Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[FLF]

Jerry, please keep sharing all your experience and photos! I am still working on understanding everything, and you are giving us a fantastic reference. I wish everyone was so kind and willing to share thier hard earned knowledge with us newbies

 

[jerryse]

Wanted to ask acouple questions? I was reading on ABC about the discussion on what type of "silver" the ameraucana should be. I would ask over there but I am still waiting for my membership, anyway. Is that what is wanted to have the striping in the hackles and the saddle?
I was also wondering if there is anybody else still working on the blue silver variety? This is something I am really interested in working with and wanted to know where this project stands?

Yes the black striping is the difference between silver and silverduckwing.There was a post on the ABC forum about blue silver recently.Mike Gilbert sold all of his a couple of years ago but there are some still out there.I will have to read it again and see if it says who has them.

 

[chicken stalker]

So improving silvers can be done with either black or wheaten. What about if I used a blue and a silver Would that eventually give me a blue silver 2 generations later? I really like those blue silvers.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Would anybody happen to have a pic of a blue silver? Especially a pullet. Doesn't matter what breed, I just want to see the color.

 

[jerryse]

Would anybody happen to have a pic of a blue silver? Especially a pullet. Doesn't matter what breed, I just want to see the color.

Here is a blue silver bantam hen.

 

[Illia]

Sorry that's not a blue silver. Blue Silvers would have blue, not black tail and primaries

Yes, you can get Blue Silvers in just 2 easy generations using Blue/Splash birds while also improving them too.

 

[pips&peeps]

I think you posted a wheatenXsilver cross.

 

[Illia]

I think you posted a wheatenXsilver cross.

x2 That or a Silver carrying Columbian.

 

[jerryse]

So improving silvers can be done with either black or wheaten. What about if I used a blue and a silver Would that eventually give me a blue silver 2 generations later? I really like those blue silvers.

Blue x silver is exactly how Mike Gilbert started his.Improving silvers can also be done with a silver rooster over white hens.A white rooster over a silver hen is not so good as the hens will have a white breast.They can not inherit the salmon breast from a white rooster due the sex linked nature of of the salmon breast.Recessive white will have to be bred out by testing the F2 generation.This cross is not done because of this.

 

[jerryse]

Sorry that's not a blue silver. Blue Silvers would have blue, not black tail and primaries

Yes, you can get Blue Silvers in just 2 easy generations using Blue/Splash birds while also improving them too.

You are right I grabbed the wrong bird.