I had to ask my husband because I wasn’t sure. They were in a pen with a Speckled Sussex rooster but then he moved them to a pen by themselves and cleaned them out for a couple of weeks before he put the Red Leghorn rooster with them and started collecting eggs. We have never had a hen to stay fertile by a previous rooster that long but I guess its possible?
I know for sure they can go 3 weeks and I've heard 4 weeks so...
We have tested it out and 2 weeks was the longest we have seen them stay fertile, but I don't doubt that is what happened. It is possible the hens weren't completely clean before he put the Red Leghorn rooster with them, and the Duckwing chicks are half Speckled Sussex. I will watch their leg color. If they are white legged, they are half speckled sussex. That actually makes more sense and gives me some relief then, because I couldn't understand how a Red Leghorn rooster over the Brown Leghorn hens could produce Duckwing looking chicks. Luckily, I have 2-3 more clutches of eggs in the incubator that hopefully are off the Red Leghorn.
Not as many as we usually do since I am in the middle of my practicum (clinical portion) of nurse practitioner school and I haven't been able to help my husband as much with the animals. The Sportsman is full now and we will hatch until he tells me to stop setting eggs. So we don't have a number to shoot for. I will just keep setting until he quits bringing me eggs to set. lol
Note even the clubs for Ameraucanas egg color cards have blue green eggs colors to match your eggs. My blues and Silvers lay nice blue eggs. My blacks I had where more on the green side.These chickens are constantly throwing us curveballs! Most Ameraucanas people sell are really Easter Eggers and lay green eggs. The pure lines that lay blue are harder to find. Which you already know, since you used to breed them. (I read that you used to breed them in this thread as Ive been reading through it). Your little Buckeye Easter Egger crosses are so cute!
I'm not knocking a blue-green egg laying bird. I love blue, blue-green, green, olive. I'm all about getting the different colored eggs. I may have been incorrect in stating that if a bird lays green, it isn't Ameraucana. That is only merely what I have heard, but I have never raised them aside from owning a couple here and there as layers over the years so I don't know what the breed requirements and standard or anything like that is for them. So if I was incorrect in my statement, I apologize.
Wow I did not know that. Huh, that's pretty neat. lol
