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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    not typical down pattern of anything I am familiar with... Closest in my experience would be mottled/split mottled but not a perfect match...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Interesting... Might help explain the prevelance of blood/meat spots in marans eggs.
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Here is a pic of a bielefelder trio
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    It looks like its got a lot of bielefelder in it... A pullet for that matter.
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Not always easy...especially a few years ago... to get breeders to respond to buyers they are unfamiliar with. I know, because when I first tried upgrading from ee to decent breeding stock, i couldnt even get an email back in response from any of the most well known breeders.... One doesnt need...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Please note that egg color doesn't make a chicken an ameraucana... They have to meet breed standards and colors as defined in the SOPs... + have to breed true to type and color at least 50% of the time + lay blue(ish) eggs. An ee on the other hand is usually a mix of different breeds that...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Looks like you got yourself a 100% pure genuine EE... nothing wrong with that. Its where most of us started....
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Showoff!!!! :-) Great color.
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Medium is normal but I am breeding for egg size and consistently get large and extra large from my blacks and especially my blues. Even a few jumbos ...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Jerry I am glad you remain active on this thread. Always interesting insight and ALWAYS some pretty cool projects going on. What color Ams did you use to get those colors in F1.... and did you carry out anything past F1. I know this isnt the forum for this type of discussion so please feel free...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    One persons blue is another persons green.. Type and color matter.... Egg color is very subjective and if you look at the egg color chart there are many shades of blue/green that are listed. I would only worry if the egg was a true green or brown... Other than that no worries. I have yet to see...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    My experience is that it will get worse....
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    One copy of the "beard" gene means the following... All these birds will present with beards( though probably not as full as one with 2 genes) because that gene in dominant over the clean faced gene. If you breed 2 birds together that have only 1 gene for beards, 25% will be clean faced( no...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    The best way to insure they are truly Ameraucanas is to buy them from a reputable breeder. After that, go to the ABC website and read the descriptions of each recognized type and compare your birds to this description and compare to pictures.... Finally, if you breed them you should be able to...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    unfortunately the gold leakage you describe will likely increase with each molt. My first black am cockerel had a speck of red on his shoulders in yr 1 and it expanded significantly by year three. It also showed up in his neck hackles by year 2. I test bred him because of his great size and type...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Yes that is the basic idea... In this case it is actually slate over yellow skin on the legs....
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    I agree, the culling and processing part of breeding /raising chickens is the hardest part. I've got three cockerels that i should have culled at least 2 months ago that i still havent done yet .... Good luck!
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    I wonder how much of this aggression is related to free ranging? I got chickens three years ago and have been lucky with all my roosters. I've only had one rooster show any aggression at all (a black am) and that was when i entered the pen with the red bottom of a waterer in his face . He...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    I only see one pic and it looks like a wheaten cockerel. Hard to see from my phone if anything looks out of place but from what I see it is true to type and color
  20. johnderosa1

    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Hmmm... Then I just need to the blue egg back... Certainly can be done but you might be forgetting a few things... Type, eye color, slate legs, white skin, red ear lobes... Just sayin.
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