So who layed the blue egg????

[Illia]

Easter Eggers can lay blue eggs. Just because a bird lays a blue egg doesn't make it a purebred, considering there are TWO breeds that lay blue eggs.

That is an Easter Egger and yes, she's likely your blue egg layer.

 

[chickee]

My white EE laid her first egg today and it is the same beautiful blue as your girls

But her beardless white EE sister lays an olive green egg

 

[nuttyredhead]

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What makes you say EE? She looks perfectly ameraucana to me. I just thought EEs laid green or mint colored eggs and the pure ones laid blue. Am I misinformed?

The color of her beak is blue. They are supposed to be just white.

Her beak is white! It is dark ( i thought it was grey, could be bluish) at the base, but the rest of the beak is white. Does that mean anything?

 

[Illia]

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The color of her beak is blue. They are supposed to be just white.

Her beak is white! It is dark ( i thought it was grey, could be bluish) at the base, but the rest of the beak is white. Does that mean anything?

What color are her legs?

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

I DO BLUE TOO

 

[nuttyredhead]

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Her beak is white! It is dark ( i thought it was grey, could be bluish) at the base, but the rest of the beak is white. Does that mean anything?

What color are her legs?

Very dark greyish, almost black. She is a beautiful chicken!

 

[punky rooster]

Where did you get her?

 

[nuttyredhead]

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From a member here, who got her from a neighbor.

 

[roocrazy]

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What makes it an easter egger why cant it be a pet quality ameraucana?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

 

[Illia]

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What makes it an easter egger why cant it be a pet quality ameraucana?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

It could be. In fact it could very likely be a real Ameraucana, telling by the described leg color.

Easter Eggers on the other hand cannot be "pet quality" Ameraucanas because in most cases they simply are not even related to the full. That is like complaining why Araucanas cannot be tail-less, pet quality Ameraucanas. Sure, they have similarities and may be related many many decades ago, but you must consider leg color, body type, plumage color, breeding goals, etc.

A pet quality Ameraucana would be one simply of poor quality. Like my Blue Wheatens for example. . . An Easter Egger on the other hand may look like an Ameraucana to the untrained eye and may lay colored eggs like one too, but it in most cases has different color of skin, legs, plumage color, and sometimes is missing the muffs/beard, pea comb, similar body type, etc. A lot of Easter Eggers are mutts. That's different from being a pet quality of a purebred breed.