Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Goose and Fig]

Glad its the wrong pic because its nothing like I expected

Nevermind- the rest of my post made no sense.

 

[jerryse]

Here is a pic of a pullet from the blue wheaten x silver cross.What I call intermediate as she looks light brown with some wheaten chacteristics.Halfway between the two patterns.

Since Jean posted pics of her silvers I will talk about my silver impovement project.Let me start by explaining the close relationship between wheaten and BB red.The males are the same color only the females differ.Silver duckwing is the silver counterpart.Light brown and silver are similar with the males having a black stripe in the hackle and saddle feathers.So we are dealing with the basic wild pattern with slight variations.The silvers that I have need better size and type.So last year I crossed blue wheaten over silver hens the resulting pullets are are now laying so I just added a silver rooster to the pen.These pullets are pure for red/gold due to the sex linked nature of red/gold and silver.They are also intermediate between wheaten and light brown.Pictures another day as it is rainy today.So by doing the silver over these pullets the resulting pullets this year will be pure for silver.I know many of you are thinking this can't be true but it is.Many of you with experience already know this.The genes will segregate per Mendal's law.So 25% will be pure for the striped chick pattern.These are the ones I will keep.The cockerels will carry genes for silver and gold.By selecting striped chicks I will eliminate the wheaten gene.Jean used black for improvement and has made great progress.This is just another route to the same goal.Some of my pullets carry blue wheaten.So as a bonus there will be some blue silver result.I will keep you posted as this project progresses.The first chicks to hatch from this in about 6 weeks.Just a little bit early but the cull chicks will go to the sale barn as easter eggers.

 

[chickee]

I do have a picture of a silver laced blue Wyandotte rooster if you would like to see it. He was a cross between a blue Wyandotte rooster and a silver laced Wyandotte hen. Odd but his sister turned out to be a blue laced gold from this combination

 

[FLF]

Here is a not very good picture of my new blue silver pullet. Above









Not very good picture of my blue silver cockerel (ignore the red leak please!)

 

[Illia]

Good, bad, whatever photos they still show the real thing

And don't worry about the snow. We've got a seriously unusual amount dumping on us right now, and it's fun to get photos of the dogs playing in it but they always turn out quite blue and dark as yours. It's because of the serious contrast of white snow vs dark bird.

 

[GA_in_GA]

I wondered how much snow you were getting, Illia.

 

[Illia]

Got 11 inches total on the ground right now. Today calls mainly for high winds, but later in the day for a few more.

I've only been in WA for 11 years but this so far is the most. Normally a winter here is about 1 inch average, 6 inches max that often dump in one day. We're getting continuous dumps for 3 days now.

 

[GA_in_GA]

Hope the winds do not get too bad for you. And that the chickens are tucked in safely. Stay warm!

 

[Goose and Fig]

Here is a not very good picture of my new blue silver pullet. Above









Not very good picture of my blue silver cockerel (ignore the red leak please!)

The girl looks like what I've got! I wonder if the blue glow of the snow is playing tricks on me though....
Do you have pics of her as a chick?

 

[Goose and Fig]

FLF- did your girl look anything like this: