Breeds & Color Varieties
Adding color to your basket and chicken yard, while working towards the standard.
Wheaten Ameraucana
Wheaten Ameraucana hens have that beautiful cream and golden colors and roosters have black, blue, or splash bodies with golden on the hackles and saddle feathers.
They lay 250+ blue eggs a year.
Their personality tend to be friendly and docile.
Isabel Ameraucana
The Isabel Ameraucana is a project color. They are wheaten Ameraucanas that also have the lavender gene.
My flock also contain hen that are wheaten split to isabel, meaning they carry one copy of the gene. I use these hens to improve feather quality.
The blue eggs from these girls are the richest blue eggs I’ve ever seen. They are beautiful.
Wheaten Marans
Wheaten Marans are a great dual purpose breed. The hens have the beautiful cream to golden colors and the roosters are mostly black, blue or splash, with golden hackles and saddle feathers.
Wheaten Marans are very friendly and lay about 200-225 dark brown eggs per year.
Black Ameraucanas
Black Ameraucanas are docile and curious. They a pure black and the males have a green sheen to them. They lay about 4-6 blue eggs per week.
My black ameraucana flock is still small and the newest color of ameraucana I have.
Olive Eggers
Olive eggers are a hybrid or cross of a blue egg layer and a dark brown egg layer. Thats how you get green eggs. Now to get different shades of green you can cross back to a blue layer or brown layer to add many colors to your basket.
Marans Color Projects
I am working on a multigeneration color project for Marans. When working on color projects that take multiple generations you end up with birds in those middle generations that don’t really meet the color standards or the project color.
So I will have chicks and possible grow outs that are out of standard colors or hidden color carriers.