Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[chickendales]

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this look like one his silver to black breeding to improve size on the silvers

. . . . What? I didn't understand that.


Silver x Black just makes a black bird with slight silver leakage in the neck in females and in the shoulders too in males, as duckwing is recessive to solid black.

john breed silver to black toimprove size on his silvers then breed those babies back to silver once while u get funky through back

 

[Bravo]

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Very cool. Thanks Illia! The F2's have been in a wide variety of colorings, the least common of which has been white. I have one white/splash. The F1's were all white or white splash, though.

This reminds me, I need to send you a recent pic of Candy (my BCM pullet from your eggs). She's HUGE and probably only has 1 copper hackle feather to her name but she's a pretty girl and will be laying in a few weeks.

 

[Illia]

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I'm curious as to why you think that to be the case.

ETA; That was poorly worded........................ What makes you think gynadomorphs are becoming more commom and why hermaphrodites will be?

Well, maybe there's just enough technology to spread the word, but I see more and more cases, normal backyard cases, of gynadomorphs this year than in the last 4 years. Course, for all I know it's always been not too rare, I just personally notice a rise.

As for hermaphrodites, I don't know, I'm just saying if we're getting gender and hormonal based anomalies, why not?

Bravo - Really? My ONE pullet from that cockerel who died actually has the most perfect color I've ever had in my BCM's.

chickendales - Umm, yeah, Pips&peeps is doing that too, but hormonal anomalies is what we're talking about here, not weird color occurrences. What you're talking about is probably the fact that Silver x Black, - x Silver again creates 50% silver and 50% black birds with a lot of silver leakage.

 

[fowlman01]

I have seen male/female young and have had females change to look outwardly like males and have a rudimentary crow. So far I have never seen a male turn into a female and lay an egg.....I think that would be a plumbing issue. I saw these things long before we heard about GMO, although maybe we have more now.

Walt

 

[Illia]

What about half-and-half Gynandromorphs though Walt? What have you seen in your years? Any increase over the years?

 

[fowlman01]

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I have no idea, I didn't keep those kinds of records. What have I seen? Well......I spent birth to 35 years old in SF, so I guess I have seen most things.

I could not say if there is more or less...seems about the same to me, but nothing has been quite right since they stopped testing nuclear devices.

Walt

 

[pips&peeps]

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[SteveH]

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[BarnGoddess01]

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[EweSheep]

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