Wheaten Ameraucana egg color question

[Leaux]

I ordered a surprise mix of fertilized eggs from a respectable big name hatchery. In my mix, I received 4 Wheaten Ameraucana eggs. All 4 eggs were brown. After doing a little research, it looks like Wheaten Ameraucanas lay blue eggs. Is it possible that I got 4 mislabeled eggs, or do Wheaten Ameraucanas lay brown eggs as well as blue eggs?

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

You dont have aneraucana eggs there...they could be meant to produce Easter egger chicks which are from a blue egg male over brown egg females, which can result in chicks that lay shades of green/blue.
What hatchery are they from?

 

[jblackb042]

You dont have aneraucana eggs there...they could be meant to produce Easter egger chicks which are from a blue egg male over brown egg females, which can result in chicks that lay shades of green/blue.
What hatchery are they from?

This^^^ True Wheaten Ameraucana eggs are blue. They can be very light blue/almost white late in the laying season, but they will never be brown.

 

[Cyprus]

Agree.
Where did you get them from?

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

MPC claims to have quality wheaten ameraucana hatching eggs....that are blue (the pics of breeding flock are a blue wheaten cock and wheaten(ish) hens.....not quite the quality they are making them out to be "may get show quality chicks", but the birds shown are true ameraucana at least).
That said, any hatchery sending me brown eggs and labeling them as wheaten ameraucana would not be one I would describe as reputable.....

 

[ChickenCanoe]

They aren't ameraucanas, they are Easter eggers that have had the blue egg gene diluted enough that it is no longer there.
MPC isn't a hatchery. They contract with lots of breeders to produce birds for their shipments. Therefor, they have no real control over what you will get.
I would just let them know.