Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[TheGeekySheep]

I definitely have a couple pullets with three rows of ridges or "peas" (Ameraucanas have pea combs), but they're not that red yet and they're 4 months old (16 weeks). They're just now starting to turn pinkish.

 

[Angel16]

I definitely have a couple pullets with three rows of ridges or "peas" (Ameraucanas have pea combs), but they're not that red yet and they're 4 months old (16 weeks). They're just now starting to turn pinkish.

OH! So it might still be a she?

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Okay, Here are the pictures

What do you think he/she is?

Looks like a pullet to me

 

[jfishdr]

This is a question for Jean the next time she is on board,

The chicks are doing well but I did notice something interesting and was wondering if you had seen this before in other chicks.

2 of the "black chicks" have a small patch of chocolate down just behind the eye. The most noticeable is on a chick whose back ground is mostly black but has some yellow under the chin and neck and black around the eye and then a patch of chocolate about the size of a #2 pencil eraser.

Have you seen this in other chocolates you've hatched that were mostly black? Is this an indicator of a split rooster with partial bleed through of chocolate? Even with sex linked recessive, is it possible to have partial dominance or incomplete penetrance of the black gene over chocolate?

I am at work now but will try to upload a photo of this chick's face tonight.

Thanks,

Reed

 

[TheGeekySheep]

Well my streak of beginner's luck ended tonight. I came home and found my little blue runt Roslyn had died. She had always been about half the size of her sisters but she'd been moving slow the past couple weeks. She didn't show any other signs of disease. No mites, no bloody or wormy poops. Could a bird just die from being small?

The others are all plump and healthy looking so I've got my fingers crossed that this isn't a disease. Bye chickie.

 

[HanwellChickens]

Well my streak of beginner's luck ended tonight. I came home and found my little blue runt Roslyn had died. She had always been about half the size of her sisters but she'd been moving slow the past couple weeks. She didn't show any other signs of disease. No mites, no bloody or wormy poops. Could a bird just die from being small?

The others are all plump and healthy looking so I've got my fingers crossed that this isn't a disease. Bye chickie.

I have no advise. So sorry about your hen. She was beautiful.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I have no advise.  So sorry about your hen.  She was beautiful.

oh i missed your post! i am also sorry she was very pretty

 

[TheGeekySheep]

Yeah she was such a cutie. That was her just 8 days ago, so it was pretty sudden. Thanks everyone.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Well my streak of beginner's luck ended tonight. I came home and found my little blue runt Roslyn had died. She had always been about half the size of her sisters but she'd been moving slow the past couple weeks. She didn't show any other signs of disease. No mites, no bloody or wormy poops. Could a bird just die from being small?

The others are all plump and healthy looking so I've got my fingers crossed that this isn't a disease. Bye chickie.

RIP Roslyn

Yes, I have found sometimes chickens just die and there is no sign of why. I suspect it has something to do with the heart, or internal problems. I had one Mottled Houdan boy who was running around one day, sluggish the next and then keeled over. No other bird showed anything. There is something called a failure to thrive that usually shows up in young chicks, but sometimes the older ones just "fail" too. Signs of internal trouble is usually a pale comb and sluggish. Sorry about your girl.

 

[Angel16]

Looks like a pullet to me

awesome!!

Well my streak of beginner's luck ended tonight. I came home and found my little blue runt Roslyn had died. She had always been about half the size of her sisters but she'd been moving slow the past couple weeks. She didn't show any other signs of disease. No mites, no bloody or wormy poops. Could a bird just die from being small?

The others are all plump and healthy looking so I've got my fingers crossed that this isn't a disease. Bye chickie.

aww! I'm so sorry

! She was so pretty! RIP Roslyn