I’m hoping you all can help me with a bit of a mystery as the feather variations/coloring of three of the five have been a complete surprise! We purchased five Easter Eggers/Ameraucanas that looked normal in their couple-of-days-old-selves and have wound up with two being the typical rusty/auburn colors, two being black and white, and one having these dusty.almost lavender feathers mixed in with the rusty/auburn feathers! So gorgeous!
In all of our chick purchasing, we’ve always had rusty/auburn with a couple that were a little blonder…anyone know what this is all about? We’re incredibly happy with the feather variations, just curious!
Will be still get the same green, blue, pink and brown eggs, or is there a variation coming that we didn’t anticipate? Oh, this is so exciting!
Thanks in advance for your help!
xoxo,
M
Americaunas are crossbred chickens, the color varieties are quite broad, but the rust color is the most dominant. You can also get solid creamy white hens and a soft buff color. If you think the hens are colorful, you should see the roosters! That rusty red on the hens translates to a gorgeous white/rust-red saddleback pattern in the males.
The eggs are pretty much as you have seen. varying shades of blue, green, pink, brown, occasionally a green so pale it looks yellow.
I’d love to have chickens, but I live in an area that bars livestock raising. I did raise Auracanas as a child, and I miss them.
Enjoy! 🙂
I can’t speak for the lavenderish one, but I bought 5 last year, four were the rusty Auburn color, one was white and black. The odd man out was just that, a roo. I don’t know if yours will be roos, but my white and black one was, and so beautiful
I recently got two Ameraucaunas. One is black and white, the other is the brown/black combo. A farmer I used to get eggs from has a very large flock of Ameraucaunas of all different colors and they all lay the colorful eggs!
I know nothing of chickens, but the variations are lovely! Next year for us… we will surely be calling upon all you chicken-owners to help with our first hens! 🙂
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I can’t provide any insight, but I can confirm you are not alone! We adopted 12 Easter Eggers earlier this spring and are experiencing the same wide range in plumage color! I didn’t realize that wasn’t the norm! You’re right – it will be quite interesting to see if this translates into different shades of eggs!