The NEW Crazy 24hr AUCTION thread

[Phage]

Hatching Eggs Auction

Starts: Wednesdy, March 26, 2014
Ends: Sunday, March 30, 2014

6 Black/Blue Cochin Bantam Hatching Eggs - Will add extras if available

Bidding Starts at $1 plus $12 shipping

What color is your cochin Cockerel?

 

[wolfiemum]

If you can't find any in time, go yo your local Trader Joe's or any store that sells fertile eggs for eating.  My SaveMart grocery sellls them here in Paradise, CA from Rock Island Egg Farm.  Try to find one marked that it was packed in the last 10 days and give it a shot.  Lots of folks are having some success with them.

We don't have trader joes and I don't know if anyone sells fertile eggs for eating. I will see if there are any organic type of food stores in Regina, I know Moose Jaw doesn't have any. Thanks for the idea!

 

[Phage]

Quote: If you have whole foods in your area they may also have fertile eggs. I have had pretty good success with both theirs and TJ's eggs.

 

[wolfiemum]

We don't have trader joes and I don't know if anyone sells fertile eggs for eating. I will see if there are any organic type of food stores in Regina, I know Moose Jaw doesn't have any. Thanks for the idea!

If you have whole foods in your area they may also have fertile eggs. I have had pretty good success with both theirs and TJ's eggs. 

Canadian stores don't sell fertile eggs unless I can find a ma and pa type of organic store in Regina. Lol

 

[Pozees]

SOLD mzstre Royal Palm eggs

 

[ChickDancer]

I guarantee he is Ameraucana. Would not trick people, I believe tricking people just to sell is wrong. I also have Black and Blue Cochin Bantams I could do 6 Ameraucana and 6 Cochin.

I don't think you're trying to trick people. But I do think whoever sold the eggs to you was not educated about the breed, and didn't sell you correctly-labeled birds.

Here's the deal with Ameraucanas:

Chickens who carry the blue egg gene are often always mislabeled as ameraucanas. The blue egg gene is dominant, and will usually be passed from a parent to the chick. If one parent is a blue-egg layer and the other is a brown-egg layer, you'll actually get GREEN eggs. If you cross it with a super-dark brown layer such as a Marans, you'll get olive colored eggs. Thus any bird who is not considered a purebred ameraucana is called an "easter egger".

But there's one caveat that throws everyone off. A chicken can be purebred ameraucana blood, but not actually be considered purebred ameraucana. Ameraucanas have to "breed true to their color". Meaning if you cross a silver ameraucana with a wheaten ameraucana and get some hodge-podge color that isn't listed on the website, your chicken isn't an ameraucana - even though BOTH parents are. One good example is blue. Two blue ameraucanas, when crossed with each other, create black, splash, and blue. SPLASH is not actually considered an accepted color for the breed. So even though both parents are purebred blue amerauacanas, and they are both accepted color varieties, those splash-colored chicks are NOT. So they are called easter eggers. They are purebred ameraucana blood, but they don't match any of the accepted colors, so they are easter eggers.

Thus "easter egger" is any bird that carries the blue egg gene, but does NOT match the breed standard for ameraucana.

The problem now is that Ameraucana is the most popular blue egg breed in North America. So anytime anyone sees an egg with blue tint (to include green), they know the chicken probably has Ameraucana blood, and so that's what they label it. Even if it's mixed breed, people automatically think "ameraucana" when they see the blue or green color. I go to an auction down in my neck of the woods where I can take a dozen eggs marked "easter egger" and the auctioneer will flat out call it "Ameraucana" when he announces it. They're not ameraucana, because the eggs are various shades of GREEN, not blue. But he calls them Ameraucana anyway, because that's what he recognizes as a blue-tint egg layer.

I'm going to leave it there for now for simplicity, but keep in mind that Ameraucana also isn't the only blue egg layer out there. But being the most popular has now caused all sorts of mixed breeds to pick up the label, SIMPLY because they carry the blue egg gene.

 

[wolfiemum]

I don't think you're trying to trick people. But I do think whoever sold the eggs to you was not educated about the breed, and didn't sell you correctly-labeled birds.


Here's the deal with Ameraucanas:


Chickens who carry the blue egg gene are often always mislabeled as ameraucanas. The blue egg gene is dominant, and will usually be passed from a parent to the chick. If one parent is a blue-egg layer and the other is a brown-egg layer, you'll actually get GREEN eggs. If you cross it with a super-dark brown layer such as a Marans, you'll get olive colored eggs. Thus any bird who is not considered a purebred ameraucana is called an "easter egger".


