Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[AmCanyonStables]

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Yes, which means the black rooster had Silver in him, and you got the 50% luck of a pure Silver.

So, Illia - that still does not mean I can call her a Silver Ameraucana, does it? I think if I used her for breeding silvers I would still want to call them EEs, right?.
If I could call her a silver am, and I bred her to her father, would I get silver every time? I might do that anyway, as I think they are so pretty, but I would not want to mislead anyone.

Oh, and edited to add - obviously from my other post I have at least one black Am pullet, and 4 blues. If my roo is a silver carrier, can I get silver from the Black pullet, and what about the blues? These are from Pips and Peeps, I think she does not do silver, so they should not be carriers.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Yes, which means the black rooster had Silver in him, and you got the 50% luck of a pure Silver.

So, Illia - that still does not mean I can call her a Silver Ameraucana, does it? I think if I used her for breeding silvers I would still want to call them EEs, right?.
If I could call her a silver am, and I bred her to her father, would I get silver every time? I might do that anyway, as I think they are so pretty, but I would not want to mislead anyone.

Pretty sure you will get some silvers, if not all, if you breed her back to her father. And they will be better for having the black already crossed into them.

 

[Shaffer]

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Yes, which means the black rooster had Silver in him, and you got the 50% luck of a pure Silver.

So, Illia - that still does not mean I can call her a Silver Ameraucana, does it? I think if I used her for breeding silvers I would still want to call them EEs, right?.
If I could call her a silver am, and I bred her to her father, would I get silver every time? I might do that anyway, as I think they are so pretty, but I would not want to mislead anyone.

Oh, and edited to add - obviously from my other post I have at least one black Am pullet, and 4 blues. If my roo is a silver carrier, can I get silver from the Black pullet, and what about the blues? These are from Pips and Peeps, I think she does not do silver, so they should not be carriers.

AmCanyonStables,
If your birds are large you may want to discuss this subject with John Blehm. Large silvers are scarce. He may have some input or help.

 

[SteveH]

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So, Illia - that still does not mean I can call her a Silver Ameraucana, does it? I think if I used her for breeding silvers I would still want to call them EEs, right?.
If I could call her a silver am, and I bred her to her father, would I get silver every time? I might do that anyway, as I think they are so pretty, but I would not want to mislead anyone.

Oh, and edited to add - obviously from my other post I have at least one black Am pullet, and 4 blues. If my roo is a silver carrier, can I get silver from the Black pullet, and what about the blues? These are from Pips and Peeps, I think she does not do silver, so they should not be carriers.

AmCanyonStables,
If your birds are large you may want to discuss this subject with John Blehm. Large silvers are scarce. He may have some input or help.

Though they vary a great deal, several of the Silvers that Jean blessed me with are currently as large or larger than the others of that age group.

 

[Terri O]

I am so excited....the Wheaton Ameracauna that did so well at out fair FINALLY laid an egg today! I thought she was a non-layer for sure...but there it was!

I was a little disappointed that it wasnt more blue...maybe in the future? Terri O

 

[MrsChickendad]

Got a question about my wheaten boy I am getting ready to take to the Michigan Fowl Fest in a couple weeks. He did well at the spring show (Best AOSB) but has lost a spur. How big of a deal is this? He's is good condition otherwise.

Should the spur caps be removed when getting them ready for show? If so, how far ahead?

 

[SteveH]

I decided to look up the discovery of lav, since the question was never answered here. The source quoted is Wikipedia, and I didn't search for evidence of its accurracy:
The lavender gene was first discovered in the Porcelain variety of Belgian Bearded d'Uccle bantams in 1972, and verified in 1980 (Crawford 1990, p. 139-140). Porcelain colored d'Uccle bantams were around as early as early as 1909 (La Basse-Coeur du Nord 2008), though the Porcelain variety was not recognized by the APA until 1964 (belgianduccle.org).

With lav being such a new discovery, and blue used to describe both laced blues and nonlaced blues, some useing self blue as a term for the incomplete dominate bl without the laceing, and others useing it as a term for the recessive lav................................. well, it's a bit of a mess. Since bl only works on black, lav working on at least both black and red, it seems to me eventually we'll probably see a seperation between breed varieties being called self blue and others being called lavender. I do have a small bit of understanding of the both complexity of the task, and the controversy involved, for the APA and ABA.

 

[Illia]

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Yes, which means the black rooster had Silver in him, and you got the 50% luck of a pure Silver.

So, Illia - that still does not mean I can call her a Silver Ameraucana, does it? I think if I used her for breeding silvers I would still want to call them EEs, right?.
If I could call her a silver am, and I bred her to her father, would I get silver every time? I might do that anyway, as I think they are so pretty, but I would not want to mislead anyone.

Oh, and edited to add - obviously from my other post I have at least one black Am pullet, and 4 blues. If my roo is a silver carrier, can I get silver from the Black pullet, and what about the blues? These are from Pips and Peeps, I think she does not do silver, so they should not be carriers.

It does mean you can call her such. Because both black and silver are just a certain E locus, and most blacks carry silver like Silvers do, she's pure Silver. Duckwings, Silver duckwings especially, are incredibly difficult to get other genes thrown into without messing up the color, and hers looks right to me.

I'd call her and breeding her to other Silvers as Ameraucanas. . . She does lay blue eggs and have slate legs right?

Wait, before I carry on, explain to me again - Is one of her parents an EE or do you just call her an EE because she's a cross of two Ameraucana colors?

 

[Goose and Fig]

I don't know what Walt is going to say, but I would call the silver pullet's offspring with her black father "splits" before I'd call them EEs. I don't call my lavs that are bred to blacks EEs. If you can expect an accepted color (that will breed true) in the offspring they should be called ameraucanas.

(well- maybe project ameraucana in case of the lav if you want to get technical about it)

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

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Interesting!