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I wouldn't worry too much about the 3 rows, I've had some very definite pullets have 3 row peas from early ages. Of course, this was in Easter Eggers, not Ameraucanas, so there may be a difference there. So far my Ameraucana pullets have all had small, thin peas and the boys had thick, three row...

I would love to toe punch, since it is one big stress when they're young instead of all those little stresses every single time you have to change their bands (every 1-2 weeks). But I've been worried about something getting stuck in the hole and ripping, holes healing up (I hear this is why you...

Green is definitely normal for the first day or so. Congrats!!

Those are very pretty EEs. I know this because they have green legs and irregular markings (not standard for any Ameraucana color).

NICE thread!! Thanks for posting this.

Bercheron? Do you mean birchen? What are you breeding him to? Confused. If you bred Wheaten to Wheaten, you should get all Wheaten chicks, there will be slight variation in the shades of the browns, the patterning, etc. If you bred Blue Wheaten to Wheaten, here are some Wheaten genetics for...

If you can, would love to see a photo of those eggs

But I'm guessing that the gold leakage is not useful in any way?

Ah, love your numbers, that's what I'm trying on this hatch. I've decided that anything below 35% is too low, and anything above 65% is too high; better to keep towards the low end of that spectrum for 18 days, then the high end for lockdown. I've got a test batch in for this humidity right now...

That makes me wonder why it would make a difference... I recently had awful luck with low humidity and have sworn off low humidity hatches in general, but I'm getting Ameraucana eggs (real ones! from a real breeder!) next week and now you've got me wondering.

Ah, I didn't know that Ameraucana are usually larger than EEs, my EE's have all been huge but I think most of it's bone rather than weight. Hatchery EEs are so gamey!

Hm, technically they would be non-standard Ameraucanas (what I would call an Easter Egger), since you're not really supposed to breed two colors together. However, you might get some birds that look like either one of the colors, as well as some that have a few off-color feathers. I'm thinking...

Nice looking birds! It does look like the rooster's a little hard on the hens (photo 4 you can see her damaged feathers from treading), but at least from the photos it looks like he's being polite. Those slate legs are incredible. Your roo does look like a mix, but the black hens looks pure. The...

Welcome to BYC and to this thread I'm sorry about your previous chicken losses. There are loads of people on this site who can help with breeding advice. There is another Ameraucana thread that is incredibly dedicated to current breed standards here if you want to head over and take a look...

It pretty much cracks me up that these poor kids have fertility problems because of the rumplessness The lethal gene connected with the tufts is what scared me away from trying to breed Araucanas, though I would love to have a few in an Ameraucana breeding program.

The fertility problems actually stem from the fact that they have no capacity for a tail. This means that hens don't have the tail leverage to lift their vents higher and keep them open for the roo during breeding. Along the same thread, the roo can't expose his vent as well. In the case of the...

They're fluffy Easter Eggers

Wow! Agreed, what the heck? That looks much more like a blue.

I agree, better pics would help. From these photos she doesn't look pure to me, doesn't look that much like a Blue Wheaten either, but she is pretty.

What is the difference between slate and grey? Slate and black? Does the leg color differ between standard Ameraucana colors? My blacks seem to have darker legs than my blues, I don't know why. The blues have the blueish grey legs that I've always heard referred to as slate. The blacks look...