But there's one caveat that throws everyone off. A chicken can be purebred ameraucana blood, but not actually be considered purebred ameraucana. Ameraucanas have to "breed true to their color". Meaning if you cross a silver ameraucana with a wheaten ameraucana and get some hodge-podge color that isn't listed on the website, your chicken isn't an ameraucana - even though BOTH parents are. One good example is blue. Two blue ameraucanas, when crossed with each other, create black, splash, and blue. SPLASH is not actually considered an accepted color for the breed. So even though both parents are purebred blue amerauacanas, and they are both accepted color varieties, those splash-colored chicks are NOT. So they are called easter eggers. They are purebred ameraucana blood, but they don't match any of the accepted colors, so they are easter eggers.


Thus "easter egger" is any bird that carries the blue egg gene, but does NOT match the breed standard for ameraucana.


The problem now is that Ameraucana is the most popular blue egg breed in North America. So anytime anyone sees an egg with blue tint (to include green), they know the chicken probably has Ameraucana blood, and so that's what they label it. Even if it's mixed breed, people automatically think "ameraucana" when they see the blue or green color. I go to an auction down in my neck of the woods where I can take a dozen eggs marked "easter egger" and the auctioneer will flat out call it "Ameraucana" when he announces it. They're not ameraucana, because the eggs are various shades of GREEN, not blue. But he calls them Ameraucana anyway, because that's what he recognizes as a blue-tint egg layer.


I'm going to leave it there for now for simplicity, but keep in mind that Ameraucana also isn't the only blue egg layer out there. But being the most popular has now caused all sorts of mixed breeds to pick up the label, SIMPLY because they carry the blue egg gene.

Thanks you. That was incredibly interesting and educational. I am a newbie so I am like a sponge right now lol.

 

[apteryx]

I don't think you're trying to trick people. But I do think whoever sold the eggs to you was not educated about the breed, and didn't sell you correctly-labeled birds.

Here's the deal with Ameraucanas:

Chickens who carry the blue egg gene are often always mislabeled as ameraucanas. The blue egg gene is dominant, and will usually be passed from a parent to the chick. If one parent is a blue-egg layer and the other is a brown-egg layer, you'll actually get GREEN eggs. If you cross it with a super-dark brown layer such as a Marans, you'll get olive colored eggs. Thus any bird who is not considered a purebred ameraucana is called an "easter egger".

But there's one caveat that throws everyone off. A chicken can be purebred ameraucana blood, but not actually be considered purebred ameraucana. Ameraucanas have to "breed true to their color". Meaning if you cross a silver ameraucana with a wheaten ameraucana and get some hodge-podge color that isn't listed on the website, your chicken isn't an ameraucana - even though BOTH parents are. One good example is blue. Two blue ameraucanas, when crossed with each other, create black, splash, and blue. SPLASH is not actually considered an accepted color for the breed. So even though both parents are purebred blue amerauacanas, and they are both accepted color varieties, those splash-colored chicks are NOT. So they are called easter eggers. They are purebred ameraucana blood, but they don't match any of the accepted colors, so they are easter eggers.

Thus "easter egger" is any bird that carries the blue egg gene, but does NOT match the breed standard for ameraucana.

The problem now is that Ameraucana is the most popular blue egg breed in North America. So anytime anyone sees an egg with blue tint (to include green), they know the chicken probably has Ameraucana blood, and so that's what they label it. Even if it's mixed breed, people automatically think "ameraucana" when they see the blue or green color. I go to an auction down in my neck of the woods where I can take a dozen eggs marked "easter egger" and the auctioneer will flat out call it "Ameraucana" when he announces it. They're not ameraucana, because the eggs are various shades of GREEN, not blue. But he calls them Ameraucana anyway, because that's what he recognizes as a blue-tint egg layer.

I'm going to leave it there for now for simplicity, but keep in mind that Ameraucana also isn't the only blue egg layer out there. But being the most popular has now caused all sorts of mixed breeds to pick up the label, SIMPLY because they carry the blue egg gene.

And on top this, many of the larger hatcheries add to the confusion by selling easter eggers as Ameraucanas or "americanas" even though in the description they go on to say that they will lay blue, green, pink or brown eggs.... Still nice chickens that are very appealing to may people due to the variety of egg colors, but not an Ameraucana

 

[Caitlin_VT]

Any current auctions? I am waiting on fertility testing, but I should be able to offer bantam Chocolate Orpington eggs soon!

 

[philyaw539]

What color is your cochin Cockerel?

He is Black. But has some white feathering. The chicks come out black and non of the White feathers.