Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[heatherscooby77]

I'm going. Are you showing?

I think so. I gotta figure out this weekend who I can get conditioned. I have some ideas! They would be bbs hens.

 

[heatherscooby77]

is this a silver ameraucana?

I think you have an EE. His color is not what the SOP describes. Not to mention he does not have any muffs or beard. Comb look funky too.

Rooster

Hen

The pics are taken from the Ameraucana Breeders Website. They are not my pictures.

 

[TravisE]

Thanks for the info. But this is a pullet. The feathers look pointed but they are rounded. Its just the pattern on the feathers. She's around 6 or 7 months old. I just got her 3 days ago.

 

[jfishdr]

Success! I won a bid on pips&peeps LF chocolate ameraucana eggs. I set 16 and yesterday hatched 6 chocolate and 5 black. My hopes are for a black rooster and chocolate hens to move forward. If Jean is on here today, a question. 4 of the chocolates came out dark brown as expected but 2 are more blue like. Here are some pics

This chick in the middle

There are BBS LF and bantam Cochins in here too so ignore them. But the 2 lighter chicks came out of chocolate eggs

These 2 have best facial hair and the one on the right is one of the lighter "chocolates" in question

 

[HanwellChickens]

I picked up a young Ameraucana pullet today. She is gorgeous!! She is laying a lovely aqua colored egg. Here is her picture. No name yet, but am open to suggetions.

 

[bryanac]

I picked this chick up at a local hatchery, when I got it they said it was Ameraucana, but I think it's a Easter egger.. I am unsure how to tell the difference and if it is a boy or a girl.

 

[Hinotori]

I picked this chick up at a local hatchery, when I got it they said it was Ameraucana, but I think it's a Easter egger.. I am unsure how to tell the difference and if it is a boy or a girl.

Looks like typical hatchery EE. Hatcheries sell their EEs as Americana/Americauna/Ameraucana. It's a pullet. That's female coloring.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I picked this chick up at a local hatchery, when I got it they said it was Ameraucana, but I think it's a Easter egger.. I am unsure how to tell the difference and if it is a boy or a girl.

You thought right. She is in fact and easter egger and is a pullet. Hatcheries mislabel them all time. With easter eggers, pullets have a overall pattern, while cockerels usually have patty red in the shoulder areas. Hope that helped you!

 

[mstricer]

I have a black pullet but she is very young, I might enter my wheaten AM girls and a wheaten Marans. I know for sure I will be entering my d'Uccles.

 

[pips&peeps]

Success! I won a bid on pips&peeps LF chocolate ameraucana eggs. I set 16 and yesterday hatched 6 chocolate and 5 black. My hopes are for a black rooster and chocolate hens to move forward. If Jean is on here today, a question. 4 of the chocolates came out dark brown as expected but 2 are more blue like. Here are some pics


This chick in the middle

There are BBS LF and bantam Cochins in here too so ignore them. But the 2 lighter chicks came out of chocolate eggs

These 2 have best facial hair and the one on the right is one of the lighter "chocolates" in question

The hatching eggs sent included eggs from my blue and black pen. Did you separate the eggs when they hatched? The auction included the other eggs to help improve the birds in the next generation. For instance if you got a black male from the chocolate eggs, he would be split for chocolate and you could breed him to black hens to get chocolate chicks......

The cock bird in both pens is black, so there is not way to get blue offspring from the chocolate cross, but I do have a couple splash a couple blue hens in the BL/BL pen.