Welsummer laid a blue egg

[AustralorpsAU]

Not all of them...Ill post a picture of my Easter Egger hens...Hold on a second...Both lay blue eggs.
The two in the middle are Easter Eggers......

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The two in the middle are easter eggers and your welsummer is far left

 

[chickens really]

Quote: What?? The two in the middle are EEs the one on the left is a Danish Brown Leghorn and one the end at the right is a Speckled Sussex.....

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[AustralorpsAU]

What?? The two in the middle are EEs the one on the left is a Danish Brown Leghorn and one the end at the right is a Speckled Sussex.....

Cheers!

Sorry you are right.... i get them confused sometimes!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Cute pics! Welsumer are supposed to lay dark brown and have a straight comb. Yours was either mislabeled or mixed breed. Easter eggers would traditionally be two Ameraucana that bred and don't fit the standard, usually bearded with cheeks. The cheeks are called muffs. The tufts you are speaking of are from the Aracauna, seemingly more rare (that gene is deadly to chicks if they get 2 copies). These days though it seems people are calling EE anything with a blue egg gene mixed in the background. A lot of the olive eggers I see are clean faced. Colored eggs are fun.

Congrats on your new layer! I much rather get an egg of a different color than crowing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucana#/media/File:Araucana_hen_showing_ear_tufts.jpg

 

[junebuggena]

Easter eggers would traditionally be two Ameraucana that bred and don't fit the standard, usually bearded with cheeks.

Actually false. Easter Eggers are what the Ameraucana and Araucana breeds were bred from. Prior to the 1970s, there was no Araucana or Ameraucana breed standard. They were all called Araucana, but most where what is considered Easter Eggers today.

 

[chickens really]

Also false.....To keep it simple.....Ameruacana have muffs and beards no ear tufts....EEs are crosses from Ameruacanas..Can have beards and muffs.Olive Eggers are Easter Eggers ....Just a Different cross ....For example crossing a Copper Maran with a Blue Ameruacana will produce olive coloured eggs in their off spring....

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[junebuggena]

Most hatchery sourced Easter Eggers are not Ameraucana crosses. Hatchery stock predates the creation of the Ameraucana breed. The Ameraucana was created from Easter Egger type birds. Not the other way around.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I figured by putting that in there it would cause some kind of uprising.... I guess I meant that was my "traditional understanding".

Also, I think the blue egg could come from crosses like the cream legbar.

ETA: I am happy to be here for all the learning!

 

[Isaac 0]

We got are other easter egger labeled under araucana and didn't want it but im glad we got it

 

[chickens really]

I figured by putting that in there it would cause some kind of uprising.... I guess I meant that was my "traditional understanding".

Also, I think the blue egg could come from crosses like the cream legbar.

ETA: I am happy to be here for all the learning!

Please no Debates....
This is an Ameruacana Pullet that Is not of colour standard yet but is out of Show stock Ameruacanas...A few Canadian Breeders are trying to get more colours added to the Standard...

Anyways...Here is my most expensive Bird....

Cheers!