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Yeah, that would make me leery too. Congrats on the chick order!

Well, if you are going to breed both lavenders and BBS, I think you can't go wrong with Paul Smith lines as your foundation.

Well, I know which quad I would be buying! If you have the space and you are serious about breeding Lavender Ameraucanas, it would seem to me that getting the three extra hens/pullets would really increase the quality of your first round of breeding. Your own hens that you posted look a...

Regarding the names lavender and self blue, I had heard there was a disagreement. But I had got the impression that it was the lavender breeders who couldn't agree amongst themselves on the name they prefer. I didn't know it was the APA that was disagreeing with the breeders. (I don't know a...

Way too adorable!

Quote: Yup, lavender is completely recessive to black, and you are right, for a bird to be lavender colored, it must be homozygous for lavender.

Genes come in pairs. When both copies of a gene are the same, that is called homozygous. So if the bird has two copies of the black gene, it is homozygous for black. If it has two copies of the lavender gene, it is homozygous for lavender. But if it has one copy of each, so one copy of black...

There will be no way to know without test breeding. If you want to keep track of where the splits are without having any unknown quantities, you would have to make sure you don't breed a black lav split to anything other than a visual lavender. But if it doesn't bother you to lose track of...

I have another installment of comb development. I really hope this is useful to people, because I feel conspicuous hijacking the Lavender thread. These photos were taken at 11 weeks, 6 days (so 12 weeks old tomorrow). Mr. Green Jeans: I think he is not following the same pattern as the...

I hope no one minds more photos of the same chicks. Since I couldn't find any photos of developing combs to learn from, I thought I might post what I'm seeing as I go along. The chicks are now 1 week older, (10 weeks, 3 days). The pink is coming in, and there are more/bigger bumps. What I...

Well, I'm pretty sure from how they were walking around when I was taking the pictures, that that one closest to the camera is the dark blue ring boy. So you must have a good eye for what you are trying to find with the points. To me they all look fairly rounded.

I carried the chicks out to their little run because it is sunny today, and while I had them in my arms I examined them very closely in the bright light. This one seems to have three very very thin rows of skin and not one thick row like I had thought from the earlier photos. So I'm pretty...

Thanks for the side by side photo. That really is a noticeable difference, isn't it? All of mine look like your hen, and none like your rooster. I guess it is pretty lucky, although I had been thinking I might try my hand at breeding them. I did notice that tonight some of them had the...

So yours are about the same age. The more I read, the more photos I'm seeing of the red skin color on the combs at this age. Since mine have none of that, I had been under the impression that redness doesn't start to appear until they get older. But now I have to wonder if I actually have all...

Yours does seem to have more red color than mine. And the skin is a lot more bumpier. How old is yours? I tried to look at the tails of mine to see if there were differences. They all look like they are the same length and shape. I will go and look at the actual feathers for blockiness and...

Hi all, I've been directed to this thread for some insight on sexing my 5 lavender Ameraucana chicks. I've read through page 80 so far, and picked up a tip where someone mentioned that if they have three distinct rows of "pearls" coming in, then they are a male, and only one distinct row means...