12 F1 eggs "Fluffy Feathered Ameraucanas"

[wolftracks]

 

[alicefelldown]

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I THINK your best chance at fluffy babies would to be to mate the chicks from these eggs to each other. Unless you also win F1 eggs from another source. If you breed the resulting chicks back to pure Ameraucanas you will get all smooth feathered babies again. (Right, guys?)

Good luck with the auction! And good luck to everyone bidding!

Correct. To get fluffy you would either mate these smooth carrying F1 birds either with each other (for 25% fluffy offspring) or with another fluffy bird (50% fluffy offspring). Think of them like the black/lav or coronation splits.

I would not recommend mating an smooth carrying F1 to any smooth pure ameraucanas. h (hookless) is recessive, so it needs two copies to express. If you mate a carrier to a non-carrier you would be unable to tell which of your (all smooth) offspring would be your next generation of carriers. I hope that makes sense!

 

[Chickhick]

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I THINK your best chance at fluffy babies would to be to mate the chicks from these eggs to each other. Unless you also win F1 eggs from another source. If you breed the resulting chicks back to pure Ameraucanas you will get all smooth feathered babies again. (Right, guys?)

Good luck with the auction! And good luck to everyone bidding!

Correct. To get fluffy you would either mate these smooth carrying F1 birds either with each other (for 50% fluffy offspring) or with another fluffy bird (100% fluffy offspring). Think of them like the black/lav or coronation splits.

I would not recommend mating an smooth carrying F1 to any smooth pure ameraucanas. h (hookless) is recessive, so it needs two copies to express. If you mate a carrier to a non-carrier you would be unable to tell which of your (all smooth) offspring would be your next generation of carriers. I hope that makes sense!

Wouldn't that make it 50% fluffy offspring if one of these chicks was mated to a pure fluffy bird (the other 50% carriers), and 25% fluffy when carriers are mated together (with 50% carriers and 25% pure smooth)? I did a Punnet square and that is what I came out with.

I could be wrong... seems a long time since high school genetics!

 

[alicefelldown]

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You'd think with how many times I've posted that in 'What is wrong' thread my fingers would have fully memorized it! You are correct - I shouldn't post when I'm falling asleep.

 

[wolftracks]

 

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Hmmmmm

 

[Hurley]

 

[wolftracks]

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[Hurley]

OK, I admit it, I really would like some of these birds. Was contemplating a breeding project between Silkies and Ameraucanas until I found that thread.

Not to mention the timing is perfect for the arrival of my lavender Ameraucana hatching eggs.

*braces for a shark attack*