What color egg does your MCMURRAY "Americana" lay??? pics??

[Kansaseq]

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But I think 'colored' means any color but white............

 

[hkwdesign]

I have 2 Araucana's - one (black & grey, with grey skinned legs, and lt. blue ears) always lays pale blue eggs. My brown & black one (grey skinned legs - not sure what color the ears are) is 24 wks old and has not started laying...I'll keep you posted!

 

[keeko]

hkwdesign - are you girls from McMurray? I've never seen a black and gray EE from McMurray! I know from reading another thread on here that hatcheries tend to have the same strain of EE and so have similar colors. Two of my EE's from McMurray are the common yellow/black (or gold/black) with partridge feathers, and one is white with gold lacing (the 4th from my tagline was actually purchased locally).

Well my girls are all now laying quite regularly. I must say, out of my bunch, the Ameraucanas lay the most consistently now that the days are getting shorter.

Turned out one (a gold/black partridge) lays a very consistent light green egg. It's beautiful! Another gold/black colored bird lays a light olive egg...in the right lights, it appears distinct from the first one. Finally, my third EE from McMurray laid a GORGEOUS light blue for her first 5-7 eggs...and then it CHANGED to a pale green, nearly indistinct from the other two. So I know for a fact that when they're working out the "kinks" they CAN lay different colored eggs. I blew them out and saved them, so I have the proof!!

So, the bottom line is that 3 out of 3 Ameraucanas of mine from McMurray hatchery lay a version of a green egg. I'm happy with those odds!

 

[Tikka]

My girls aren't from McMurray, but we got two "Ameraucanas". They had muffs and the chipmunk back. One grew the pea comb and lays blue eggs (That's the chick in my profile here). The other had a speckled face that was cute as all get out, but her comb grew in like a rubber glove and her eggs blend in with all the others. So I guess she's just our little mutt.

 

[woodmort]

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This guy came from McM this spring--looks pretty black to me:

Plus this hen on the same shipment:

Actually all the hens look like this

I've either gotten EE's from them or hatched them here from their stock. All the eggs have been blue, green or blue/green. At one point I had selectively bred from their stock for the blue eggs and was doing really well until a weasel killed all my roosters.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

All 3 of mine lay slightly different shades of green.