What breed is she?

[Searsmom]

One of my EE lays a very light cream colored egg, lighter than my orpingtons. She has a rose comb though. That's the trouble with EE - you never know what the parents were or what characteristics will show.

 

[KieksterChicken]

Unfortunately, if a bird doesn't lay a blue egg then it doesn't carry the blue egg gene and it's not an Easter Egger. So that will help narrow down the search..lol.

 

[Searsmom]

If it doesn't lay a blue egg, it's not an Ameraucana. If it looks like an Ameraucana but lays any other color, it's an Easter Egger. Most likely this one has come from multiple cross-breeding, so still went in the EE bin, while laying a pale egg. The one on the far left, compared with the one on the right which lays a green egg.


The colored lady below also lays a green egg, but no muff or beard - Easter Egger.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Unfortunately, if a bird doesn't lay a blue egg then it doesn't carry the blue egg gene and it's not an Easter Egger. So that will help narrow down the search..lol.

AMEN!

If it doesn't lay a blue egg, it's not an Ameraucana. If it looks like an Ameraucana but lays any other color, it's an Easter Egger. Most likely this one has come from multiple cross-breeding, so still went in the EE bin, while laying a pale egg. The one on the far left, compared with the one on the right which lays a green egg.


The colored lady below also lays a green egg, but no muff or beard - Easter Egger.

Wait, I'm confused. Are you saying there are Ameraucanas in these photos? Because there are not--only EEs.

 

[KieksterChicken]

If an Ameraucana or an Araucana are off their SOP in any way they are considered to be Easter Eggers because they carry the blue egg gene and lay blue eggs. An Easter Egger on the other hand is a crossbred and the only thing that makes it an Easter Egger is that it lays a blue egg and carries the blue egg gene. If a Rhode Island Red produced a blue egg it would be considered to be an Easter Egger too because it carries the blue egg gene. It's not breed, it's genes. If you have a bird that has Ameraucana, Araucana or Easter Egger parents but it doesn't produce a blue egg, it's not an Easter Egger. No blue egg gene, no blue eggs= not an Easter Egger. Sorry.

 

[Searsmom]

Chickens cannot lay green eggs without the blue egg gene. Easter Eggers can lay green, pink, blue - if the blue gene has been outbred too many times, you will end up with cream, brownish, etc. eggs. They can look like Ameraucana, but they will be Easter Eggers. Ameraucana are an APA breed and you can look up what the requirements are. Easter Eggers are everything from the reject Ameraucana to the extreme mutts. All of mine are Easter Eggers - there is no SOP for them.

 

[Searsmom]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/713062/blue-egg-genetics

This is a great thread that explains what happens when you breed a blue-egg layer to anything else.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Chickens cannot lay green eggs without the blue egg gene. Easter Eggers can lay green, pink, blue - if the blue gene has been outbred too many times, you will end up with cream, brownish, etc. eggs. They can look like Ameraucana, but they will be Easter Eggers. Ameraucana are an APA breed and you can look up what the requirements are. Easter Eggers are everything from the reject Ameraucana to the extreme mutts. All of mine are Easter Eggers - there is no SOP for them.

If the bird lays a pinkish egg, she does not carry the blue egg gene and is a generic mutt, not an EE--even if she has muffs, etc. You're right, there is no SOP--the only requirement to be an EE is to carry the blue egg gene.

Chickens cannot lay green eggs without the blue egg gene. Easter Eggers can lay green, pink, blue - if the blue gene has been outbred too many times, you will end up with cream, brownish, etc. eggs. They can look like Ameraucana, but they will be Easter Eggers. Ameraucana are an APA breed and you can look up what the requirements are. Easter Eggers are everything from the reject Ameraucana to the extreme mutts. All of mine are Easter Eggers - there is no SOP for them.

Gotcha. I couldn't tell from your original post--it seemed like you were saying that at least one of your birds was an Ameraucana. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[KieksterChicken]

An Easter Egger is any chicken that possesses the “blue egg” gene, but doesn’t fully meet any breed description as defined in the American Poultry Association (APA) and/or the American Bantam Association (ABA) standards. To clarify, I was going on the fact that a green egg is tied to the blue egg gene since green is a color of egg not possible without the blue egg gene present. I just lump green eggs in with the blues. That being said: "Easter Eggers are everything from the reject Ameraucana to the extreme mutts." Yes, but only if they carry the blue egg gene and therefore lay blue eggs.
"Easter Eggers can lay green, pink, blue - if the blue gene has been outbred too many times, you will end up with cream, brownish, etc. eggs." No. Easter Eggers are Easter Eggers by virtue of the fact that they carry the blue egg gene and therefore lay blue eggs. An Easter Egger is not an Easter Egger if it lays anything other than blue/blue green/green. A bird that is the result of out breeding so that the blue egg gene has disappeared and therefore lays pink, cream, brownish eggs etc. is not an Easter Egger but a barnyard mix, a Heinz 57.

 

[BridgetBarger]

Not trying to highjack the tread but on my phone I can not start my own. I just hatched some eggs supposed to be ameracuana. What do you think. I figure they are probably EE which would be OK as well.