Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[2seth2]

I was wondering what are you striving for in your andalusion X amercuana project ?

What color do you want on the neck of a wheaton hen?

 

[mama2my4]

Had to share my babies. They are about 3 mo old now and I just kicked them out of the house today.

How do you tell the boys from the girls?

 

[jerryse]

Had to share my babies. They are about 3 mo old now and I just kicked them out of the house today.

How do you tell the boys from the girls?

Looks like 3 girls.Should be pink combs by now plus some saddle feathers getting pointed and rooster tail.

 

[mama2my4]

Looks like 3 girls.Should be pink combs by now plus some saddle feathers getting pointed and rooster tail.

Yah!!!

 

[DMRippy]

I was wondering what are you striving for in your andalusion X amercuana project ?

What color do you want on the neck of a wheaton hen?

To answer the first part since she may not be back on for awhile.... she is trying to add the Lacing into blue Ameraucanas as they should have.

Not 100% but I think WheatEn hens hackles should be the same color as the rest of the hen cream color.... no black or blue.

 

[heatherscooby77]

I was wondering what are you striving for in your andalusion X amercuana project ?

What color do you want on the neck of a wheaton hen?

What I am working on has nothing to do with Wheatens. I am using the Andalusian to make real lacing on my blues, instead of edging. In fact, I have come up with an interesting combination. It will take longer, but it has worked out well so far.

You breed together, the SLW rooster, to the Blue Andalusian hen. I have gotten mostly black hens with what appears to be a strawberry comb. They have a couple of white spots on there wings, and seem to have a birchen pattern. Then taking those hens, and breeding them to a Splash rooster. I have gotten some awesome results. I will be getting pics soon. She just started to lay.

The positives I am finding with this: White skin, pea comb, beard and muffs present (single beard gene), egg color not thrown off to bad by the brown egg genes. Another great thing is the hen I am mostly speaking about, doesn't have the sleek mediterranean body, nor the Wyandotte body. Type doesn't seem to have suffered. She also is tightly feathered. I have decided for now not to keep any cockerels from these matings. If I get enough of the cross using the splash rooster, then I might consider crossing them. I think I will get a lot of clean faced birds, so I am not necessarily ready to do that yet.

As always please comment away! I could always use some advice!

 

[beckyb1971]

My daughter named him Santa

 

[buddy phoenix]

has spoilt chickens lol beckyb is guilty lol

 

[pips&peeps]

What I am working on has nothing to do with Wheatens. I am using the Andalusian to make real lacing on my blues, instead of edging. In fact, I have come up with an interesting combination. It will take longer, but it has worked out well so far.

You breed together, the SLW rooster, to the Blue Andalusian hen. I have gotten mostly black hens with what appears to be a strawberry comb. They have a couple of white spots on there wings, and seem to have a birchen pattern. Then taking those hens, and breeding them to a Splash rooster. I have gotten some awesome results. I will be getting pics soon. She just started to lay.

The positives I am finding with this: White skin, pea comb, beard and muffs present (single beard gene), egg color not thrown off to bad by the brown egg genes. Another great thing is the hen I am mostly speaking about, doesn't have the sleek mediterranean body, nor the Wyandotte body. Type doesn't seem to have suffered. She also is tightly feathered. I have decided for now not to keep any cockerels from these matings. If I get enough of the cross using the splash rooster, then I might consider crossing them. I think I will get a lot of clean faced birds, so I am not necessarily ready to do that yet.

As always please comment away! I could always use some advice!

Your hen could still be carrying the yellow skin gene. So don't forget that in subsequent generations. Once you get far enough along, you might want to test breed your project birds to a yellow skinned bird to make sure you got it removed.

 

[heatherscooby77]

Your hen could still be carrying the yellow skin gene. So don't forget that in subsequent generations. Once you get far enough along, you might want to test breed your project birds to a yellow skinned bird to make sure you got it removed.

Yes Jean, an excellent idea. This is also why I am not keeping cockerels right now. So they don't get two copies of the gene. I will probably be doing this project forever!