Auto sex chicks are those born with traits that enable people to distinguish males from females on the day that they hatch. In Cream Legbars, male chicks have a light coat and a yellow spot on their head, while female chicks have stripes. Adult Cream Legbars have slender builds. While both sexes have cream-colored necks and mainly gray bodies, the male has a cream colored-saddle and gray chest, while the female has a salmon-colored chest.
Cream Legbars are described as having calm and friendly dispositions. They also enjoy roaming outside and are thus usually raised as free-range chickens. It is still quite rare in the United States and is not yet a recognized breed there. In , the Cream Legbar Club was established to encourage the keeping of Cream Legbars and eventually get the breed recognized by organizations like the American Poultry Association.
Read more about Cream Legbar Chickens. If a chick inherits either gene from both parents, it will die before hatching.
He thus crossed his Araucanas with chickens from several different breeds. The American Poultry Association recognized the Ameraucana as a legitimate breed in The Ameraucana can be either a bantam or a large fowl, and the males are heavier than the females. In bantams, the females weigh between 24 and 26 ounces, while the males weigh between 26 and 30 ounces. In large fowl, the females weigh about 5. The Ameraucana comes in eight colors: white, wheaten, silver, buff, brown-red, blue wheaten, blue and black.
Its pea comb and wattles are both red. It gets along well with both humans and fellow chickens. It is independent and enjoys free-ranging. The Ameraucana has a life expectancy of about seven or eight years. Read more about Ameraucana Chickens. The ones that lay blue eggs inherited the gene for blue eggs from an Araucana or Ameraucana ancestor. Read more about Easter Eggers. Depending on which country you live in the Araucana can be rumpless or not and tufted or not.
Here in the US it is also known as the South American rumples bird. The tufting gene responsible for those tufts is also a lethal gene. If both parents of the chick have the gene it decrease fertility dramatically and many chicks die in shell. This rumpless gene also reduces fertility so breeding Araucanas can be a challenge. However they are a friendly and intelligent breed that loves to free range.
They can get cranky and anxious in confinement. Araucana hens will give you around 3 light blue eggs each week — or around eggs each year. The Ameraucana was developed from the Araucana with the intention of keeping their blue eggs but removing the lethal genes from the breed. It took many years and much patience for the Ameraucana to emerge as a success story and in this breed was admitted to the American Poultry Association. They are very good foragers and prefer to free range but will tolerate confinement fairly well.
Overall this is a friendly, docile and intelligent breed. The Easter Egger is a backyard favorite because of their lovable and friendly nature. With a little encouragement and plenty of treats this sweet bird can become a lap chicken in no time. They are are quite similar in appearance to Ameraucanas. Some may have muffs, beards and tails while others may have none or some of those features. They are a low maintenance chicken that will tolerate confinement or free range with equal grace.
This breed is a little on the small side with roosters only weighing 5lb and hens weighing 4lb. However they are a vigorous and healthy breed with few problems to note. Although Easter Eggers have the blue egg gene they can lay anything from a pale pink to a blue egg, so be aware you may not get blue eggs from your hens. It all has to do with a virus — a retrovirus to be precise. At some point in ancient history a retrovirus infected the Mapuche Araucana chickens. A similar but different retrovirus invaded the Dongxiang and Lushi as well.
This retrovirus contained Ribonucleic Acid which inserts itself into the invaded organism and rewrites their DNA profile. So now instead of laying a regular white or brown egg, the script has been changed to a blue egg. You can read more here if you are trying to understand the mechanism behind the blue egg phenomenon. You should remove all the old bedding and sanitize the coop with Virkon or white vinegar mixture.
Scrub down the walls, nesting boxes and sprinkle liberally with poultry dust. Here are the breeds that produce white eggs:. I love Silkie chickens because of how they look. Polish chickens are other really unique chickens as well. They have these big puffed up feathered heads. But either way, they produce beautiful white eggs and would definitely draw a lot of attention to your flock. This is a chicken that originated in Belgium. They have a beautiful orange color running through them and do produce white eggs.
However, they are not great layers. On average, they produce around eggs per year. That is basically an egg every days.
Leghorns are great layers. They produce white eggs which a lot of people really want in their backyard flock. But Leghorn chickens are rather flighty. So if you are just starting out with raising chickens, keep this in mind. Though their color schemes are different, they do produce around the same amount of eggs per year. They average around eggs per year and both produce medium-sized eggs. Barred Rock chickens look very similar to Dominiques.
They are utilized as both a meat bird and one that lays. However, they are not strong layers since they average about eggs per year. But the upside to that is that they can produce pink eggs.
This is another beautiful breed of chicken. But they are great chickens to have around as they are a more docile breed and are also very alert to their surroundings. This bird would not be one I would recommend to any backyard chicken keeper. They originated from India and Pakistan. Also, they are known for their aggressive behavior and do not produce many eggs. On average, it is said, that they only produce around 40 eggs per year.
Have you ever seen eggs that were a really deep, dark brown? They were most likely originally bred from South American blue egg laying breeds but were developed and standardized in the United States. They come in eight distinct colors including, Blue, Black, Lavender, White and Wheaten, which all share these distinct Ameraucana traits:.
The Araucana originated in Chile most likely and come in five colors including black, white, duckwing silver and golden. They are the breed that the Ameraucana was developed from. They are technically mutts - mixed breed chickens that do possess the blue egg gene, but don't fully meet the breed specifications of either Araucanas or Ameraucanas. Easter Eggers are fun because you never know what color egg each hen will lay until she starts laying, and even identical-looking hens often lay varying shades of bluish or greenish eggs.
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