I really like my Roy and the ones I sell to my customers are very popular. I get them from the Dunlaps hatchery here in Idaho, they sell them as Aruacana . . . My others came From a hatcehry in Tesxa called Extreme Game Birds, they call the Ameraucana. AND there are a lot of people who sell them right here on BYC!
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Here in some flocks of "araucana", in some farms exist that strange "wisp" on the feathers of neck's back. They call them "tusonas", (for "tusa". the hair the horses have)
This chick is 5 weeks old, hatched Halloween, from an olive egg. Mom is EE and dad is a Silver Penciled Plymouth Rock. I think she is beautiful! Black and white penciling, I believe, is starting to show.
Here are a couple more of my EEers ... one lays a nice pale green egg. I get one every day, but never more than one. I have 6 EEers ???? I also get a pinkish egg, and wonder if it is from an EEer.
Has anyone had any luck getting EE's from TSC? They list them as Amerucuana's on there site, but they are most likely EE's right? Also, when you breed EE does the egg coloration tend to go back towards brown i.e. is blue/green eggs a recessive trait?
When I get my first chicks I think I definitely want to try some EE's since they seem like they have so much wonderful variation.
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Here in some flocks of "araucana", in some farms exist that strange "wisp" on the feathers of neck's back. They call them "tusonas", (for "tusa". the hair the horses have)
I think most of our's here do not have that wisp or if they seem to that it probably came from silkies being crossed in. We have very few "real" Araucana breeders here and none come from hatcheries, which is where most of our EE's come from.
It's great to here from someone so far away, thanks for sharing . . . and WELCOME!!!