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 docile and curious. They can be a little more on the flighty side.
We recently had DNA testing done for the blue egg gene. The rooster in this flock tested to be heterozygous. The hens are all homozygous. All of the chicks hatched from this flock will be in standard and lay blue eggs.
We are growing out new roosters this year to have a fully tested homozygous for the blue egg gene flock by the end of the year.
Isabel Ameraucana
The Isabel Ameraucana is a project color. They are wheaten ameraucana crossed with lavender ameraucana to have both the wheaten and the lavender genetics. The lavender gene mutes the gold and tan colors making them a light peach color with lavender.
My flock also contain hens that are wheaten split to isabel, meaning they carry one copy of the lavender gene and look wheaten. 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.
The rooster in the pen has been tested and is homozygous for the blue egg gene.
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.
The rooster in this pen is tested and is homozygous for the blue egg gene.
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.
I am currently on the first generation cross of wheaten and lavender marans. The chicks they produce have one copy of both the wheaten and lavender gene.
If interested in some of these chicks or hatching eggs message me on Facebook.
So I will have chicks and possible grow outs that are out of standard colors or hidden color carriers.