Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[SteveH]

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Their backs are supposed to be moderate length and broad; breasts full and rounded. If "sleeker" refers to more slender bodied, it's not a desired trait.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Has anybody used Vitamin & Electrolytes in their Ameraucana water and had the egg shell change color?
I may have been a little heavy-handed when I was mixing the solution.

Lisa

 

[Chiko]

Does anyone have Silver Bantam Ameraucanas? I have 4, 4 week old babies and I want to know what they'll be like as adults. For some reason Google Images isn't working for me...Thank you! -Hector.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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Their backs are supposed to be moderate length and broad; breasts full and rounded. If "sleeker" refers to more slender bodied, it's not a desired trait.


Ahh ok thank you. All my Meredith chicks are REALLY sleek... I call them my little F-16's... they are long legged, lean bodied and fast.

 

[MobyQuail]

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forgive me,

I like big backs and I cannot lie...you other fellows can't deny, when a hen walks by with an itty bitty comb and a round thing in your face...

 

[Arizonachicken]

 

[Jferlisi]

So i have a black ameracauna roo with some gold leakage on his hackle feathers and i have a blue ameracauna cockerel with gold leakage on his back. Is this normal for roos or is it bad? Here is a pic of my blue

ETA his legs are not green and his comb is not that red, i dont get why they are in this pic
Here is my Black

 

[Christie Rhae]

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Too early for me to hazzard a guess, but there's a 50% chance it's male.

Are its legs and beak as yellow as they look in the pic?

LOL! Well it is good to know my odds! lol.
I was using a flash in the pics but I am pretty sure the color is fairly accurate. It is a wheaten so from what I understand this is normal?

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Too early for me to hazzard a guess, but there's a 50% chance it's male.

Are its legs and beak as yellow as they look in the pic?

LOL! Well it is good to know my odds! lol.
I was using a flash in the pics but I am pretty sure the color is fairly accurate. It is a wheaten so from what I understand this is normal?

No, they often have lighter legs as youngsters and darken to slate as they mature, but light = white-ish, never yellow. All Ameraucanas are supposed to have white skin...

 

[Christie Rhae]

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LOL! Well it is good to know my odds! lol.
I was using a flash in the pics but I am pretty sure the color is fairly accurate. It is a wheaten so from what I understand this is normal?

No, they often have lighter legs as youngsters and darken to slate as they mature, but light = white-ish, never yellow. All Ameraucanas are supposed to have white skin...

Gosh maybe my camera lighting is off then. I don't have any other chick legs to compare it to. In my limited experience I would not describe it's legs as white. Definitely a pale yellow-ish. I have no doubts at all about it's parentage. So it must be my photography. I will take a look at this little guy in regular light tomorrow... maybe not with an orange back ground....lol