Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Question: I have a Black Ameraucana Hen, I bought her last year from someone on here.
She lays a green egg color. But my question is, would she pass that gene onto her offspring if she was bred to a Lavender that came from a light blue egg?
(Before anyone asks, she is pure breed.)
I have a picture of her from when I first got her last, I don't have any recent photos because she hasn't been looking to good from molting and just coming off her broody streak of 2 months.

E-mail that was sent to my friend then forwarded to me.

"Subject: Re: Wanted: Ameraucana pullets or hens
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:05:16 -0500

I have a black 2010 pullet that won champion large fowl at our ABC National in Kentucky last fall.
Turns out she lays a green egg, which is the only reason I'm selling her.
Mike Gilbert.
http://redstagacres.webs.com/"





(She blinked right when the camera captured the picture..)



Suggestions and Comments are all Welcome! I have a tough skin so lay it on me!

If you hatch several chicks, you should end up with approximately 50% that lay blue eggs and 50% that lay green (theoretically)...exact numbers will vary.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Here you go Donna, not the greatest picture, but you can see foot color. The chick on the left has some lighter toes, and so does the one on the far right. I have had chicks hatch from parents who free range and have a high pigment diet that do have some yellowish pads on the bottom of the feet at hatch, and this pigment goes away after a couple of weeks. I usually don't see it on the shanks. Not saying mine are right and yours is wrong, just saying take a look at them in a couple of weeks and if they are yellow, don't use them for your purebred lavender pen.

I had my golden lakenvelder shanks look just like this, mostly slate but yellow patches just like this. hers went away and now has all same color legs. i know crystalcreek just said this about the feet but i had the shanks be this way aswell and disappear i just wondered if yours did also.

 

[Lrkel]

I want one!

 

[Chicken Tamer]

The white chicks look like snow balls there soooooo adorable!!!

 

[pips&peeps]

those are lavenders

 

[tiki244]

What color is the bottom of the feet supposed to be?


eta The hen is beautiful StevenW

 

[nicalandia]

If you hatch several chicks, you should end up with approximately 50% that lay blue eggs and 50% that lay green (theoretically)...exact numbers will vary.

thats not quite right... you see the brown egg shell trait is a polygenic trait with some of those genes also sex link genes, getting rid of this trait is WAY more difficult that what it appears to be...

 

[nicalandia]

What color is the bottom of the feet supposed to be?


eta The hen is beautiful StevenW

white

 

[StevenW.]

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I'm lost.. Unless you're saying that the hens green egg laying gene would be dominant in a cross? She was hatched from parents that both came from blue eggs and she came from a blue egg..
Where and how did she get the green egg gene at?

 

[Christie Rhae]

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I'm lost.. Unless you're saying that the hens green egg laying gene would be dominant in a cross? She was hatched from parents that both came from blue eggs and she came from a blue egg..
Where and how did she get the green egg gene at?
It isn't a green egg gene. It is a brown egg gene combined with the blue. It is a sneaky, complicated brown egg gene.