Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[dak]

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Awesome! Go lavs!

A second Split girl joined the first laying today. Also great color. Not bad for girls hatched in June with no lights, but I think I'm making them nervous trying to catch them laying.

 

[Phage]

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Awesome! Go lavs!

A second Split girl joined the first laying today. Also great color. Not bad for girls hatched in June with no lights, but I think I'm making them nervous trying to catch them laying.

WOO WHOOO

Congratulations!! That is great. All that hard work is paying off

 

[Christie Rhae]

I just read every single word written on the website www.greenfirefarms.com and I must say I am reeling. I thought marans and ameraucanas were exotic... the birds they have make marans and ameraucanas look like cornflakes. Not saying I am changing my chicken plans but WOW!!! The birds they have are incredible!!! I had no idea. Those ancient breeds really fascinate me. In fact everything about greenfire farms is fascinating. Makes me want red wattle pigs! (joke)
I have been reading about people trying for chocolate ameraucanas. I assume that choc orpingtons are being used to bring that mutation color into ameraucanas? I read this......

Chocolate Orpingtons have achieved cult status among poultry hobbyists. The “chocolate” gene, so called because it imparts a rich brown hue to the color of chicken feathers, is the Holy Grail of color traits among the dedicated chicken enthusiasts. The gene was originally described in 1994 by the late British geneticist, Dr. Clive Carefoot, when he observed the unusual color mutation in a single Orpington hen. He discovered that the chocolate gene is sex-linked: hens with the gene always display chocolate color while roosters with the recessive gene hide the chocolate color. When the chocolate gene manifests, not only does it add a chocolate color to the feathers but also the skin and beak of a chocolate bird. Dr. Carefoot chose not to widely distribute the gene, instead working until his death to breed the gene into several types of chickens including bantam chocolate Orpingtons.

Is the chocolate gene with ameraucanas also sex linked?
I have been reading a lot about chicken color genetics. I found a book I want santa to bring me. "Genetics of chicken colors". Only 130.00! lol There is a lot of stuff online too. My brain just can't rest till I understand. It is a gift and a curse.​

 

[Christie Rhae]

P.S.
Tomorrow we are putting up form boards for concrete to start our coops similar to these Greenfire Farms coops.
http://greenfirefarms.com/2009/02/building-a-chicken-coop/
I love everything about this row of coops. My husband is a plumbing contractor and I am so excited to have water run to each coop with auto waterers. Enough of this filling each waterer with a hose... scrubbing out algae...hoping they don't run out of water in hot days when I am away.
We have such mild weather I am never building those closed in hen houses again.
Can't wait! Bummed my husband only has sundays to work on it!

 

[SD_Paulo]

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Is the chocolate gene with ameraucanas also sex linked?
I have been reading a lot about chicken color genetics. I found a book I want santa to bring me. "Genetics of chicken colors". Only 130.00! lol There is a lot of stuff online too. My brain just can't rest till I understand. It is a gift and a curse.

Greenfire does have some nice stuff. A tad bit over priced, over rated and over marketed especially for birds that are "backyard chickens" in their native countries. Unlike the Chocolate Orps, you mentioned, that were carefully and diligently selected. But I will say that I am a fan of the Jubilee Orps they have plans on getting some of those guys. Ok, enough of the GF "hatorade" from me.

You want EXOTIC check this exotic looking chickens...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/69260_nacked_one_005.jpg

 

[Christie Rhae]

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Is the chocolate gene with ameraucanas also sex linked?
I have been reading a lot about chicken color genetics. I found a book I want santa to bring me. "Genetics of chicken colors". Only 130.00! lol There is a lot of stuff online too. My brain just can't rest till I understand. It is a gift and a curse.

Greenfire does have some nice stuff. A tad bit over priced, over rated and over marketed especially for birds that are "backyard chickens" in their native countries. Unlike the Chocolate Orps, you mentioned, that were carefully and diligently selected. But I will say that I am a fan of the Jubilee Orps they have plans on getting some of those guys. Ok, enough of the GF "hatorade" from me.

You want EXOTIC check this exotic looking chickens...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/69260_nacked_one_005.jpg

Hey don't be "J".

You know they are awesome. Expensive yes...

 

[Goose and Fig]

Not a fan.

 

[DMRippy]

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x2... but they have a great website and if I could charge the price they do I would in a heartbeat! I liked the breeding pens too... mine where kinda built with those in mind, but on a budget. I don't have running water

but I do have a rain collection system partially up and running.

here is a link if anyone wants to look https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=594825&p=1

So far it is working great! I just need to finish the feeders, having to do that every day is a pain.

 

[enggass]

X3
I still can't figure out how they justify some(or all) of their pricing???? I've inferred from what I have read - they are a high end hatchery... They do however offer some unique breeds, I'll give them that.

 

[jeremy]

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Right.