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[CityGirlintheCountry]

Nope. They would make more EEs though. To get an olive egger you need one parent to be a welsummer or a maran. Both of those breeds lay a dark chocolate colored egg. The welsummer eggs lean toward terracotta and the maran eggs lean towards eggplant, but they are both really dark.

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

I got my 2 EE chicks from a feed store. It said they were Ameraucanas, but their already-developed flight feathers do not carry Ameraucana coloring

 

[speckledhen]

I can't tell in the pic, but if one has more of a single ridge than three rows of bumps/peas, she may not be pure for pea comb. Not every pea comb is exactly alike, either.

 

[lovinlife]

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Eggplant? Purple?
To me, Marans eggs look more burnt orange and the welsummer is more terracotta (brick orange).

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

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Eggplant? Purple?
To me, Marans eggs look more burnt orange and the welsummer is more terracotta (brick orange).

Maybe I have just seen weird maran eggs.

They seem almost black with that eggplant underlayer.

 

[mystus808]

That would be sick to have eggplant eggs... if they get huge someone might think they are eggplants

 

[FuzzyButtsFarm]

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[Liamm_1]

my 2 cents:
Screw Ameraucanas, I love my beautiful, randomly colored, unique EE's

 

[magicpigeon]

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Yeah, screw silkies too! I'm sick of treating them when they have scaly leg mites the feathers...ugh..

 

[speckledhen]

Feed stores just label the birds whatever the hatchery labels them. If no one is knowledgeable about the various breeds, they don't correct it. I had the hardest time convincing a store that their brooder full of "Domineckers" (surely the hatchery didn't say that!) was really Barred Rocks. Every one had a single comb and even being someone who used to breed them and showing the difference in one of their books didn't sway the woman behind the counter.