When is an EE no longer an EE?

[Chicky Tocks]

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Ta DA! That's what I've always heard. Before BYC, to me, most colored egg layers were Ameraucana, not to be confused with Araucana because the Ameraucana was an americanized version of that original bird. The Araucana is rumpless and the Ameraucana has a tailio.

 

[TimG]

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This is wrong. The mother that laid the blue egg could have one dominant and one recessive color gene, either of which she could pass on to offspring.

 

[Chicky Tocks]

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????

It was a buckeye colored chicken that was roosterized by either an Ameraucana - Araucana or otherwise EE chicken.​

 

[speckledhen]

If your BR/EE cross is the one you posted in the ameraucana, ee, araucana picture post, then I would not consider it an EE, ameraucana, whatever you want to call it. That is a mixed chicken. Again, my opinion.

Easter Eggers are mixed, they aren't a true breed. Since Panda lays a green egg and is half Ameraucana (true Amer), then she qualifies as an Easter Egger. Her half sisters have beards and muffs and lay green eggs, some of them quite dark green. She just happened to come out beardless, like a couple of my own Ameraucanas did last year. Here is Panda's sister, same mother, both BR fathers (who were father and son)

 

[ILOVEFRIZZLES]

is the barred rock mix is an EE then mine are not. They are Ameraucanas and I am going to call them that.

 

[roosty]

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Easter Eggers are mixed, they aren't a true breed. Since Panda lays a green egg and is half Ameraucana (true Amer), then she qualifies as an Easter Egger. Her half sisters have beards and muffs and lay green eggs, some of them quite dark green. She just happened to come out beardless, like a couple of my own Ameraucanas did last year.

No, a barred rock and an ee is not an EE....an ee and an ee would be an ee...a br and an EE is a mixed chicken completly. That would be a mix! As I was saying...this is the problem....yall want to call anything and everything an EE.
EE is not a term for all mixed chickens!!! MY OPINION AGAIN

 

[speckledhen]

You are missing the point. ALL mixed breed chickens are not EEs, that would be a silly idea. EEs are mixed breed chickens, but not all mixed breed chickens are EEs. And EE bred to an EE will not produce it's exact type, doesn't breed true. And an Ameraucana that meets the standard can be shown as an Ameraucana, an EE cannot. The APA defines them, not us.

 

[roosty]

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I totally agree with ilovefrizzles!!!!!! If that is an EE then what I have are by far ameraucanas!!!

 

[roosty]

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If you breed an EE to another totally different breed, say a br...then you have a mutt.
that is not a picture of an EE

 

[TimG]

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It was a buckeye colored chicken that was roosterized by either an Ameraucana - Araucana or otherwise EE chicken.

It could have been "roosterized" generations ago and have 15/16 or 31/32 Buckeye blood.

I suggest that from a technical standpoint it is a Buckeye if the APA SOP does not include a disqualification for colored eggs. If it is not a disqualification, then the colored eggs simply contribute to the determination of overall quality of this Buckeye hen. The chicken world is not like the horse or dog world where pedigrees are tracked and "purebreds" are determined by percentage of pure blood. Right?