Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

Yes....I bought them from someone here on BYC. That picture is not great and I had the colors wrong. I just brought them home yesterday and it is cold and drizzly
out so they were not posing very well.

Here are pictures the seller sent me:


This one is the one on the right of the first picture.

She is a Blue Wheaten


This on is a buff/wheaten cross pullet

Such pretty birds!
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I've been wanting some for a while. Hopefully next Spring! My boys are lonely.
 
I have a question for you ameraucana experts. I have raised them for a few years now. I have 2 beautiful wheaten roosters. One is very regal and the other is as flighty as they come. He sees me and he immediately starts running around the pen and making noise. The others (19) just look at him like he is crazy. My question is should I allow him to breed the hens and risk getting flighty chicks from his genes??
 
Pretty birds
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That 1st bird might be a buff but she's not a blue wheatan.
That 2nd pic they look similar to my splash & blue wheatans.
She does look buff, but has blue on some of the flights and some of the her tail feathers. I am not going to be breeding them so show standards don't matter to me. I have them for egg color. I can only go by what there breeder told me since I have never had them before.




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Pretty bird......but aren't there variations in the appearance of birds of the same variety? I also have Black Copper Marans and some have much more copper on the head than others, some have more feathers on the leg/toe, some have more sheen than others.......but they are all still Black Copper Marans.

Not challenging anyone here but, if I bred a BC Marans to a Cuckoo Marans, they would still be Marans, just not one color or the other. Breeding 2 color varietys of the same breed does not generally change the breed. Just curious as to why would this be the case for Ameraucana's.
 
 
The top on is not a blue wheaten.
this is what  blue wheaten looks like
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(pics from the ABC)


O and when you cross two colors that doesnt give you another pure color, they technically are EEs.

Pretty bird......but aren't there variations in the appearance of birds of the same variety?   I also have Black Copper Marans and some have much more copper on the head than others, some have more feathers on the leg/toe, some have more sheen than others.......but they are all still Black Copper Marans.

Not challenging anyone here but, if I bred a BC Marans to a Cuckoo Marans, they would still be Marans, just not one color or the other.  Breeding 2 color varietys of the same breed does not generally change the breed.  Just curious as to why would this be the case for Ameraucana's.




It is a rule made by the parent club the ABC. If the Marans does not lay a dark enough egg you can't call it a Marans, that is their rule.
 
Pretty bird......but aren't there variations in the appearance of birds of the same variety? I also have Black Copper Marans and some have much more copper on the head than others, some have more feathers on the leg/toe, some have more sheen than others.......but they are all still Black Copper Marans.

Not challenging anyone here but, if I bred a BC Marans to a Cuckoo Marans, they would still be Marans, just not one color or the other. Breeding 2 color varietys of the same breed does not generally change the breed. Just curious as to why would this be the case for Ameraucana's.

Part of what defines a breed is that they breed true. If the genetics are mucked up they way you are doing it, they won't breed true. Color is part of the SOP.
 
It is a rule made by the parent club the ABC. If the Marans does not lay a dark enough egg you can't call it a Marans, that is their rule.

Part of what defines a breed is that they breed true. If the genetics are mucked up they way you are doing it, they won't breed true. Color is part of the SOP.
I am not actually "doing it" at all. As I said, I am not breeding them, so will never know if they breed true or not. I can't even have a rooster here. I just wanted them for egg color, so for my purposes, it doesn't really matter whether they are pure or not. I am not familiar enough with the colors to even know if they meet color standards or not, so will defer to you all on that.
 
I have a question for you ameraucana experts. I have raised them for a few years now. I have 2 beautiful wheaten roosters. One is very regal and the other is as flighty as they come. He sees me and he immediately starts running around the pen and making noise. The others (19) just look at him like he is crazy. My question is should I allow him to breed the hens and risk getting flighty chicks from his genes??
I am unsure on the flighty part, but I do know aggression is passed from the rooster to his children. I would use the regal rooster...

Quote: They are really pretty birds and I am glad they suit your purpose. May they live long and happily and give you many blue eggs.

On this thread we are discussing and educating people about the Ameraucana breed. Since you are not interested in breeding them or showing them please call them AM Easter Eggers on this forum. They are a color cross (and I suspect both of them are Buff x Wheaten, one looks Blue Smutty Buff (Blue tail) and the other looks Wheaten carrying Columbian from the Buff) and using the term AM Easter Egger will tell everybody on this forum that you know they are a cross. This will help the Ameraucana breed by getting more information out to the internet public. What you call them in the privacy of your home is up to you. I call my feed store Americanas "Easter Eggers" on this forum and Americanas to the rest of the public. If asked about them I will further explain they are a cross and not a breed - but my EEs do lay blue eggs.

The people who are passionate about this breed and frequent this thread do not want unknown mixed genetics introduced into the breed, and they are much happier if birds with mixed color genetics are not touted as "Purebred Ameraucanas" to the internet world. This way there is no chance those mixed birds will ever be introduced back into the Ameraucana breeding stock. I believe that is the reason for the Easter Egger name. Any culls are also called Easter Eggers - even if they are purebred - if they do not meet the correct genetics they need to be taken out of the breeding stock. The breed is too new in the making to use mixed genetics when you are still trying to get the basic genetics solidly in place, and there is a mixed breed out there that is constantly being confused with this Breed. Perhaps in 100 years that will change, but for right now please honor the requests of those who love this breed.

Thank you.
 
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I am unsure on the flighty part, but I do know aggression is passed from the rooster to his children. I would use the regal rooster...

They are really pretty birds and I am glad they suit your purpose. May they live long and happily and give you many blue eggs.

On this thread we are discussing and educating people about the Ameraucana breed. Since you are not interested in breeding them or showing them please call them AM Easter Eggers on this forum. They are a color cross (and I suspect both of them are Buff x Wheaten, one looks Blue Smutty Buff (Blue tail) and the other looks Wheaten carrying Columbian from the Buff) and using the term AM Easter Egger will tell everybody on this forum that you know they are a cross. This will help the Ameraucana breed by getting more information out to the internet public. What you call them in the privacy of your home is up to you. I call my feed store Americanas "Easter Eggers" on this forum and Americanas to the rest of the public. If asked about them I will further explain they are a cross and not a breed - but my EEs do lay blue eggs.

The people who are passionate about this breed and frequent this thread do not want unknown mixed genetics introduced into the breed, and they are much happier if birds with mixed color genetics are not touted as "Purebred Ameraucanas" to the internet world. This way there is no chance those mixed birds will ever be introduced back into the Ameraucana breeding stock. I believe that is the reason for the Easter Egger name. Any culls are also called Easter Eggers - even if they are purebred - if they do not meet the correct genetics they need to be taken out of the breeding stock. The breed is too new in the making to use mixed genetics when you are still trying to get the basic genetics solidly in place, and there is a mixed breed out there that is constantly being confused with this Breed. Perhaps in 100 years that will change, but for right now please honor the requests of those who love this breed.

Thank you.
I have no problem with that.
 

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