Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[FVRM]

Would you say Ameraucana or EE for my guy? He's beardless!

if he is not mixed with any other breed he is pure. has he always been like this? sometimes it's just genetics or other birds plucking it off.

 

[CindaLouWho]

This is one of the hens.

She has a beard and they are from the same hatchery/breeder.
I got him as an immature rooster, he's grown quite a bit but he has no beard. Just a muff. All the girls have beards and muffs.
I just don't want to keep calling them Ameraucana if they are in fact EE.

As far as I know, they are pure. But I've read so much on here about the hatcheries selling them as Ameraucana and in fact they are not.
Thanks!

 

[DMRippy]

This is one of the hens.

She has a beard and they are from the same hatchery/breeder.
I got him as an immature rooster, he's grown quite a bit but he has no beard. Just a muff. All the girls have beards and muffs.
I just don't want to keep calling them Ameraucana if they are in fact EE.

As far as I know, they are pure. But I've read so much on here about the hatcheries selling them as Ameraucana and in fact they are not.
Thanks!

Did you get him from a Hatchery or Breeder they are not the same? If he came from a hatchery he is an EE. If he came from someone private did you see the parents? bigger question what are you breeding him with?

 

[CindaLouWho]

I got them from a place in Norco called chickens galore. I don't know the difference between a hatchery and a breeder. Sorry.
There's 4 hens and a rooster. I keep trying to upload a pic of the girls but the site won't let me.

 

[FVRM]

I got them from a place in Norco called chickens galore. I don't know the difference between a hatchery and a breeder. Sorry.
There's 4 hens and a rooster. I keep trying to upload a pic of the girls but the site won't let me.

okay well chickens galore would not fall into the hatchery category because they are a small farm/ranch operation. They breed their own stock and don't buy from big hatcheries. I would say those are pure because if they were EEs we would be able to tell right away. Sometimes you can't get a perfect SOP bird every try that's why everyone has to cull some from every generation. if you breed him use girls with big beards.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Not true. I have sex linked EE and you can't tell them from my Blacks or from blues. They have all the right stuff to look like an Ameraucana. They ALL carry one copy of the yellow leg gene and that will not express with a first cross.

From what I read on a thread here about him he sell EE so I would err on the side of EE. I would not sell birds or chicks without knowing 100% they are TRUE Ameraucanas.....

 

[jajeanpierre]

Breeding splash to splash can wash the color out. they can eventually be almost white if they don't breed them back to black or blue.

What is the "correct" color for splash?

 

[heatherscooby77]

Would you say Ameraucana or EE for my guy? He's beardless!

He looks like he got plucked by the hens. There are quite a few reasons this can happen that are not genetically related. In fact I think I might know what the exact culprit is. I bet the person/farm/breeder you got them from fed fermented feed. I have seen this exact pattern of "male baldness" before. It happens when the other birds in the pen pick the fermented feed out of the beard. Especially if it had dried some. Ladies that "love" there man will groom them too. They don't usually pick them so that there neck is visable. That is just my guess. You could always email them and ask them..............

 

[DMRippy]

Quote:
There isn't one for Ameraucanas...... I would think that would be a personal preference thing. I like lots of dark spots myself. But I don't really breed any of my birds for splash. I just don't really like it........

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: I think they all like to pick it..... I don't feed fermented feed and most of my roos can't keep beards......no matter the breed they are with.