Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[maryhysong]

^^^^^^^^^^this is my goal^^^^^^^^^^^^ She is the best blue I have ever seen. IMO, LOL.


This rooster even has awesome lacing on his leg feather!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe this??????

So is this the type of lacing/coloring we are striving for in blue Ameraucana?

 

[Blue Hill Farm]

Wow, those Andies are stunning!

I know that's the kinda lacing I'm after! Not sure I'll ever get there, but half the fun is in trying.

Heatherscooby77, do you have any pictures of your project birds? I'd sure love to see them when/if you had time.

 

[Blue Hill Farm]

A neat way to tell the difference between edging and lacing is to take the feather in question and put it up against a white surface. The edging will be clear against the white and the lacing will be dark. The reason being true lacing results from more pigmentation along the outside of each feather (remember blue is just a dilution of black), while edging is thought to be the result of lack of pigmentation along the feathers outer edge. I thought that was pretty cool.

 

[tigercreek]

What do you think about this Andalusian's lacing?

I like the body type more than the lacing. I agree with heatherscooby77. I think it might be a single copy of the pattern gene, but I am getting way over my head talking genetics! I might prefer to use her rather than a better laced bird for the body type though. You can double the Pg gene if that is what is needed, faster than you can get the size back I believe.....

 

[tigercreek]

I think its fair. She probably only has one copy, or she is based on columbian. We will see what the others think..........

I thought the blue lacing is the result of Pg and coloumbian (Co)???

 

[tigercreek]

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Stan, I am redoing my web page. Go to my profile for BYC. The albums are at the bottom of the page.

Put me on your list for spring eggs!! This is something all blue breeders should be working with...If you pass around your work, everyone can share and be that much ahead... wouldn't this be a tremendious boost for blue Ameraucanas!!!

 

[Blue Hill Farm]

I thought the blue lacing is the result of Pg and coloumbian (Co)???

and melanotic (Ml)

 

[tigercreek]

and melanotic (Ml)

Yes, that too...thanks for the reminder....

 

[Blue Hill Farm]

Yes, that too...thanks for the reminder....

No problem.

I'd like to know if anyone has blue Ams based on birchen (ER) instead of extended black and IF (this is the big question, hehe) the lacing expresses better on such a base?

 

[tigercreek]

No problem.

I'd like to know if anyone has blue Ams based on birchen (ER) instead of extended black and IF (this is the big question, hehe) the lacing expresses better on such a base?

Jean??? I think she posted that her blacks were ER based, and she said she was working on blues ????