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[CoffeeCow]

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luckily, i have some

these are 4 or 5 days old pics

they aren't always "chipmunk" colored

 

[Fowl97]

They Are Soo Cool Im Like Obsessed With The Colored Eggs I Want Like Blue Or Green The Most. I Saw The Chicks There Last Year And They Said They Were Americaunas But They Had Green Legs And Looked Like The Ones Above So Im Hoping They Have Them Again. Also Hard To Sex Right?!


The People At The Store Are Extremly Nice And Rescue Aniamals And Last Time I Was There A Homing Pigon Was There That They Were Feeding Because He Would Take Off If Somone Tried To Get It. I Am Guessing They Just Dont Know The Proper Names

 

[CoffeeCow]

no harder to sex than any other chicken... if an egg comes out, its a pullet

you couldn't tell by looking, but the 3rd pic is my rooster.
here is what he looks like now

 

[Fowl97]

the ones in the background are the hens correct? and he is cool im horriable at sexing ill have to post pics in spring for me its always just a 50/50 shot

 

[rungirl]

I have 4 EE and they are my best layers. Their eggs are bigger than my Orpingtons and they lay almost every day. I'd get them again in a heartbeat!

 

[Illia]

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Ameraucanas do not lay smaller eggs most of the time. In fact, they lay a medium to large egg. Easter Eggers lay a medium to large egg as well.

As stated before, it depends where and who you get your Easter Eggers from. Some are bad layers, some are really good. Some often have genetic set backs and defects, some don't.

Since Ameraucanas are bred with a goal, in most cases, they lay a medium to large egg, are good layers, and should always lay at least a teal colored egg, if not a true blue color.


But, it is indeed true, feedstores and hatcheries sell Easter Eggers, no matter what they say. If someone has any shred of doubt if their "Americauna" is actually such breed, or if the owner does not know what an EE really is, . . . They have an Easter Egger.

I will say from experience, there are hatcheries who produce terrible Easter Eggers and hatcheries who produce better ones..

 

[chkinut]

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Ameraucanas do not lay smaller eggs most of the time. In fact, they lay a medium to large egg. Easter Eggers lay a medium to large egg as well.

As stated before, it depends where and who you get your Easter Eggers from. Some are bad layers, some are really good. Some often have genetic set backs and defects, some don't.

Since Ameraucanas are bred with a goal, in most cases, they lay a medium to large egg, are good layers, and should always lay at least a teal colored egg, if not a true blue color.


But, it is indeed true, feedstores and hatcheries sell Easter Eggers, no matter what they say. If someone has any shred of doubt if their "Americauna" is actually such breed, or if the owner does not know what an EE really is, . . . They have an Easter Egger.

I will say from experience, there are hatcheries who produce terrible Easter Eggers and hatcheries who produce better ones..

well, which ones would you say produce terrible EE and which ones produce good ones? (in your opinion)

 

[colowyo0809]

We got our EE from Murdoch's, who get all their birds from a hatchery (I don't know which one). They had her labeled as an Americauna, but since I had already found this site before hand I was pretty sure she was an EE

Especially with the willow green legs. She lays one light blue egg pretty much every day. I think we get a blue egg every 4-6 days a week. And, she's nicely fertile

We've hatched three eggs out of her

 

[CoffeeCow]

@ Illia,

I am just speaking from my experience, My ee's lay larger eggs than my BO and my 2 Delawares.
I am not sure if this is common to all ee's, but it is to mine.

 

[Illia]

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But that's my point. . . You don't have Ameraucanas to back up your statement, which some people may take seriously.

In my experience, Murray McMurray is the WORST hatchery to get EE's from. I've heard of whole feedstores, scores of customers, and myself included, who've received weak birds (I'm not talking chicks, I'm talking adult birds) terrible layers, prolapsing hens, curled toes, crooked beaks, badly formed bodies that create a "waddling" gate, short lifespan, etc.

My only current EE hen has a wry tail, three crooked toes, she almost never lays eggs and if she does, they come out either as goop or as HUGE porous things, her vent gets dirty when she does lay eggs, she's got an oddly shaped body, weird legs that make her have to waddle. . . . But I still love her and support her through life.

My other Murray McMurray EE's either were given away or died early. The ones that were given away had severely crooked and curled toes.


I hear a lot of good about Ideal Hatchery EE's though.