Here is my 10 week old blue Ameraucana (I hope!). I had ordered splash eggs, but hatched out 3 black and 2 blue. Kept this one. Does it look pure am to you guys? And a pullet?
Thanks! These eggs came from an all splash pen. Not sure how I ended up with Blue and Black! The woman I ordered them from is stumped too.
Those are mixes but they're VERY pretty!Hello, I have some wonderful birds that we purchased as 1 day old chicks. We are super GREEN at this. We were told that they are purebred Ameraucanas. After seeing your pictures I wonder if this is true. I've been doing research online and am more confused than ever. Can you help educate me? Thought since you were all Ameracauna experts that this would be the place to go! Once of the picture included is when the chicks were brand new. The others are of two different hens. They are 8 months old and consistently lay large blue eggs every day. We don't have a rooster for them. Didn't want to get a rooster if these aren't really Ameraucanas. I see that Ameracuanas come in several lovely colors. Do the colors have to be kept separate during breeding to perpetuate that color? Are my birds mutts because they aren't one color? I just want to know. Thank you
Hello,
I have some wonderful birds that we purchased as 1 day old chicks. We are super GREEN at this. We were told that they are purebred Ameraucanas. After seeing your pictures I wonder if this is true. I've been doing research online and am more confused than ever. Can you help educate me? Thought since you were all Ameracauna experts that this would be the place to go! Once of the picture included is when the chicks were brand new. The others are of two different hens. They are 8 months old and consistently lay large blue eggs every day. We don't have a rooster for them. Didn't want to get a rooster if these aren't really Ameraucanas.
I see that Ameracuanas come in several lovely colors. Do the colors have to be kept separate during breeding to perpetuate that color? Are my birds mutts because they aren't one color? I just want to know.
Thank you
you have some easter eggers, if you look at my avatar they look very similar to an EE hen I used to have. Ameraucana come in 8 accepted colors. You can go the ameraucana breeders website at www.ameraucana.org to see pics of the varities and learn a little more about the breed. Now as far as breeding goes it all depends on what your goals are as NYREDS said. If you just want some more chickens that lay colored egg you could get an EE or maerucan rooster and breed them to your current hens and get more colored egg layers. If you want true ameraucanas you need to get all new birds. As far as breeding the variites. You can breed black, blue, and splash together to get more of the same 3 colors. Splash are a color project and not an accepted variety but are used to get more blue and black. I think you can also breed wheaten, blue wheaten, and splash wheaten together to get more of the same 3 colors. Once again splash wheaten are acolor project color and not an accepted variety. I'm not sure how breeding goes with buff, silver, or white. Someone else would half to help you out with that.Hello,
I have some wonderful birds that we purchased as 1 day old chicks. We are super GREEN at this. We were told that they are purebred Ameraucanas. After seeing your pictures I wonder if this is true. I've been doing research online and am more confused than ever. Can you help educate me? Thought since you were all Ameracauna experts that this would be the place to go! Once of the picture included is when the chicks were brand new. The others are of two different hens. They are 8 months old and consistently lay large blue eggs every day. We don't have a rooster for them. Didn't want to get a rooster if these aren't really Ameraucanas.
I see that Ameracuanas come in several lovely colors. Do the colors have to be kept separate during breeding to perpetuate that color? Are my birds mutts because they aren't one color? I just want to know.
Thank you
Ok. I just wanted to show this guy because I can't believe how close his coloring is coming in to wheaten. His father is a wheaten, and he looks a lot like his father did at this age (12 weeks), other than that long tail. I'm not selling or giving this bird away. I don't want anyone thinking that he's a pure bred. Does the cross of wheaten over hatchery EEs usually produce males that look like wheaten?
The two pullets behind him are his half sisters.
