The True Truth: How to tell an Easter Egger from an Ameraucana. Even if you think you have an Ameraucana, do check!

[TheOddOneOut]

One just squatted again! Whohoo!

 

[EmmaRainboe]

One just squatted again! Whohoo!

Colored eggys! So exciting!

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Colored eggys! So exciting!

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

My EE is identical to the last one posted in the OP.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

My EE is identical to the last one posted in the OP.

Cool!

 

[Nigel27]

Thank you very much! I breed one of my ayam cemani roosters with some of my araucana hens and this was the result. My pullets lay every time different shade eggs. Some times are more dark and some other more light, almost white. Only the fibromelanistic hens have this ability. They are very friendly and social. All parts of their body are total black. I think it is one of the most interesting araucana mixes. Anyone who has these breeds I suggest to do a test and will not regret it

I’m trying this right now! So excited

I thought they were a type of olive egger? Because they only lay green eggs?

I had always thought that OEs are seperate because they are bred specifically for one egg color, whereas EEs can lay tan, pale-bright blue, mint-olive green, and pinky brown.

I guess we just have different definitions of “Easter egger”.

“olive eggers” are an f1 generation cross and if you breed them their offspring will be “Easter eggers” so they don’t breed true. I think the same goes for green queen. This works because the blue gene is dominant so if you breed a homozygous blue layer to a homozygous brown layer(darker for OEs lighter for green queens) all of the offspring have consistent same egg genes, (allowing for marketing (similar to Cornish cross)but they only carry one copy so their offspring could have any combo making them EE

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

What do you all think about the hen on the far left?

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Do you have leg pics?
What color does she lay, and where did you get her?

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Do you have leg pics?
What color does she lay, and where did you get her?

She isn't mine yet. This is what the lady sent me. She lays blue eggs.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Also there’s an egg there.