Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Cockatrice6420]

Oh, I can't forget the ducks. I'll have fertile cayuga x blue Indian runner and Khaki Campbell x bir.

 

[Chickielady]

This has potential for major coolness... I wonder what happens when an aracauna breeds an ameracauna? An ararmaracauna?

Ameraucanas are already about half Aracauna.
So you'd more than likely get weird (some rumps, some no rumps) Ameraucanas.
Fun to breed to a dark brown layer & get OEs, though...

 

[Cockatrice6420]

Ameraucanas are already about half Aracauna.
So you'd more than likely get weird (some rumps, some no rumps) Ameraucanas.
Fun to breed to a dark brown layer & get OEs, though...

The roos like my welsummer, but the bcm hens seem to like to stick to their own. I think they need some convincing.

 

[Chickielady]

I've been told it's technically an EE

Actually, it would still lay a very nice blue egg.

BUT, an Am or Araucana
************Bred to a light brown layer, you'd get light green eggs = EE
************Bred to a dark brown layer, you'd get OEs
Such as a BCM----, so the blue egg is coated with dark brown pigment, making it olive green.
so definition of an Easter Egger is an Am or Araucana bred to a light brown layer, such as an Orpington.
EEs lay a minty green egg.
This is due to the blue egg coated with light brown pigment.

Interestingly, the brown in EEs and OEs can quite often be washed off, exposing the blue underneath. The EE or OE egg, cracked open, reveals the interior of the egg is beautiful blue, as the Ameraucana & Araucana makes an egg in which the blue pigment is through & through the egg's calcium, whereas the EE & OEs are blue eggs, coated on the outside with various shades of brown.
Dark egg layers (like Marans) lay basically a white egg (through & through) and as the egg travels down the vaginal canal, it is coated with degrees of brown according to the hen's breed.
Hope this helps.

 

[Chickielady]

HOW IS EVERYONE ?
I been gone, busy & doc appts & such.
Just downloaded windows 10, so far I like it...so far....

Hope you all are doing good !!

 

[Chickielady]

There are 3 kinds of people on this world. Those who are good at math. And those who aren't.

 

[Rod-T]

[COLOR=333333]There are 3 kinds of people on this world. Those who are good at math. And those who aren't.[/COLOR]

I think you ment 4 kinds of people. .lol

 

[Chickielady]

I think you ment 4 kinds of people. .lol

 

[Chickielady]

Why does it take pirates so long to say the alphabet? They get lost at "c."

 

[Chickielady]

ok, I have an extra GORGEOUS Lavender Orpington Cockerel....anyone interested give my cage a shake.
I am getting about 12 eggs a day from my spring hatch, which is about 30 pullets...so any day now....

I am SO HAPPY it is fall, and rainy, and not dry & HOT any longer.
Hopefully the weather egst back to normal, with a good downpour every week. year round (

) PLEEEZE !!

How is everyone else ?