Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

[ourrune]

It sounds like they are attempting to sex chicks by soft signs. Markings, relative leg size, swooping a hat over the top, etc. They may claim whatever % accuracy they like but I'd expect 50/50. Unfortunately, 50/50 doesn't translate to small batches. You could ask about getting started pullets. Breeders often have birds of various ages as culling is an ongoing process.

I guess I’ve gotten super lucky in the past. I’ve always bought small batches of eggs to hatch or chicks and I’ve always gotten some females out of them and usually more female than male. I hatched a batch of 9 EEs once and most were girls but only one girl was all yellow so I kept her and gave the rest away/ I wish now I kept more of those girls. she laid every day pretty blue eggs!

 

[ourrune]

It sounds like they are attempting to sex chicks by soft signs. Markings, relative leg size, swooping a hat over the top, etc. They may claim whatever % accuracy they like but I'd expect 50/50. Unfortunately, 50/50 doesn't translate to small batches. You could ask about getting started pullets. Breeders often have birds of various ages as culling is an ongoing process.

Thank you btw!

 

[ourrune]

The stores around here only ever offer Easter Eggers (mislabeled as "Americanas") and they're straight run. If you got two males out of 4, you probably got straight run. But, you can order sexed females (or males) or straight run from TSC online in groups of 10. They ship from the hatchery.

Oh one more question!!

Does anyone know What makes an Easter egger? I have currently creasted cream legbar hen and rooster my rooster hatched from a blue egg and my hen lays and came from a green egg. I have a salmon faverolle who is my favorite though she is too sweet she gets pecked in constantly from the legbar and his sweetie now. But if I hatched a egg from the faverolle fertilized from the legbar would that make a EE?

Mostly who determines the egg color when bred together? Would a hen who lays pink eggs bred with a rooster who lays blue eggs end up having hens that lay pink or blue? I have always wondered but I can’t seem to find a straight answer to that. I don’t plan on breeding or hatching anytime soon I’m burnt out but I’m curious in case of the future.

Thanks you in advanced for anyone’s time or advice to this off topic subject

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Oh one more question!!

Does anyone know What makes an Easter egger? I have currently creasted cream legbar hen and rooster my rooster hatched from a blue egg and my hen lays and came from a green egg. I have a salmon faverolle who is my favorite though she is too sweet she gets pecked in constantly from the legbar and his sweetie now. But if I hatched a egg from the faverolle fertilized from the legbar would that make a EE?

Mostly who determines the egg color when bred together? Would a hen who lays pink eggs bred with a rooster who lays blue eggs end up having hens that lay pink or blue? I have always wondered but I can’t seem to find a straight answer to that. I don’t plan on breeding or hatching anytime soon I’m burnt out but I’m curious in case of the future.

Thanks you in advanced for anyone’s time or advice to this off topic subject

Pretty much anything that's a mix that will lay a colored shell. That's why EEs don't have a breed or a standard, and can lay anything from blue, olive, green brown or white.

 

[ourrune]

Mine came from Cackle last year, and they are very nice! We just got an order including some French Marans, again from Cackle; a 'suprise' group of pullets. Black copper, black, wheaton, and cuckoo.
Try Cackle, maybe they still have some.
Mary

Hello! I checked cackle and they do have amerucanas in several different colors. however like the lavender which I’ve wanted for years. Is 14.00 for one chick!! Lol straight run!!! I’m used to paying $5 a chick or egg locally but only these Wheaton’s are available locally and I’m afraid they’re being sexed and sold on Craigslist for $5 as males and maybe sell females to local tractor supply or something. I don’t know it’s my paranoia. I am not looking forward to driving another hour and half to end up with more roosters! Did you get a lot of females from your batch you got from them and how many did you buy?? I know 14.00 is probably normal I just don’t have that kind of money to end up with boys! But I am curious

 

[ourrune]

Pretty much anything that's a mix that will lay a colored shell. That's why EEs don't have a breed or a standard, and can lay anything from blue, olive, green brown or white.

Do you know whether the Mom or Dad determines which color will be laid by the offspring?

 

[ourrune]

I got mine at Tractor Supply where they don't sell males

So I did some research after u said u bought yours from tractor supply and that they were sexed and called the closest tractor supply to the guy I bought mine from. I talked to him today he said he will have new batch hatch Thursday when I called the store they said they will have new batch in Thursday. I asked if they will be pullet or straight run and she says they will know for sure Thursday but they have bins of pullets and straight runs!!! I think this guy is sexing them and selling the females for more money to the store and having poor ppl from Craigslist buy the boys!! He knew I was going to drive that far again pay that money again and worst of all raise them again for two months to find out they’re boys again! That’s too much a coincidence! I’ll be going to tractor supply thursday instead to get the sexed females! Even if they don’t turn out to be all females my chances with them are obviously higher!! I didn’t know anything about Wheaton amerucana or how to sex them one of them had black on them to start with they were about one week old knowing what I know now I would have known better that was gonna be a boy! This guy is the worst but I’m just gonna go get my amerucana and mind my own business since it’s just my suspicion.

 

[bruceha2000]

Do you know whether the Mom or Dad determines which color will be laid by the offspring?

Both The offspring get 1 egg color gene from each parent. If both parents have 2 blue genes, ALL the chicks will have 2, all the females will lay blue. You can work out the grid but the "low percentage" is when 1 parent has no blue genes and the other has 1. No offspring will lay blue and 25% will lay green. On average of course, no telling which gene each parent will pass on to each egg. The only way to tell if a rooster has 2 blues is through a lot of breeding to see what his female offspring lay.

 

[debid]

So I did some research after u said u bought yours from tractor supply and that they were sexed and called the closest tractor supply to the guy I bought mine from. I talked to him today he said he will have new batch hatch Thursday when I called the store they said they will have new batch in Thursday. I asked if they will be pullet or straight run and she says they will know for sure Thursday but they have bins of pullets and straight runs!!! I think this guy is sexing them and selling the females for more money to the store and having poor ppl from Craigslist buy the boys!! He knew I was going to drive that far again pay that money again and worst of all raise them again for two months to find out they’re boys again! That’s too much a coincidence! I’ll be going to tractor supply thursday instead to get the sexed females! Even if they don’t turn out to be all females my chances with them are obviously higher!! I didn’t know anything about Wheaton amerucana or how to sex them one of them had black on them to start with they were about one week old knowing what I know now I would have known better that was gonna be a boy! This guy is the worst but I’m just gonna go get my amerucana and mind my own business since it’s just my suspicion.

TSC is a huge chain that buys from the BIG hatcheries. Think Privett, Ideal, Hoover's, Welp... They don't buy from a backyard breeder.

Now, whether your seller had weeded through their chicks to unload early-showing males is another thing altogether. I wouldn't presume so with such a small order and the young age you got them. But if you feel like they're shady, then by all means go elsewhere.

 

[llombardo]

I called them again and they are adamant that I have females. I went to another place and they also said give it a few more weeks because they are not seeing them as roosters at this point. I guess now, I just wait.