I am looking for bantam ameraucana or easter eggers (NOT auracaunas). I am mainly looking for brown red (but wheaten or blue or black or buff would be OK, in that order of preference) pullets, but really I just want a bantam that lays blue/green eggs to cross with my seramas. I am going to try to breed a really small blue/green layer. (going for a seramaucana) I have no interest in showing, but I do like the look of the brown red and that is what my main rooster is.
My hope is to just develop the small colored layer, then try for a specific look later if I can get size and color where I like it on the eggs. I am new to all this, only had chickens for a few months.
I do have an incubator, so eggs would be OK, but ideally I would like new hatched. If you have some older culls, I care more about egg color and small size than I do about looks. I know the easter eggers dont necessarily breed true to color, but I understand that ameraucana do. I know that later in summer I can get hatchlings from mypetchicken, but I hate to wait till June.
Summary:
1st preference: ameraucana bantam 6 pullets and 1 cockeral, brown red or wheaten (smaller the better, other colors OK)
2nd preference: easter egger bantams 6 pullets and 1 cockeral, whatever color
3rd preference: ameraucana or easter egger bantam hatching eggs, 6 green 6 blue (darker the better). Please PM me if you can help a newbie out.
By the way, the reason for this odd mix/idea. My wife likes the colored eggs, the kids want small chickens, and I like the looks of the wheaten and buff roosters and red brown hens. We all want friendly chickens too.
My hope is to just develop the small colored layer, then try for a specific look later if I can get size and color where I like it on the eggs. I am new to all this, only had chickens for a few months.
I do have an incubator, so eggs would be OK, but ideally I would like new hatched. If you have some older culls, I care more about egg color and small size than I do about looks. I know the easter eggers dont necessarily breed true to color, but I understand that ameraucana do. I know that later in summer I can get hatchlings from mypetchicken, but I hate to wait till June.
Summary:
1st preference: ameraucana bantam 6 pullets and 1 cockeral, brown red or wheaten (smaller the better, other colors OK)
2nd preference: easter egger bantams 6 pullets and 1 cockeral, whatever color
3rd preference: ameraucana or easter egger bantam hatching eggs, 6 green 6 blue (darker the better). Please PM me if you can help a newbie out.
By the way, the reason for this odd mix/idea. My wife likes the colored eggs, the kids want small chickens, and I like the looks of the wheaten and buff roosters and red brown hens. We all want friendly chickens too.
