Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Goose and Fig]

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You can use the wheaten girls to make splits, but your f1s will look like EEs. I am not quite sure how you pick which ones to breed back to the buff roo. The girl that knows all about that , Illia, hasn't been here in a while. I am needing to know as well since I ended up with all boys after several tries.

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

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You can use the wheaten girls to make splits, but your f1s will look like EEs. I am not quite sure how you pick which ones to breed back to the buff roo. The girl that knows all about that , Illia, hasn't been here in a while. I am needing to know as well since I ended up with all boys after several tries.

Yes Illia and also you can PM JerrySE. He's a brilliant (but humble) geneticist.

 

[fowlman01]

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You can use the wheaten girls to make splits, but your f1s will look like EEs. I am not quite sure how you pick which ones to breed back to the buff roo. The girl that knows all about that , Illia, hasn't been here in a while. I am needing to know as well since I ended up with all boys after several tries.

Yes Illia and also you can PM JerrySE. He's a brilliant (but humble) geneticist.

It is good to find a humble geneticist.

Walt

 

[desertmarcy]

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Why are you culling them? As some folks have pointed out, they have good traits and possibly some faults. If you are looking for Lavs; I believe they should produce Lavs if they are all splits.

From what I was reading here, I thought the experts were advising to do that. I'm totally new to true Ameraucanas. If both birds have the crests, won't most of the offspring? I don't know for sure if they will produce lavenders, that would certainly be cool if they did

, I think the lavender birds are beautiful. But like I said earlier, the pullet has not been a very good layer, which means I'm holding on to this pair until spring probably before I see another egg. Which I could do

right now they are in a pen which I have relegated to hens that I don't want in my breeding program but that are still laying, the Ameraucana is the only one there that would lay blue eggs, so I'd know which are hers--but if I leave the cockerel in there, then I still don't have a place to put my extra spangled orloff cockerels

; I've got a lot of different breeds, so pen space is limited. Maybe Jean could chime in here and tell me what are the chances these would throw lavender. Do both parents have to have lavender gene to get lavender? Now maybe I misunderstood the seller, but this is what I wrote down that she told me: "Male is blue, hens are black and split lavender. Chicks should be blue, black & lavender". But when she said "chicks should be blue, black, and lavender", she was talking about the chicks that could hatch from her shipped eggs, only 2 hatched, the ones I posted pics of. Sounds like only her hens were split lavender, so in that case, could I still get any lavender from this pair? I'm so confused

Haven't seen an answer for this, maybe I missed it?

 

[kopeck]

So with all the Lavender talk thought I might just throw my rooster up here and see what the experts think.

To be honest I picked him up more due to convenience then anything that had to do with the breed. I wanted a rooster, I liked the looks of Ameraucanas and he was close by. The things I wonder about is in certain light there seems to be a little bit of a bronze color in his back, at first I thought it was just from dust baths but now I can see it's more a color thing, most of the time you simply don't notice it. His tail is a little funky but some and maybe all of that is to due with my Guinea Hen picking on him (she's the boss around here).

He's from the Harry Shaffer line.

I guess I'm wondering if he's any value to the project. He's been a good Rooster so far so either way is fine by me, I promise I wont tell him if he fails the critique.

K

 

[Muggsmagee]

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You can use Wheaten to improve Buff, but not the other way around. Jerry Segler has given me excellent advice in the past. You can find him on the ameraucana.org site.

 

[pips&peeps]

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From what I was reading here, I thought the experts were advising to do that. I'm totally new to true Ameraucanas. If both birds have the crests, won't most of the offspring? I don't know for sure if they will produce lavenders, that would certainly be cool if they did

, I think the lavender birds are beautiful. But like I said earlier, the pullet has not been a very good layer, which means I'm holding on to this pair until spring probably before I see another egg. Which I could do

right now they are in a pen which I have relegated to hens that I don't want in my breeding program but that are still laying, the Ameraucana is the only one there that would lay blue eggs, so I'd know which are hers--but if I leave the cockerel in there, then I still don't have a place to put my extra spangled orloff cockerels

; I've got a lot of different breeds, so pen space is limited. Maybe Jean could chime in here and tell me what are the chances these would throw lavender. Do both parents have to have lavender gene to get lavender? Now maybe I misunderstood the seller, but this is what I wrote down that she told me: "Male is blue, hens are black and split lavender. Chicks should be blue, black & lavender". But when she said "chicks should be blue, black, and lavender", she was talking about the chicks that could hatch from her shipped eggs, only 2 hatched, the ones I posted pics of. Sounds like only her hens were split lavender, so in that case, could I still get any lavender from this pair? I'm so confused

Haven't seen an answer for this, maybe I missed it?

I wouldn't use the birds with the crests. You don't know who is carrying lavender and both parents have to carry it .

 

[Goose and Fig]

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He looks like he has the same issue I had with some Shaffer roos- the definition in the pea comb suddenly dissappears at about 5 months. Other than that- he looks like a sweetie. The lav boys are such great roos- not too rough on the girls or even slightly agressive

But- here's a way to test him that I discovered by accident: breed him to a single combed hen. If you get chicks with single combs then you know he isn't completely dominant for the pea comb and you might want to keep him out of a lav project. But if you get good pea combed chicks then you should use him with girls that have tiny, tight combs. Shouldn't be too hard to find some blacks or splits like that.

 

[kopeck]

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Interesting. Pretty much everything else I have here has a single comb (RIRs, and a few mutts). Maybe I'll give it a go and see what happens. I plan on hatching some eggs this spring anyway so I might as well fill out the incubator with a few from this fellow and see what happens.

Regrading temperament, he's always been very good and not at all aggressive with the exception of about a month ago. He started to act up a bit around my wife so we had a bit of a show down. Over a few mornings I would keep him away from his girls and the scratch they were eating, then when I saw fit I let him eat too. Never had to lay a hand (or a boot!) on him. This was also about the time that our Guinea Hen was a bit under the weather. So the combination of me showing him who was boss and the real boss (the Guinea Hen) getting back to her old ways put him back in place.

K

 

[Yvonne37894]

He looks like he has the slow tail feather gene that pops up with Shaffer line. I'm not an expert by any means but maybe Crystalcreek can take a look.


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