Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[vanalpaca]

Can you teach us how to tell which are roos? Am I seeing a spot on the head of them?Duh, now I see the hen, she is a blonde.......boys have darker color on them. Hadn't seen them feathering in, just the downy photos before....

There's an auction on for another 36 minutes claiming Pips and Peeps line of Lavenders and blue and black??

I did see in the photo the gold bleeding through on the wings.

And the club thread on lavender said should breed blacks with silver genes not gold genes to those particular lavenders to help correct the color bleed through?

I ask here because even though I joined the clubsite Monday, I'm not up as registered on the forum yet.

Haven't learned enough yet in a week of researching Ameraucanas to jump into lavender birds.....

 

[GA_in_GA]

There is one girl there- the rest are all wheaten and 1 BW roo.

I got those eggs from Debbie Whaley. They look just like my Ribbeck girl's eggs, but they are still on strike. Time to break out the cayenne pepper!

Oh, I missed her. Must have been the overwhelming maleness I saw.

I tried the cayenne pepper in January, and it really did not help. Or maybe my girls were just too stubborn. My Marans are both finally laying. And one silkie. The rest are free loading big time!

 

[Goose and Fig]

With the wheatens- the boys will start to get big black or blue feathers on the backs of thier necks and on thier backs. You can cathc them a bit earlier at about 3 weeks by pushing back the neck feathers- if they are dark at the root (NOT red, but black or blue) then you can bet they are boys. Sometimes you'll get a tricky splash wheaten boy that won't show that.

I am no longer selling just lavenders- I feel bad that I did sell a few sets of eggs like that last year, but I didn't have any black laying at the time.Now I think it is irresponsible breeding. You will see almost all of the people working with them on this thread are all using blacks and splits. That will not get rid of leakage, but it should help eliminate fretting. Eventually.
I would not breed a bird with leakage- I would sell them as EEs or put them in the OE (olive egger) pen.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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I am BURIED in eggs- but they are all lavenders and the birds that are all running together. Finally getting good fertility in the few wheaten eggs I am getting though- happy about that! I;m going to start saving some for ya tomorrow

 

[GA_in_GA]

With the wheatens- the boys will start to get big black or blue feathers on the backs of thier necks and on thier backs. You can cathc them a bit earlier at about 3 weeks by pushing back the neck feathers- if they are dark at the root (NOT red, but black or blue) then you can bet they are boys. Sometimes you'll get a tricky splash wheaten boy that won't show that.

I am no longer selling just lavenders- I feel bad that I did sell a few sets of eggs like that last year, but I didn't have any black laying at the time.Now I think it is irresponsible breeding. You will see almost all of the people working with them on this thread are all using blacks and splits. That will not get rid of leakage, but it should help eliminate fretting. Eventually.
I would not breed a bird with leakage- I would sell them as EEs or put them in the OE (olive egger) pen.

Okay, my dumb question for the night . . .

If you have a black roo from a BBS pen, how do you know if there is silver or gold in the heritage? Have a big boy with a nice pea comb that I am contemplating using. Would appreciate guidance.

 

[vanalpaca]

Okay, my dumb question for the night . . .

If you have a black roo from a BBS pen, how do you know if there is silver or gold in the heritage? Have a big boy with a nice pea comb that I am contemplating using. Would appreciate guidance.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I am not a big fan of that theory at this time. IMO, if you have a quality black roo, you should use him.

 

[DMRippy]

Just my luck! So much for adding new blood!

Going to try again...

That is the way my luck ran with roos in the fall... well maybe not that bad.... Sorry... Pretty eggs.... I will be setting some Wheatens soon. Going to be using the new Blue Wheaten roo.... I think he is from cpartist flock, over my wheaten pullets (1 blue and 2 black)

 

[DMRippy]

I have got to get some good pictures of that black roo I am using in the lavs. He is a hunk .... he is my favorite roo as far as looks.... I am going to be doing some pen changing soon. I will see if I can get him in some good light. Maybe tomorrow... it is going to rain more.... You got an ark over there Amy?

 

[GA_in_GA]

Thanks Amy! Looking forward to them.