Ameraucana Projects Thread

[hebertchick12]

It will take several generations to get that pattern and remove the wheaten genes.  That is going to be an uphill fight.  Then you would have egg color issues and feathered legs and then there is the yellow skin vs white skin..... That cross would be a hard one to get over to the Ams side.  I would pick something with fewer issues.  If I was going to do it I would start with black ams not wheaten.  There are other breeds that are Blue partridge.  I have Blue partridge rocks I created from crossing blue rocks and partridge rocks.  Took a long time to get that pattern back.  Luckily I didn't have other issues to worry about.

Thanks! I am actually getting a black ameraucana rooster to breed with my lavenders. This is just backyard fun... I will do more research and keep Yall updated!

 

[cgmaster]

what do you guys think of this one? It's about 8 or 9 weeks old its dad is my wheaten ameraucana LF rooster and its mom is my buff laced white cornish bantam hen (I'm not sure if that's what the color is actually called)its a more even color in person BTW gold throughout none of that darker color

 

[RandyAruba]

Hallo ameraucana people, i was wondering how the barred Ameraucana project is going, and wanted to share some info,


I saw that some breeders try to make a barred color ameraucana but the Barring gene has a domininant resecive gene of yellow leg offspring so i did an experiment here on the island of Aruba. And found out that by crossing a purebreed barred rock rooster to a black or black spotted white or white spotted black with pinkish white leg Aruban jungle fowl, will give u 100% white legged-barred color offspring, good source to make the barred Ameraucana most want, so find out around if you can find some pinkish white jungle fowl near your home or state in black color or similar as i did mentioned and use the barred offspring roosters to black and white ameraucana ( may use White ameraucana with silver gene) purebred and use the same methode of the making of legbars to breed u should and up with nice slate color barred ameraucana offsprings at F3 then use F3 offspring rooster to black ameraucana to make the blood line good

Hope this help a bit I am on that project right now i will post pictures in about1.5 year i wish u all the best with the project.

And sorry i cant send eggs to the US, only method if u travel with them as ilegal entry to US

 

[jerryse]

Here is a cuckoo cockerel . Several generations into this project . No yellow skin or legs .

 

[RandyAruba]

Here is a cuckoo cockerel . Several generations into this project . No yellow skin or legs .

It looks good but still has not a complete slate colored leg, now u r so far breed that rooster to black females ameraucana, its nice hope every thing goes good with the projecr, i was making a buff black tailed ameraucana but still not getting the black feathers out of the wings of the females, i tried a couple of times to post the pictures but does not load and automatically rejected from the site hopefully soon a could send them they r nice looking birds

 

[jerryse]

It looks good but still has not a complete slate colored leg, now u r so far breed that rooster to black females ameraucana, its nice hope every thing goes good with the projecr, i was making a buff black tailed ameraucana but still not getting the black feathers out of the wings of the females, i tried a couple of times to post the pictures but does not load and automatically rejected from the site hopefully soon a could send them they r nice looking birds

Black tailed buff were produced while trying to breed buff . Buff was finally achieved The mottled legs are caused by the barring gene .Mottling project has the same problem . Chocolate project has chocolate legs . Progress is being made but the genes only allow so much .

 

[Manningjw]

Black tailed buff were produced while trying to breed buff . Buff was finally achieved The mottled legs are caused by the barring gene .Mottling project has the same problem . Chocolate project has chocolate legs . Progress is being made but the genes only allow so much .

Yep, slate wont really be possible with a barred bird because of color inhibition directly related to the barring gene. Pretty easy to see when you produce both black and barred birds from the same stock and the black feathered birds have dark slate/black legs and the barred birds look like yours.

Here are my 3 remaining birds from the 'project' 2 barred 1 black from the same parentage. My barring gene comes distantly from commercial white leghorn, the lines aren't clean but i still enjoy them.






Sadly I lost my only pure black Ameraucana to a raccoon so I only have 3 of her daughters to work with now. I really wont be able to produce a "Barred Ameraucana" but I think a barred/bearded homozygous blue egg gene chicken will be good enough for me

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[jerryse]

I think eventually the leg color issues will be accepted for what it is . A lot of haggling between here and there . They are after all genetically slate/black . I do not see other breed clubs making a big fuss over this issue . In the end it comes down to a membership vote .

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I think eventually the leg color issues will be accepted for what it is . A lot of haggling between here and there . They are after all genetically slate/black . I do not see other breed clubs making a big fuss over this issue . In the end it comes down to a membership vote .

The white crested cuckoo polish has white legs. The club realized that it is part if the genetics and accepted it

 

[jerryse]

The white crested cuckoo polish has white legs. The club realized that it is part if the genetics and accepted it

That is my point . We even referred to the Polish breed having only slate legs when we chose slate for the leg color of Ameraucana .