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but EE and OEG dont have Yellow legs.
And neither do d'Uccles
FOLKS, First of all, EEs can have ANY color feathers, color legs, color beak, type of comb, bearded or non-bearded, feather footed or clean legged. IT DOESN'T MATTER. The one thing they have in common is that SOMEWHERE in their bloodline, they have an Ameraucana or Araucana. THAT IS IT.
It is SO frustrating that this topic has been beaten to death on this site and others, and yet, people just don't get it.
If you read the 'fine' print in the hatchery catalogs, most DO say that what they advertise as "Ameraucanas" are, in fact, Easter Eggers.
Yes, it is possible to get crossbreeds/mutts from hatcheries that are not EEs as well. It depends on the integrity and the flock management of the operation. I know of one such place that I have gotten dozens of birds from, and I have kept few because of their poor management practices.
I do know that my experience with McMurray has been all good and everything I have gotten from them has been what they said it was.
I can't give an opinion on Ideal, but there are threads on BYC that discuss just the quality of birds coming from them.
OP- That is/was a beautiful bird to look at. I am sorry that it may be impossible to find another one like him unless you know someone who has more just like him. However, I think you may be very hard pressed since he DOES appear to be a cross, and those can be tough to determine, especially out of a hatchery that has SO many different breeds. Your guess may be about as good as any.
As for that comb, it IS a pea comb, not all combs are a perfect example of what they SHOULD be. Rest assured, it is a pea comb.
I don't mean to be so harsh, but there is a lot of information available at your fingertips if you just research, people. And just because you may have once had a chicken of a certain breed that looked a certain way, or had a certain experience from one hatchery one time, doesn't give you much credibility in telling other people about theirs. Know what you are talking about before you lend advice. It is frustrating to others and to the people needing to know information when they get a bunch of bogus information thrown at them.
I don't know everything, and if I am wrong I will say so, as well as if I am not sure and have an opinion, I state it is my opinion.
Please Please Please KNOW your facts first, or at least don't make it sound like you think you know the answer when you clearly don't.
Sorry, but that is also wrong. I HAVE researched and I know that EEs didn't come from Ameraucana's, it is the other way around; Ameraucana chickens were bred from EEs. That means to qualify as an EE it does NOT have to have an Ameraucana or Araucana ancestor, it just has to have the blue egg laying gene somewhere in the line. Easter Eggers are actually related to the South American Quechua. Read this thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4878641 LOTS of good info here.
And, when I said it didn't look like a pea comb to me and compared it to my EEs combs, I wasn't meaning that every pea comb has to look like my birds, I was just saying that none of my birds have a pea comb that looks like that. I will concede that it could be a pea comb, but to me it has more of the look of all of the pictures of rosecombs that I have seen. No, I am not an expert, and I didn't say it IS a rosecomb, I just said that is what it looks like TO ME.
