What is my Easter Egger mixed with?

[featherhead007]

Do you really want to know that chicken? well It's full love you give it ! It shares your emotions and your happiness/sadness, and rarely asks questions!
Chickens are not just poultry, THEY MAKE LOVELY PETS!

 

[junebuggena]

That's close to what I've always thought but most Ameracauna breeders disagree with that.
Most will tell you an EE can lay brown eggs which makes no sense to me at all.

Hatcheries have been breeding Easter Eggers since the early 1900s. Back then, all blue/green layers were called Araucana, but looked much the same as modern day Easter Eggers. It's important to remember that even in South America, they weren't strictly blue layers. Those original imports laid a range of colors, including brown. There was no Easter Egger, Ameraucana, Araucana distinction until recent years; when the APA recognized both the Araucana and Ameraucana breed standards. While Ameraucana and Araucana breeders worked to eliminate green/brown genes from their breeding populations, hatcheries did not.

 

[drumstick diva]

agree with Jed Jackson

 

[featherhead007]

i'M typing this with Her, my Ameraucana on my shoulder at the moment and her name is sophia lor- Hen trust me the name fits!!!

 

[Cl2Abbeyrd]

One Easter Egger, two mixed breeds. One is definitely a Faverolle mix. Houdan don't have feathered legs and a Sultan would have produced a split comb and crest. The other is a Polish mix.

The faverolle mix is the sweetest one and so far the only one who will eat out of my hand. I named her Harriet.

 

[Cl2Abbeyrd]

That's close to what I've always thought but most Ameracauna breeders disagree with that.
Most will tell you an EE can lay brown eggs which makes no sense to me at all.

That's what they said at the farm I picked these beautiful little ladies up from!
I asked what color eggs they might lay, and she thought they would either be blue or tan. She thought the black one especially might have blue eggs. Time will tell, I guess!
She called them all EE's because of their blue/grey legs. It doesn't matter much to me as they are just pets. I love hearing thoughts from everyone, though. I'm learning so much!

 

[The Moonshiner]

I raised and eventually showed Araucana in the 70s.
Never had issue with egg color. All mine laid blue eggs.
Back then we were trying to deal with their lethal gene. I had previously raised Japanese and knew about their lethal gene and bred short legs to long legs. At the time it was thought Araucana lethal gene was linked to them being rumplesss so we all bred rumpless to tailed.

 

[featherhead007]

My breakfast can consist of dark brown, light brown, white, or green, blue or saphire colored eggs, oh God my hens are so lovely,, and as for me I cherish the time I have for them and the attention they show to me....... But those 2 black white crested polish roosters gezzzz thats another story!!!

 

[featherhead007]

That's what they said at the farm I picked these beautiful little ladies up from!
I asked what color eggs they might lay, and she thought they would either be blue or tan. She thought the black one especially might have blue eggs. Time will tell, I guess!
She called them all EE's because of their blue/grey legs. It doesn't matter much to me as they are just pets. I love hearing theories from everyone, though. I'm learning so much!

pets with benefits! Eggs!

 

[featherhead007]

i'M typing this with Her, my Ameraucana on my shoulder at the moment and her name is sophia lor- Hen trust me the name fits!!!

Abby, the other names are as follows..... Beetov-hen, Hen-rietta, canna canna canna, Atilla the hen, heather, Rock rock, mop head, red headed, chik chik, and mary magdoline..
I love my birds! you should too!