what color will this Ameraucana be?

[jossanne]

I think as long as the EE you're using to cross with lays a nice green or blue egg, you're going to have a great chance of having olive eggers. I had some that were australorp X EE and they laid lovely olive eggs. I didn't see the EE parent, but I know it was an EE and not an ameraucana.

 

[bibliophile birds]

ok, so my other 4 EEs are grayish brown with dark gray spots/stripes. like:

the one on the right

the one in the bottom right corner

the one at 2 o'clock

any ideas on them?

 

[jossanne]

Most likely shades of standard EE brown - anywhere from darker buff to dark red. Like PotterWatch's reddish bird to my Ethel, who looked like that as a chick:

To my Harriet (who likes to pluck and eat my and my daughter's hair

):

And Bunny the Easter egger:

Harriet and Bunny both looked like little light-colored chipmunks.

 

[bibliophile birds]

yeah, they look a lot like your chipmunk chick, jossanne, so maybe they will look like denasfarms Mercedes. Ethel is another really beautiful bird.

there was so little information i could find about Ameraucana/EE coloring before i ordered them. i just liked the idea of those colored eggs. now i'm so excited to see how they turn out, since so many of you have wonderful looking examples!

 

[PotterWatch]

This is one that had the brown chipmunk look to it:

Now looks like this:

The bluish eggs in this basket are what my current three EEs lay:

 

[solarquail]

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I love that picture with the eggs in the basket and the real nice green grass so pretty!!!

 

[cthrash1]

Maybe if you EE is laying a blue egg?

 

[silkiechick236]

I ordered "ameraucanas" from Ideal and am so bummed out they are really easter eggers. I don't love my girls any less but that is false advertising!

My yellow EE, turned out like PotterWatcher's last pic.

 

[skeeter9]

Potter - where did you get that waterer in the second picture above? I really like the design!!!

 

[PotterWatch]

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They sell them at my feed store. I love the design, but it is a pain to clean! The small neck means that to scrub it out, you either need a brush that bends easily, or you do what I do; put a scrubby sponge in there and then use a stick to press it against the sides and scrub.

ETA: I put up with it being hard to clean because it is much harder for them to dirty the water. My other regular water thing constantly has dirt in the water pan from the girls scratching around it. This one has higher sides with openings around it and it is much harder for them to kick it full of dirt.