I bought a cockerel chick from them.
Most reviews are positive ( granted, I didn’t go that far into them ) but one of the more negative review said they’re hen ended up laying brown eggs? Is that something possible with Ameraucanas? Like, could it be a random trait showing up from when one of the parent breed(s) were first crossed with the Araucana?
They could easily be crosses that look pure. I’ve crossed my pures (not from meyer) to some chickens and the offspring looks pure even though they really aren’t.
He’s gorgeous! He looks like the real deal. I have a black ameraucana cockerel I got from a local breeder but he has red leakage ( being optimistic here, hopefully it’s from him having red-brown in his linage ), so I was thinking about adding in a new cockerel. I’ll still be keeping my current boy, but I definitely don’t want to use him for breeding.
That is a possibility...you’d hope they’d have a little more integrity and not do something like that.....
Arucanas lay blue eggs. Ameraucana lay blue eggs. There should be no browns
Weren’t the Arucanas crossed with another breed to produce the Ameraucanas? I don’t imagine anyone knows what the other breed was. OR, did they only use the Arucana and just pick and chose traits from different birds of the same breed?
They were crossed in the beginning. But they still only lay blue eggs. There should be no brown genes
