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Jean:
That is to be expected with any line of ameraucana.

Don:
John,  A light greenish tint can come back in just a few generations if we are not careful.  The brown egg genes can pop up a bit from time to time if we are concentrating on type, comb or some other trait. It is thought that there are more than a dozen genes that cause the brown coating on eggs.  It's something that we have to be careful to select for all of the time.  You can select the the hens that lay the best colored eggs and try to use males from these same hens.  You can't see the egg color that they are carrying so you have to depend on his genetic background.  If you like the birds overall select for the best color eggs and maybe try to hatch a few with a male from another line that carries the egg color more to your liking. 

Paul:
Hi John, 

  Egg color varies greatly from breeding line to line and from bird to bird.  Off color from the sky blue doesn't mean that they aren't Ameraucanas.

  Sorry for the delayed response, been at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, so Matthew could try to win $1000 gift certificate to purchase a show female for 2017 San Antonio Show, by catching, haltering and leading a 400 pound calf to the center of the rodeo arena, during the rodeo.  He plans to purchase a Hampshire gilt with his winnings.

Paul:
  Presently we have orders/request for 1005 Ameraucana chicks.  We should be able to supply more black, blue, splash, and self blue-(incorrectly called lavender) from our last couple hatches of the season.  We are fully booked for whites and all three of the wheaten varieties.

  We can also supply hatching eggs for black only; black, blue and splash;
black and blue; black and blue with the possibility of a few recessive whites; self blue; or self blue-splits.  We started shipping hatching eggs again this year, due to the new available foam shippers.  We have heard back from our first two shipments with results of 13/20 and 16/36 hatches.  The only guarantee on hatching eggs is they are out of breeding pen on egg and laid on date on egg.  The shipping and foam are $24.  The eggs are $3 each with a minimum of 12 and maximum of 36 per box.  Hatching eggs will be available now through April 17 and again May 2 and after.  The two week period April 18-May 2-no eggs will be available as we will need them to set 576 on May 2.  The collecting periods when we only need 370, eggs are available.

  Most of our eggs were of good color several months ago.  Colored egg layers (including brown breeds) usually get lighter in color as they lay.  Most of the eggs are very light in color now.  Seventeen years with Ameraucanas and four years with EEL, pullets from the washed out eggs will lay good color at the start of their laying career and lay washed out eggs later just like their parents.

  Contact  Paul & Angela at psmith@ntin.net

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