Crossing Rhode Island Red with Ameraucana creates an Easter Egger — a popular hybrid laying green or olive eggs with excellent production rates.
Green eggs with high productivity — the Easter Egger
Crossing Rhode Island Red with Ameraucana creates an Easter Egger — a popular hybrid laying green or olive eggs with excellent production rates.
Ameraucana's blue egg gene combined with RIR's brown gene creates green/olive eggs. Add RIR's high productivity and you get colorful eggs in abundance.
High productivity — 240–270 eggs per year. Egg color varies individually.
Easy care, good adaptation to Georgian climate. Standard feed and housing.
Pros: Colorful eggs, high productivity, good adaptation.
Cons: Unpredictable egg color, hybrid.
Green, olive, or blue — depends on genetics.
Yes — 240–270 eggs per year.
Easter Egger is any cross laying colored eggs. Olive Egger is a specific hybrid with olive-colored eggs.