Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Goose and Fig]

Look for small, tight, 3 distinguishable rows in the lav roos' combs. I had a few way back when that looked good and at about 4-5 months the combs lost all definition.

ETA- just found out that the Contrastphoto on the New Years Hatch has one lav cuckoo out so far

 

[DMRippy]

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If you didn't see anything out of place from the pics I will assume the size is fine on the roos. I think they all have 3 rows but I will double check. The small guy has a smaller comb, but wonder if that is because of his over all size. Like the combs are proportional to over all size.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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If you didn't see anything out of place from the pics I will assume the size is fine on the roos. I think they all have 3 rows but I will double check. The small guy has a smaller comb, but wonder if that is because of his over all size. Like the combs are proportional to over all size.

No- I don't see any glaring faults except maybe the one guys tail looks like (if he wasn't balancing at the time) it could be wry. He looks like he's walking the tightrope though so I don't think that's the case.

I am really happy to see more people raising lavenders with blacks and splits and asking questions. Its nice to know not everybody is in it to make a quick buck. There is hope, afterall! Keep up the good work people!

 

[DMRippy]

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If you didn't see anything out of place from the pics I will assume the size is fine on the roos. I think they all have 3 rows but I will double check. The small guy has a smaller comb, but wonder if that is because of his over all size. Like the combs are proportional to over all size.

No- I don't see any glaring faults except maybe the one guys tail looks like (if he wasn't balancing at the time) it could be wry. He looks like he's walking the tightrope though so I don't think that's the case.

I am really happy to see more people raising lavenders with blacks and splits and asking questions. Its nice to know not everybody is in it to make a quick buck. There is hope, afterall! Keep up the good work people!

he fell of that tight rope right after I took the pic and was instantly attacked by the med size boy and ran back in the coop. Funny that great big guy coward to that smaller one. I feel for the underdog so he may be my buddy.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I'm partial to the gentle giants myself.

 

[BirdCrazyLady]

Hi all! Quick question. I have 11 lav and split pullets that are 8 wks old. I want to cull down to a trio for breeding and maybe 4 layers .what can I cull for now to give my keepers more space? Are their traits that can be seen now? I noticed that some of them have light eyes and one or two bluish eyes. The rest are the correct bay. How early us to early to cull for eye color? Thanks so much!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Too early at that age- unless you have any with the really slow feathering. I would band those and unless they have really geat type later on don't use them.

 

[SD_Paulo]

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Mr. Shaffer,

I really appreciate the advise you offered to DMRIPPY and what you said intrigued me. As a relative newbie to breeding to "standards" rather than just for fun, and one who is also looking forward to working on the Lavender Ams this spring. I would like to know if the items suggested to look for were in the order of importance? In other words, 1st Combs, 2nd Feathering and so on.... Or was it specific to DMRIPPY's birds?

Also, I do not mean to put you on the spot but I would be interested reading what you feel, in general, are the important items to work on regarding the Lavs?


Your time is appreciated in advance.

If you are breeding to the APA SOP the body is the most important part.

Walt

Thank you Walt....

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

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I think this is a decent example of a nice, tight comb in a lavender juvenile male. His eye color is too light, but he was not old enough in this picture to judge that yet. I just know from my lines that his eye color will be too light by looking right now. There is not a smooth transition at the back going to the tail feathers, giving him a "cotton ball" appearance in front of the tail, which is undesireable. A huge problem in lavs is sloppy tails with skinny, twisted tailfeathers. This specimen has wide flat tailfeathers, which is a plus. Look also and you'll see he does not have a lot of tiny horizontal dark gray to black stripes on his feathers known as "ticking" or "fretting". You want to use birds with the least amount of that. His wing set could be higher, too.

Here is a bad tail. This is hard as heck to breed out. All that dark gray in the middle of his wing feather is fretting, also hard to breed out. From a distance it makes the bird look dirty. What do your females look like? Female quality is important.

 

[SD_Paulo]

Happy Pre-New Years Day….

Well, I have this little W/BW growing fast and I am mean fast. They are about 8-10 day old and I was curious to learn if they could be sexed at this stage in the game. If so, what am I looking for?

I added some photos because its fun to look at pictures

Different Wing colored feather pics:

Light Colored:

Med Colored:

Darkest: