So im starting an EE/Ameraucana/blue egg project

[char259]

These are my girls the day I got them - Nickle in the middle and Penny on the right. The roo turned out to be a 'challenge' and we had to take him back.

Maybe this is the wrong place to post their picture. Don't want to hijack! Let me know if it is and I'll delete it.

 

[draye]

Sounds alot like the project I'll be working on.

I have a pen of 10 Easter Eggers 3 or 4 different colors they are being breed to a Easter Egger roos (Blue/Red) (he has the sweetest disposition unlike most EE roos I;ve dealt with), the offspring of these will go to a Lavender Ameraucana roo (I have extra roos of this breed). The offspring of the Lav./EE will continue to go to blue egg producers, I really don't care which either Araucana or Ameraucana.

Mostly I'm just rtrying to have fun with my chickies.

 

[Roosterfry]

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No ur fine! Thanks for showing us your birds, I would put more of mine on here but my computer is down, and I do everything from my black berry

 

[draye]

No ur fine! Thanks for showing us your birds, I would put more of mine on here but my computer is down, and I do everything from my black berry

Are you still working on this project?

 

[Roosterfry]

I did give up on the original project, I ended up crossing that best white hen that layed a blue egg I had to a pure blue wheaten ameraucana, I used that offspring hen, who looked almost exactly like a pure wheaten hen to my black copper rooster to produce first generation olive eggers. Now I'm going to use the first generations OE to be bred back again to my black copper's this spring for F2 olive eggers!.

I did take the advice of picking a pure ameraucana type and working on them because there are so few breeders of them. I picked wheaten and blue wheaten ameraucanas, I baught stock from two different independent lines. One strain layed a smaller but very deep pigmented bluish aqua egg and had a lil problem with "stubs" but had Georges big facial muffs! The other lines had better feather color, as well as good muffs, also stubs but not as bad, and oddly layed a PURE blue egg that was very light in shade. I bred the two together over the summer and I have been making culls for stubs, feather color, skin color, and facial muffs. So far my remaining hens and roosters look great! I'm excited to see what this cross will lay of the pure light blue egg lines bred to the very darker aqua lines!

 

[TW1Kell]

THAT is a blue egg! I love Americaunas but usually get a rosey colored egg from my current hens. Is it common to get all rosey colored eggs from Amies? 1 hen actually lays in inordinate number of HUGE brownish white eggs that usually have double yolks, go figure. She's not too popular for the breeding aspect, but she sure is a champ at breakfast time! I want an olive green egg, and have 3 pullets and 3 roos that have "muffed out" in the past week. I hope one of these lil ladies (or all 3?!) give me my "green eggs and ham!" My Amies are my free rangers, at the moment, but I intend to pen the pairs to see what I get from them, after they start to lay. I love the way the Amies play around and follow me all over the farm, no matter what I'm doing at the moment. They love to follow me when I am tilling with my little tractor.

I understand your desire to breed to a specific feather and egg color, as I am currently trying to make a Seebright that is blue with black lacing. I have a crossbred blue hen that is laced, but it is not a hard black lacing. I have a Golden Seebright roo and am awaiting notification to pick up my Silver roo. It's a free ranger and the man has been trying to catch him for a week, now. I can catch my free rangers, anytime, with just a bit of feed and talking to them, and it's frustrating to have to wait. haha I would love to converse with you about your breeding results and would like to go towards all olive eggs. Would you be interested in sharing info, even if I were attempting a different end result?

 

[TW1Kell]

North Missippi?!!! (Spelled that way intentionally!) I live 45 minutes out of Tupelo, on the 'Bama state line! You are about to get a pm!