Ameraucana Projects Thread

[Saris]

It would. I'm considering working on a Cream Wheaten, considering my "Wheaten" isn't. His hatch mate sister lays olive eggs and his brother looks like a standard wheaten. They all hatched from blue eggs, but until I test this guy I won't know what egg color he'll pass on.

I just found out I'm getting some BW hatching eggs and I have a blue split to choc roo, so I was thinking it would be a fun project.

 

[tao chick]

Hi! I have just finished reading this thread...took me 4 days...I am interested in the genetics, but have no pure bred any things. Here is my rooster...
I don't know anything about him except that he is supposed to be an EE, was given to us last spring, don't even know how old he is. While we were away last summer we had our hatchery black australorp go broody and hatch out 6 eggs. Never saw 2 of the chicks, snake got them right away. The four that were left, 2 are black and lay green/olive eggs, the other 2 met the same fate with the snake. One was slightly lighter than black and the other was silverfish with a reddish spot on his back. So, our daughter,12, studied a bit of genetics in school and wants to hatch out some eggs from our white leghorn to see if she can get blue eggs, our black sex-linked because she is so friendly and a brownish EE hen. All are hatchery.
So, my questions, any ideas what we might get and, since we only have the one rooster, what would be the issues if we then hatched eggs from the ones we plan to hatch this spring. Obviously not going for any show stuff or anything, more concerned about health issues. Appreciate any advise, thanks!

He looks like he has some faverolle coloring. If his offspring layed green eggs then he probably carries a blue or green egg gene. The only way to know what he carries is to hatch crosses between him and some white egg layers. Blue is dominant and will come through if he carries it. BSLs are hard to predict offspring. I can't imagine health issues popping up unless you mate him with a sibling.

 

[carolinasculpture]

Great! Thank you! Interesting about favorelle, that is what I had wanted for a rooster, but a raccoon got him! Will be fun to see what turns up. His 2 black daughters are really cute with the body shape and muffs!

 

[jerryse]

Great! Thank you! Interesting about favorelle, that is what I had wanted for a rooster, but a raccoon got him! Will be fun to see what turns up. His 2 black daughters are really cute with the body shape and muffs!

Unless he has feathered legs I doubt Favorolle is involved . He is golden duckwing in color . That is one silver gene and one for red like in partridge . A very common EE color .

 

[tao chick]

Unless he has feathered legs I doubt Favorolle is involved . He is golden duckwing in color . That is one silver gene and one for red like in partridge . A very common EE color .

You're right. I forgot to look for feather legs.

 

[carolinasculpture]

Nope, no leg feathers...they were so cute of the chick we lost. I thought he as pretty standard EE. Is his comb normal for an EE roo? Thanks again!

 

[jerryse]

Nope, no leg feathers...they were so cute of the chick we lost. I thought he as pretty standard EE. Is his comb normal for an EE roo? Thanks again!

EE normally have a pea comb like his . Sometimes single comb . The reason for pea comb is the blue egg gene likes to travel with pea comb . You can get blue eggs with any comb but pea is preferred due to these genes traveling together .

 

[carolinasculpture]

Thanks again! I am looking forward to seeing what we get for chicks...now waiting for warmer weather and, hopefully, a broody!

 

[chicklover 1998]

Quote:
EE are mutts of the chicken world they can have any comb, and feather color, any egg color, any leg color, beard/muffs/tufts or not.

 

[jerryse]

EE are mutts of the chicken world they can have any comb, and feather color, any egg color, any leg color, beard/muffs/tufts or not.

correct