Blue-Laced Red Wyandotte x Ameraucana

[Freerangefather]

Hello, I had a chick sold to me as an Australorp, who I suspected was a black Amerauana start laying.... surprise, she lays bright blue eggs. Anyways, I am looking to expand my flock and thought it would be fun to hatch some of her eggs. My rooster is a Blue-Laced Red Wyandotte. I am under the understanding understanding that the pullets will then be Easter eggers.

1) Has anyone crossed these two before and if so how did the pullets and eggs look?

2) she is 8 months old and only began laying a couple days ago. Should I wait a certain amount of time before I start collecting her eggs to hatch? I know some of the first few are always a little smaller and funny shaped. Thanks!

 

[Cassandra Lana]

you just have to check for fertilized eggs before hatchin . Also your bird is a araucana not a Americana . This is an Americana (I spell that wrong )

 

[Freerangefather]

Eggcellent reply, thank you! I have been reading up on how to determine fertilized or not. Aside from that I think the only problem with using eggs from a new layer is size, but this hen is almost 9 months old and her eggs aren't all that small.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

you just have to check for fertilized eggs before hatchin . Also your bird is a araucana not a Americana . This is an Americana (I spell that wrong )
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Your chicken is not an ameraucana. She is an Easter egger, which are incorrectly labeled as “americanas”.

These are ameraucanas.

These are araucanas.

(Not my pictures.)

Your hen isn’t bearded, has green legs, has a mixed nonstandard coloration, and has the completely wrong body and tail shape for a true ameraucana.

The OP’s hen isn’t an araucana. Araucanas, such as the ones pictured above, don’t have tails and are tufted, not bearded.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Hello, I had a chick sold to me as an Australorp, who I suspected was a black Amerauana start laying.... surprise, she lays bright blue eggs. Anyways, I am looking to expand my flock and thought it would be fun to hatch some of her eggs. My rooster is a Blue-Laced Red Wyandotte. I am under the understanding understanding that the pullets will then be Easter eggers.

1) Has anyone crossed these two before and if so how did the pullets and eggs look?

2) she is 8 months old and only began laying a couple days ago. Should I wait a certain amount of time before I start collecting her eggs to hatch? I know some of the first few are always a little smaller and funny shaped. Thanks!
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Can you get a closeup picture of your hen’s comb?

 

[Freerangefather]

Can you get a closeup picture of your hen’s comb?

I'm not home at the moment so I cannot right now. Let me see if I can find one in my phone.

 

[Freerangefather]

Can you get a closeup picture of your hen’s comb?

I'm sorry this is the best I've got right now.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

View attachment 2592230I'm sorry this is the best I've got right now.

I can’t tell from that picture whether she has a pea comb or not. If she doesn’t have a pea comb, I’d guess she’s a first generation ameraucana mix.

 

[Freerangefather]

I can’t tell from that picture whether she has a pea comb or not. If she doesn’t have a pea comb, I’d guess she’s a first generation ameraucana mix.

I'll try and get some pictures when I'm home in a few days. She's tough to photograph because she is very flighty. Regardless, she lays me big bright blue eggs and I'm clearly not starting a purebred breeding operation so her lines don't matter too much to me. I began to incubate some of her eggs yesterday, they have been fertilized by my Blue-Laced Red Wyandotte rooster from Murray McMurray.

 

[JadeFarms]

Your bird is a black ameraucana.
Not an araucana and not an Easter egger.