Amerucana rooster colour question.

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HorseSlave

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So (assuming this picture uploaded) this sexy beast hatched in late January. His parents are purebred Ameraucanas. I initially thought that since he wasn't a solid black colour, that he would therefore be considered an EE, and I was going to find him another home, since he's a full brother to my hens, and I don't want to inbreed. But it was pointed out on a Facebook site that he may be considered silver. And looking at pictures from the Ameraucana Breeders site, I'm starting to wonder too. He has been progressively getting more white to him. I'd hate to send off a fantastic rooster. If he's show quality, I'd rather just get him another set of ladies (being greedy like that).
 
Do some research on APA standards for Ameraucana varieties. The accepted colors of Ameraucanas can sometime be crossed and sometimes not. I am famililue with the blue/black/ splash color group and the wheaten/blue wheaten/splash strains, but I know very little about the others. What color(s) are the parents?
 
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The Phenotype of your Ameraucana is "Birchen Ameraucana" , how this happened? well one line of you Ameraucana is based on Birchen instead of Extended black, birchen can fully melanized(make them all black) with a few melainzers, maybe this melanizers were not inherited by him.. While Birchen is not recognized as Brown Red the only difference in them is the sex linked gold gene, Brown reds are gold based s+ and the Birchens are Silver based S / here Birchen Ameraucanas
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HorseSlave said:
If I remember correctly, it was black over a lavender hen.
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This would explain what you have . You have a black split for lavender with silver leakage . Lavender males have a silvery look in the hackles and saddle . This allows leakage to be missed by the breeder . When crossed to black it shows up . This is how I test the lavenders for leakage . A clean lavender split rooster over lavender hens will give you a better chance of lavender males without leakage . Hens do not show leakage but can pass it on .
 
We bred two of our Ameraucana's and one of them looked like that! The other was my boy and he was fully black. They were both beautiful

Here is my Lavendar Rooster, and possibly the hen that produced them.
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Luna (She's the only Ameraucana we have that is not Lavendar)
 
PoultryQueen101 said:
We bred two of our Ameraucana's and one of them looked like that! The other was my boy and he was fully black. They were both beautiful

Here is my Lavendar Rooster, and possibly the hen that produced them.
Silver


Luna (She's the only Ameraucana we have that is not Lavendar)
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The hen is a Easter egger color probably with lavender if she produced lavender chicks . The last several years I have seen egg auctions with EE hens and a Lavender Ameraucana rooster over them . So your birds may trace back to a mix like that .
 
jerryse said:
PoultryQueen101 said:
We bred two of our Ameraucana's and one of them looked like that! The other was my boy and he was fully black. They were both beautiful Here is my Lavendar Rooster, and possibly the hen that produced them. Silver Luna (She's the only Ameraucana we have that is not Lavendar)
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The hen is a Easter egger color probably with lavender if she produced lavender chicks . The last several years I have seen egg auctions with EE hens and a Lavender Ameraucana rooster over them . So your birds may trace back to a mix like that .
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Greetings! Mixing colors will get a breeding program nowhere until one understands how colors work, and even then one only does it judiciously for specific, targeted reasons. If you'd really like to learn about SOP breeding, I'd recommend getting other Black Ameraucans and working with them for a while until you become more confirmed as a breeder.
 

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