When is an EE no longer an EE?

[roosty]

The only place I have ever even heard the term Easter Egger is in the internet world....If you say EE in the real world you get some funny looks and people think your an idiot. (where I live anyhow). This whole ameraucana EE thing drives me crazy!

IMO again..lol: I consider an EE and an ameraucana the same thing...I know Im gonna get some flack for this but Oh Well!

If it meets all the other standards for an ameraucana except the whole weird color thing (I say wierd color thing cause I think thats a bunch of bull)then I say its still an ameraucana....if it dont meet the other standards then I say its a mixed breed. ( again...this dont work in the internet world)
So again...this is MY OWN OPINION....
I am totally not gonna start an arguement about this though.

I just wanted to answer the OP question....If you mix them with other breeds...they are no longer EE or ameaucana or whatever you want to call them.

 

[Kansaseq]

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I appreciate and respect your answer. Thanks!

 

[roosty]

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I appreciate and respect your answer. Thanks!

Your welcome!

 

[The Wolf Queen]

I agree with roosty because ive heard that a EE is an americauna that doesnt meet the standards of perfection and lays a different egg color

 

[Krys109uk]

I'd agree with Tim.

EEs cannot be a breed as they are not uniform in type or colour & cannot necessarily be expected to breed true.
As far as I can ascertain EE is a polite name for a crossbreed chicken with Araucana or Ameraucana somewhere in its ancestry. The only point in which I disagree with Tim is that I don't think they need need to lay a blue/green egg. (The term tinted is usually applied to off white eggs rather than those carrying the blue egg gene "O").

I suppose the point of where does an Ameraucana stop being an Ameraucana & be called an EE bird is only the same as any other purebred & when it stops being called that breed. And if we're being honest....lots of birds get sold as being a certain breed when the legitimacy of giving them the name that breed is rather questionable.

 

[Marlinchaser]

If you read the discription given by some hatcheries......
It has the potential to lay colored eggs. There are plenty of PURE EE's that lay a brown egg. ANY chicken that has the potential to lay a egg can be considered a EE if you want to call it that.

 

[Marlinchaser]

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So thats why people look at me that way, and call me names.

 

[Kansaseq]

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Do you mean ANY chicken that has the potential to lay an egg, or ANY chicken that has the potential to lay a COLORED egg?

Love your sig line, by the way!

 

[Marlinchaser]

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Do you mean ANY chicken that has the potential to lay an egg, or ANY chicken that has the potential to lay a COLORED egg?

I think that both could be applied, but usually its one that has the potential to lay a colored egg.

Heres a question that may stump you EE Experts, I have a chicken that looks exactly like a buckeye, no muffs, no tuffs etc... but she lays a blue green egg what is she????

 

[MichiganWoods]

Since there seems to be no real definition... why don't we make an official one here on BYC and see if the Poultry Associations will at least acknowledge the definition, even if they don't want to recognize it as an actual breed?


I'd say any chicken that lays a blue or green egg but is not defined as either a purebred Araucana or purebred Ameraucana can be thusly labeled an Easter Egger. Furthermore, if it is visibly recognizable that they carry the blue egg gene but do not lay blue or green eggs but rather lay shades including pink, purple, brown or stone colored eggs, these birds may also be dubbed Easter Eggers. Any chicken that does not meet the standards of any recognized breeds, does not visibly appear to carry the blue egg gene nor lay an egg of any of the aforementioned colors would therefor be simply a mixed breed chicken, or "mutt".


To make this definition really work, I need to ask and hopefully someone knows: If you have a hen that carries the blue egg gene but does not lay blue eggs, could her offspring potentially lay blue eggs?