What breed is Anna? Lays green eggs.

[fancyfeathers38]

Well fancy feathers...what ever breeds she is made her one BEAUTIFUL looking girl! Keep her safe and out of harm and enjoy her. Since all of us Americans have not a clue to what you really have down under it is hard to speculate on what breeds are in her mix. EE for sure..but the pink CLEAN legs are?????I would be guessing some sort of RECESSIVE silkie gene somewhere along the line / just enuf to cause the silkie feathers but NO 5th toe dark skin etc etc...
If you are planning on breeding her, I would try an EE type and see what you get? She would be SO much fun to breed and see what happens....Love Miss Hen she is sure a keeper...

Thankyou! She really is a great hen. She absolutely refuses to lay in the eggboxes and her little green eggs keep popping up everywhere. She is the most adventurous out of my flock and leads the hens into all sorts of mischief.

I'm sure everyone here would be exited to know that I am going to try breeding Anna with my splash Ameraucana roo. Any ideas on what I will get? It will be interesting to see if the chicks have silkie feathers. I'll keep you posted.

 

[Kerrigirl]

She's an EE. Her feet aren't slate, and she lays green (not blue)... she doesn't meet the Ameraucana standards, therefore, she's an EE.

She's not a f1 silkie cross. Her feathers are silkied, her shanks are pink, no crest, no extra toes.

She may be an f2 silkie cross, if both parents were silkie crosses, she may have inherited the silkie feather gene from both of them. I do not know about silkie genetics, just a guess...

 

[grammanenan]

I have a CochinXGray Partridge Silkie roo who fathered chicks out of my purely white Silkie flock because I lost my roo over the winter. ALL of the chicks are perfect white silkies with 5 toes and YELLOW skin!!! His momma was a pure white cochin, the daddy gray/red partridge. He looks like a black/red cochin with a fluffier tail. I have 5 more hatching tonight, it will be interesting to see if this hatch is the same...
I rehomed him last week because I have several silkies growing out now, and more to hatch. I should be able find a roo in the bunch.
He went to live with the Ameraucana laying hens (I sold them because they were killing songbirds landing in the chicken feed and I didn't want them attacking the chicks who are now turned loose in the backyard during the day).

 

[grammanenan]

Yep, just as I thought would happen - the 5 'Silchens' are all white with a little smut in their backs from the grandpa gray partridge silkie - fully feathered legs and feet with 5 toes and YELLOW skin!!!

 

[fallenleeves]

Whatever she is, it's definitely cute
So pretty!

 

[rich1991]

We've had Anna since she was a chick and was sold to us as an Americauna (sorry if that's not spelled right), but as she grew it was apparent she wasn't a purebred due to the Silkie like feathers that she has. She Lays Green eggs.

Any ideas to what she is?

 

[rich1991]

she got to be ee they lay green eggs

 

[Dorthia]

Nice hen, must feel so lucky to have her.

 

[shannonh]

We've had Anna since she was a chick and was sold to us as an Americauna (sorry if that's not spelled right), but as she grew it was apparent she wasn't a purebred due to the Silkie like feathers that she has. She Lays Green eggs.

Any ideas to what she is?

She is a Easter egger known as a amercona

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

She is a Easter egger known as a amercona

For clarity sake, and because this bit of misinformation is such an issue with regards to breed id, Ameraucana and Easter Egger are not one and the same. Easter Eggers are often misrepresented as Ameraucana, but they are two entirely different things.