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I have a cockerel who is "nearly" mature, he is crowing, he is getting frisky with the hens
no he isn't an Ameraucana, he's an Easter Egger .. but he is sure purty, and he is going to have to find a new home, I doubt that the neighbors will put up with crowing (will definitely get him out of here when we get back next week)
he's either a silver duckwing with gold leakage and dominant white, or a black breasted red with dominant white and gold leakage
not sure of my terminology here .. I don't have a pic to post yet, or I'd ask Illia
black/silver head and breast with white blotching on breast; gold bordered saddle and hackle feathers with teal in the saddle feathers
and now some "red leakage" coming through there too
mostly white wings with teal at the tips
teal and black iridescent tail feathers
pea comb, small red wattles, slate colored legs with a slight green tinge
clean faced
pleasant and "just one of the girls" most of the time, chest bumps the girls and is now starting to pursue just a bit
will occasionally eat out of my hand but mostly stays about 2 feet away
I'll try and talk to him again this week. He really likes the two EEs he has but I think the idea was to breed EEs from an Ameraucana rooster, to eventually replace the mix he has now (which I forgot includes a couple of SLWs and a GLW) with a green-and-blue laying flock. We're sort of opposites on how we got into this chicken thing, at least in that he's raised chicks for the most part, and also hatched some stuff, including the pheasants, and had an egg route before my few hens were even laying.
what I am hearing is that the hatchery chicks from Privett (which is where my lot came from, via Del's) -- usually lay green or blue eggs, and the roos of course would be carrying the blue egg gene ... he does have a triple-row pea comb which I understand means he DOES have that gene
though I haven't noticed any pictures on BYC of EEs with metallic blue-green feathers, which he has (and two of the girls have that color also in their neck-shawl area --- teal edged with rusty bronze .. noticeable really only in bright direct sunlight
also, what I'm reading is that some of the Ameraucanas are exhibiting "throw back" characteristics, and laying pink, olive, or tan eggs rather than the normal-for-them blue to minty green ... I guess it depends on how carefully the breedings were, back several generation
