Ameraucana Projects Thread

[jerryse]

Are you still working on your cuckoo project? How is the egg color coming along? Do you mind telling me some of your process? Thanks! Cuckoo chickens are so pretty.

Here are some pullets . As for process I keep breeding back to black to improve .

 

[Chicken5555]

Here are some pullets . As for process I keep breeding back to black to improve .

Very nice. Thank you for sharing. When do you think you'll have hatching eggs available? I may be interested.

 

[jerryse]

Very nice. Thank you for sharing. When do you think you'll have hatching eggs available? I may be interested.

Spring . Late March or early April .

 

[chicken stalker]

After a few disastrous years, no thanks to predators, I finally have a few nice Lavender (Isabel) Wheaten Ameraucanas roosters. Now comes the time to choose a breeding roo. I've narrowed it down to two out of 5. Neither are perfect but not too bad in my opinion. I'm looking for opinions.

Roo #1 nice size, has wing bar and wheaten triangle on wing tip, tail feathers less breakage Flaws: very light wheaten coloration (perhaps carrying silver gene), leakage on chest and tail feathers

Roo#2. Smaller, normal wheaten coloration (diluted bc of lavender gene) flaws: smaller beard/muff, feather breakage (a common fault in lavenders)

 

[junebuggena]

After a few disastrous years, no thanks to predators, I finally have a few nice Lavender (Isabel) Wheaten Ameraucanas roosters. Now comes the time to choose a breeding roo. I've narrowed it down to two out of 5. Neither are perfect but not too bad in my opinion. I'm looking for opinions.

Roo #1 nice size, has wing bar and wheaten triangle on wing tip, tail feathers less breakage Flaws: very light wheaten coloration (perhaps carrying silver gene), leakage on chest and tail feathers





Roo#2. Smaller, normal wheaten coloration (diluted bc of lavender gene) flaws: smaller beard/muff, feather breakage (a common fault in lavenders)

I'd pick number 1, just based on overall build. He's not silver, by the way. Color issues can be cleaned up, but conformation is much more difficult to fix.

 

[cgmaster]

After a few disastrous years, no thanks to predators, I finally have a few nice Lavender (Isabel) Wheaten Ameraucanas roosters. Now comes the time to choose a breeding roo. I've narrowed it down to two out of 5. Neither are perfect but not too bad in my opinion. I'm looking for opinions.

Roo #1 nice size, has wing bar and wheaten triangle on wing tip, tail feathers less breakage Flaws: very light wheaten coloration (perhaps carrying silver gene), leakage on chest and tail feathers

Roo#2. Smaller, normal wheaten coloration (diluted bc of lavender gene) flaws: smaller beard/muff, feather breakage (a common fault in lavenders)

I'd use the first one, color is pretty easy to fix and even if he is S/s that is easily fixed just breed him to hens that are for sure gold based, maybe breed him with some regular wheaten hens just to be sure?

 

[pips&peeps]

I like the second one better nice back and transition to tail. The first one looks pinched to me.

 

[FreedomFarm13]

I say the first one. I think he only looks pinched in that second photo because of how he's standing. In the third photo his topline seems to flow much better. I do really love #2's comb, though. It has such neat and tidy little peas, but I agree with @junebuggena and @cgmaster about his conformation...it seems much nicer to me. And he's bigger, which is a good thing. I've seen way too many undersized wheatens and it's hard to get any good size with them. He's very beautiful, and I can't wait until I can get my Isabel Wheaten project going now! Still trying to find good self blue Ams somewhere that I can actually afford...Good luck with your birds!!

After a few disastrous years, no thanks to predators, I finally have a few nice Lavender (Isabel) Wheaten Ameraucanas roosters. Now comes the time to choose a breeding roo. I've narrowed it down to two out of 5. Neither are perfect but not too bad in my opinion. I'm looking for opinions.

 

[Shaffer]

Chicken Stalker,

Happy to see your project was successful.

 

[pips&peeps]

You can put them both over a couple wheaten girls and see who produces better offspring. You would be able to see what flaws are produced in a normal wheaten colored bird.