Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Reyvaughn]

I can finally join in on the Ameraucana fun! Over a month ago I decided to mainly focus on Ameraucanas, Orps and Cochins (LF and bantam) - maybe Marans... Anyways, I got my first 4 birds from Noriko, and they are from John Blehm's lines.
Here is a picture of them with the Lav Orps...

I am hoping to keep the wheaten cockerel.
I got another batch of 4 chicks from Noriko about 5 weeks ago but I lost three of them. The one that's left I am pretty sure is a pullet.

On October 1st I went to Erin's (Msbear) swap and bought two of Peachick's breeding hens from this year.
Here they are...

I want to name the blue wheaten girl something that sounds like she could be the Russian circus's bearded lady. Her beard is huge and it swings when she shakes her head.

Just this weekend I went to pick up the other 5 BW/W Ameraucanas I bought from BYC member Madamwlf. These 5 were hatched from Peachick's eggs and are now 6 months old.

I named the cockerel Dorian. He did have a beard... The girls gave him a shave, lol! They gave me a pretty, blue egg yesterday that was fertile.

I've been considering getting a couple of lavender and black Ameraucanas, but I don't have the facilities to separate by color yet. Plus, I like being able to color sex by 6wks old with the wheatens!

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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I'm going to be "frizzling" my Blue Ameraucanas but I hesitate to call them Ameraucanas or a project. I'm just having fun!! (White Rock Bantam Frizzle in my avatar gets the pleasure of starting my flock of hopefully blue, muffed and bearded, blue egg laying frizzles.

- I hope!

)

 

[Bravo]

I hope it is ok if I post this here since technically it is not completley related to Ameraucanas but mixes using a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana rooster.

A few weeks ago I posted about BW Am crosses to EE hens resulting in offspring that feathered similar to Blue Wheatens and was based on the sex of the birds.

I just thought it was strange that the Wheaten genetics would express in all progeny.

Here is what all of the boys from the cross look like:

And the girls (some look wheaten and some look buff-ish)

I had 2 batches of chicks that feathered out exactly the same. The mothers were all different but shared the same father who was an EE roo with silver duckwing patterning.

Any idea how I managed to create birds that are able to be sexed based on their color patterns using a recessive Blue Wheaten genetics? I'm still very confused.

My goal with these breedings was to refine my blue egg project I've been working on with EE's for the F3 generation.

 

[Illia]

Wheaten isn't recessive to duckwing, that's how it worked.

Wheaten x Duckwing makes for males that look like either, females that look like darkened Wheatens with slight patterning, sometimes gold on the neck.

The mother to these was obviously carrying silver, making it a sex-linked pairing too. Unless that Wheaten cockerel on the far left background is from the pairing too, then it looks like you used both gold based and silver based hens.


I'm guessing the mother hen was either pure silver duckwing or silver wheaten x duckwing. Some of those girls look exactly like a Wheaten, some look like my Duckwing x Wheaten EE's I've had.

 

[chicken stalker]

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my lavender hen.

You know I love her! Did you share your AWESOME news here yet?

You need to!!!

Hooray for Lavs!

I think I mentioned it here. The issue will be out on news stands November 15th. For those of you that missed it, Miss Madonna (the lavender hen above)will be in Vogue magazine along with a colorful egg basket of mine. I don't know what shot they are using of her but she was definatly meant to be a model!

 

[chickendales]

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the remind me of salmon favs

 

[sonew123]

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You know I love her! Did you share your AWESOME news here yet?

You need to!!!

Hooray for Lavs!

I think I mentioned it here. The issue will be out on news stands November 15th. For those of you that missed it, Miss Madonna (the lavender hen above)will be in Vogue magazine along with a colorful egg basket of mine. I don't know what shot they are using of her but she was definatly meant to be a model!

She is beyond stunning Karen!!! I love her coloring-perfect!!!

 

[Illia]

I'll be looking forward to seeing that beauty in the Vogue mag.

 

[Bravo]

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The BW's in the photo are pure from Meredith stock (destined to be chicken enchiladas lol). I went back and checked my records and the mothers of the first batch were EE Roo X White Leghorn mixes and the mothers of the second batches were various EE hens of unknown origins X EE Roo (same as the roo crossed to the leghorns). So all of the mothers in both batches share the same father. There were 6 different mothers of these chicks.

If all of the mothers were carrying silver (which they could have inherited from their father) then it creates sexlinks? Sorry if I keep repeating the same question, I'm trying to understand

Can you help me identify the EE girls that show the duckwing influence? I can trace them back to their mother and hopefully figure out who is carrying it.

 

[flower]

Chicken stalker would you please post additional pictures of your Lavender ?