Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[pips&peeps]

A great price too!!!

Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

 

[jeremy]

This is one of my favorite 2011 pullets, a BW I call Periwinkle. I love her beard and muffs!

This potentially might be her mom, my near constant broody Judy. I say might because Judy has done nothing but raise chicks this year, she's on her fourth and final brood right now, 2 Wheaten Olive Eggers that luckily for me turned out to be pullets!

 

[draye]

My one and only Lavender Ameraucana has started laying this past week, 4 eggs so far.. She is laying about every other day.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

pips&peeps :

A great price too!!!

Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

I'll say!!!!!!

It's still early for candling so maybe I'll see even more signs of life on day 10 .... greedy creature that I am!

 

[tancurls]

I have one EE she just started lying!! I am getting on egg a day that is army green. She was hatched a week before easter and I raised her in my living room until she was ready for the coop. Needles to say she is super spoiled. She is an organic cage free spoiled rotten sweetheart!!! I am too new to be able to post pics.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Can you get a side shot- I am wondering if he's splash wheaten. Seems cooperative enough!

What a cutie.

Here u go thank you!!!

http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae336/vebyrd36/4ebd0303.jpg

http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae336/vebyrd36/eb44c5cf.jpg

http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae336/vebyrd36/97c01692.jpg

Hmmm...the head looks pinkish/buff and the body looks like it carries blues. I'm not familiar with Splash Wheaten enough in chicks, but I don't think that is what we have here. The pics are so bright, it is hard to pick up accurate colors in the body. Also, I'm seeing a greenish hue to the chick's legs....which of course makes me think it is an EE. Most Wheaten Ameraucanas have lighter legs at this age that eventually darken.

Try to take a pic of your chick in the shade or even on an overcast day.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Welcome to BYC and congrats on your green eggs! There is a thread dedicated to EE's and when you get the chance to post pics, be sure to post them there for us to see!

 

[pips&peeps]

Split male I kept from Cindy's eggs:

The tail is a bit high, but I like everything else about him!!! Thank you Cindy.

 

[NoisyCricket]

Split male I kept from Cindy's eggs:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_blacksplit.jpg

He is beautiful

If you don't mind a few questions from someone new to all this...
If I understand correctly, a split is when you cross two colors. What two colors is he a split of? What color hen would you use him on?​

 

[Illia]

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He is beautiful

If you don't mind a few questions from someone new to all this...
If I understand correctly, a split is when you cross two colors. What two colors is he a split of? What color hen would you use him on?

A split is a bird carrying a recessive gene but because they only have one, they do not show it.

So black x lavender = Lav splits.

Buff x Silver = not splits

Just mutts.