Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[chickenlady099]

Hard to tell from that pic.  We need body shots.  It is coloring that tells gender.  From what I see of the color it looks like a pullet but not firm without better pics.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Pullet it looks like..... I have not had wheatens grow out for a few months, but the ones I have now don't look like that..... they are still mostly white with just color on the wings not all over.

 

[americaca jtl]

Ok, I just got my Paul smith order of blues, my question is are the chicks with a white blood feather in the wings going to be the splash ones? I'm having them sexed and want to keep a blue and a splash female. How can I assure I pick the correct ones to keep for my flock?

No answers/help?

 

[DMRippy]

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No that will not tell you they are splash. Can you post pics?

 

[FVRM]

No answers/help?

splash are white mostly with black/grey spots. the blue ones are a smoky black color (blue)

 

[DMRippy]

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Do they hatch with spots? It is just a light gray almost white color. I don't hatch many splash, not a color I like to breed. the one in the middle is splash.



And the one on the left is splash

 

[FVRM]

they don't hatch with spots but they get the splashes when they start to get their true feathers

 

[Reyvaughn]

Pullet. A cockerel would not have this much 'brown' showing.

 

[chickenlady099]

Pullet. A cockerel would not have this much 'brown' showing.

great thanks then my first hatch is all pullets yay

im so happy

 

[jajeanpierre]

Ok, I just got my Paul smith order of blues, my question is are the chicks with a white blood feather in the wings going to be the splash ones? I'm having them sexed and want to keep a blue and a splash female. How can I assure I pick the correct ones to keep for my flock?

Did you order only blues? If so, you will not have any splash. I found that some of the the blues and blacks chicks I ordered sometimes have white feathers in the wings--I hope it molts out. Splash chicks are very obvious when next to a blue.

Here are pictures of two of Paul Smith's splash chicks next to two of his blues. The splash are on the left in the first picture and the bottom left in the second. You can see the blues have black or very dark beaks while the splash have light colored beaks. Hope that helps.