I am developing a cross of a araucana X white leg horn
for heavy production of colored eggs. If I do develop
it will probably lay green eggs [strong gene ] and produce lots of eggs because all leg horns do. I also know that it will be an aggresive breed that will do good free ranged.If you know anything please write back on this or at aelliott10@aol.com .



thanks

A few years back I went to the local feed store and purchased a hen which I thought was an auracana. Well suprise, suprise she wasn't. What she was, was a cross just like what you described except she looked like an auracana crossed with a light brwn lghrn. A small wiry (like a leghorn) bird, colored like a l.b. leghorn with no signs of any feathers sticking out in weird spots on her head but she laid green eggs.
I loved her for many years (until the dogs got her).
P.S. She laid just as well as a leghorn.

Good Luck!!

Hi,
I have raised the tufted and rumpless Araucana for many years and they are excellent laying hens. I would have to question why cross them with anything else?

Hi,
The best cross I ever did was a Black Sumatra male with a Black Ameraucana female. The female I bred to had a full beard and muffs and laid gorgeous blue eggs. The rooster I bred to her was in my opinion the smartest chicken I had ever seen. I named him 'Mr. T' and he was a purebred Sumatra with lustrous greenish black feathers, long flowing tail, dark (almost black)face and legs and multiple spurs.
The offsprings were perfect. In body type they were quite similar to Ameraucanas but with slightly raised long flowing tales, very long saddle feathers, purplish-black heads with beards and muffs, almost no combs or wattles, and long black legs. The females laid the beautiful sky blue eggs and the males were a site to see and very intelligent.

In March (2000), using a new incubator, I hatched two
batches of eggs for a total of 40 new chicks. An
Ameraucana rooster (named Van Buren--due to the beard)
fathered some of my Leghorn and Golden Sex-Link chicks.
The Sex-Link cross started to lay army-green eggs at 15
weeks of age and hasn't stopped daily eggs since then;
her mother lays jumbo-sized eggs and at 1 1/4 years has
not yet failed to lay an egg daily since she was 14 1/2
weeks old. The cross in question, named Falcon because
of her beautiful brown, black, and tan feathers, is
healthy hen, but not particularly tame. She has a
single comb, no beard, but has green legs of an
Ameraucana. I believe her egg color is a compromise
between light brown and bluish green.
As for the Leghorn crosses, one I call Stone-Hen has a
pea-comb, mottled green legs, no beard, and white
feathers with black flecks and splotches like marble.
She lays blue-green eggs and is very tame. The other
one, Muffy, is colored like Stone-Hen, has a very large
beard, a single comb, solid green legs, and lays
beautiful turquoise-blue eggs. Both pullets are
broader-breasted and heavier (not by much) than pure
Leghorn pullets from the same hatch. A third Leghorn X
Ameraucana, Beardsley, a cockerel, is very small, pea
comb, yellow legs, beard, and was born crippled in one
leg. He has white feathers with rust-colored feathers
around his neck. I am eagerly awaiting two black
Australorp X Ameraurana crosses' first eggs. Also a
Buff Orpington X Ameraucana cross' first egg.
If you want many eggs at an early age, the Golden
Sex-Link crosses probably will get you what you want.
However, the brown egg pigment may darken the green
color to a shade of olive.

I too am contemplating an Ameraucana cross. How about Ameraucana X Cornish... I have a nice Ameraucana roo and would like to get a couple of Pure Cornish hens to cross with him to produce meat birds for my family. I realize that the Cornish hens produce few eggs but I believe that it would be enough to supply my needs. Cornish X Rock is the fastest growing and tastest commercial broiler, so what do you think about the hybrid vigor of the cross I am proposing?

I have an Ameraucana X Cornish hen that everyone thinks is an American eagle with her stocky build, muffs and beard and small pea comb with no wattles. She lays a greenish blue egg for a few weeks and rests for a few weeks. She is a gorgeous bird with the hard Cornish feathers.

I think that the blue egg layer X leghorn will produce a blue egg instead of a green. Blue egg with white shell = blue. Blue egg with brown shell = olive.