Ameraucana Projects Thread

[Manningjw]

Hey everyone, I am thinking about a project bird of my own with the end goal being large numbers of blue eggs.

I was thinking about crossing a Wheaten Ameraucana Rooster with White Leghorn hens, then selecting a single rooster out of this in order to breed back again to pure white leghorns. The rooster should have Blue/blue genes which would result in 50% blue egg laying offspring when crossed back to White Leghorns. They theoretically could be selected out by the pea comb being linked to the blue egg gene.

After 2 generations of selecting the pea comb off spring roos to breed back to pure White Leghorns my plan would be to cross breed the B/b off spring to get 25% B/B, 50% B/b and 25% b/b.

The difficult bit would be selecting the birds with B/B on the 3rd generation, Finding out if a rooster has both B genes would be easier by breeding him to a single comb hen, if ANY of his chicks have a single comb he only has 1 blue egg laying gene. The hens could be selected the same way but with a single comb rooster, the problem I have is keeping so many Roos around only to determine presence of blue egg genes.

Does this sound like it would work as a plan? Am I miss-understanding the Blue egg gene and pea comb inheritance?

 

[jerryse]

NOt trying to discourage your project but cream legbars are already available.Been around for quite sometime in Europe.Leghorn was part of the original mix.Autosexing blue eggs and single comb.Yes there is a pea comb/blue egg linkage but it not iron clad.You can get blue eggs with other comb types.

 

[Manningjw]

NOt trying to discourage your project but cream legbars are already available.Been around for quite sometime in Europe.Leghorn was part of the original mix.Autosexing blue eggs and single comb.Yes there is a pea comb/blue egg linkage but it not iron clad.You can get blue eggs with other comb types.

As much as I like the cream legbar idea it seems like they are not terribly productive layers from what I have read. I imagine this has to due with the use of Brown leghorns instead of white leghorns.

I also saw a number of people have green eggs from their cream legbars.

 

[jerryse]

I have used white leghorn before.They do boost egg production.You may get barring from them I did.My cuckoo line in my barring project traces back to production white leghorns.Sure does take the green tint out.Nice big blue eggs and lots of them.Have not revealed this before.Only a few knew.Good luck on your project.Keep us informed.

 

[chickenmomma16]

Just read all 10 pages... Neat projects everyone! I have been thinking about either doing a project or picking an already recognized color and improving it but haven't made up my mind yet. The comment about crossing leghorns with Ameraucanas reminded me about a 6mo old Blue Ameraucana x White Leghorn that I was just about ready to put in freezer camp. Thought I would offer him to anyone in WA that would like to add him to their project. He came out of a HUGE (jumbo size in stores) Leghorn egg. He doesn't have a beard but has a peacomb.

I already have my main AM. x rooster. Don't need 2!


Here is the Leghorn x :

Here is both my boys. They are out of the same Blue Ameraucana roo

 

[Manningjw]

Just read all 10 pages... Neat projects everyone! I have been thinking about either doing a project or picking an already recognized color and improving it but haven't made up my mind yet. The comment about crossing leghorns with Ameraucanas reminded me about a 6mo old Blue Ameraucana x White Leghorn that I was just about ready to put in freezer camp. Thought I would offer him to anyone in WA that would like to add him to their project. He came out of a HUGE (jumbo size in stores) Leghorn egg. He doesn't have a beard but has a peacomb.

I already have my main AM. x rooster. Don't need 2!

Here is the Leghorn x :




Here is both my boys. They are out of the same Blue Ameraucana roo

Well HEY THERE!

I contacted you a while back regarding your big Roo posted on Craigslist. I wish I had a home for him and I would definitely be interested in him, it would save me 6 months of raising my own. Unfortunately where i live now I cannot own Roos and it will take between 4-6 months to close on the house I am looking to buy.

I keep hoping I can convince my parents to adopt a rooster until I close my(hopefully it will be mine anyhow) house but so far that hasn't worked...

 

[chickenmomma16]

Just read all 10 pages... Neat projects everyone! I have been thinking about either doing a project or picking an already recognized color and improving it but haven't made up my mind yet. The comment about crossing leghorns with Ameraucanas reminded me about a 6mo old Blue Ameraucana x White Leghorn that I was just about ready to put in freezer camp. Thought I would offer him to anyone in WA that would like to add him to their project. He came out of a HUGE (jumbo size in stores) Leghorn egg. He doesn't have a beard but has a peacomb. I already have my main AM. x rooster. Don't need 2! Here is the Leghorn x : Here is both my boys. They are out of the same Blue Ameraucana roo

Well HEY THERE! I contacted you a while back regarding your big Roo posted on Craigslist. I wish I had a home for him and I would definitely be interested in him, it would save me 6 months of raising my own. Unfortunately where i live now I cannot own Roos and it will take between 4-6 months to close on the house I am looking to buy. I keep hoping I can convince my parents to adopt a rooster until I close my(hopefully it will be mine anyhow) house but so far that hasn't worked...

Glad we ran into eachother on BYC! Man I wish someone would take him! I hate to process him. He doesn't have an annoying crow and he is good to the ladies. Bummer about the house. Tell them to speed it up! I'm holding off as long as I can but my DH keeps comenting on how good "Noodle" will taste...

 

[Hangtown Farms]

love all the projects. Mine is not really related but still cool. I am starting to breed my blue Ameraucana hen. ( more of a green egg) to my white empordanesa rooster. I am hoping for some cool olive eggers as emp's lay a dark dark egg.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I also have a partridge pullet in with a barred EE for the same project.Autosexing is a great idea.

Cool to know that someone else is working on the same thing. My rooster is a sexlink from a red columbian EE style rooster on barred rock hens. The hens with him are a buckeye, a wyandotte, and a bunch of basic red/brown patterned hens with big beard/muffs and small combs, then I have the blue partridge and red partridge hens that lay nice clear blue eggs. The EE hens all came from a guy that got them from the feed store who gets their chicks from Dunlap hatchery in Idaho, I was surprised to see such good pencilling on the breasts of them

 

[Fyremare]

Way back when we still had black ameraucanas, we had a black hen get in with our silver laced wyandottes. We hatched some eggs just for EE's but most came out with great lacing. I would love to work on laced ameraucanas again some day

I have been playing with the Wyandotte cross, but haven't had many actually hatch. Although I do believe this cockerel is from a Blue Wheaten Splash Ams (Wayne Meredith line) and a Silver Laced Wyandotte hen. he got her legs and pattern, a little of the wheaten in his saddle, but his lacing is blue! His muff and beard are nothing to brag about but he has them. Not sure what his comb will be yet, so far it looks like a pea comb. Been thinking of putting him with some light blue Ams hens. He is about 4 1/2 months in these photos...