

[cthrash1]

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I think they would be closer to that mix than any other to make them lighter like that.

 

[schellie69]

should i get a white roo or a wheaten roo for breeding and do you think the eggs would sell?

 

[turtleblossom]

Yes the eggs would sell, just make sure that you sell them as Easter Egger eggs, to avoid confusion.