Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[CindaLouWho]

Aaaahhhh those babies are soooo beautiful! I love the mottled ones.

 

[JackieandChicks]

Hello All

Here is my "boy", at least I am hoping this is a boy. What do you think? I believe 6 weeks or so old. Thanks!

 

[Caitlin_VT]

Adorable!

Aaaahhhh those babies are soooo beautiful! I love the mottled ones.

Thanks guys! They are growing up really quickly

like usual!. I have another set of three mottled's that I hatched from a different breeder, and about 8 going into lockdown this week!

 

[speckledhen]

CindyLou, your rooster has the oddest comb. It looks more like an oversized strawberry comb than a pea comb. I've never seen a comb like that on an Ameraucana.

 

[jajeanpierre]

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........

Unlike you, I love the splash color--it reminds me of the blue merle Collies and Shelties I showed many decades ago.

I am involved in two breeds, Ameraucanas and bantam Cochins, both in the bbs colors. Cochins are about to have Splash recognized as a variety at the end of this year. I have yet to have anyone tell me what is the "correct" color for splash. The SOP talks of splash being white, but that doesn't seem to be the color produced.

 

[speckledhen]

Unlike you, I love the splash color--it reminds me of the blue merle Collies and Shelties I showed many decades ago.

I am involved in two breeds, Ameraucanas and bantam Cochins, both in the bbs colors. Cochins are about to have Splash recognized as a variety at the end of this year. I have yet to have anyone tell me what is the "correct" color for splash. The SOP talks of splash being white, but that doesn't seem to be the color produced.

My splashes seem to be a pearly white, not a glaring white like a Leghorn or even a Delaware. It's sort of a "grayed-down" white, more subtle in tone. That holds for my Splash Orpingtons, Splash Ameraucanas and Splash Plymouth Rocks. There are many shades of visual white-just check out a paint store, for lack of a better reference.

I also like the splash color, but I don't care for splashes with lots of black on them. I like the subtle gray "accent" feathers like I tend to have on mine here. Seems males tend to be darker in those feathers than the hens, but not always.

 

[jajeanpierre]

My splashes seem to be a pearly white, not a glaring white like a Leghorn or even a Delaware. It's sort of a "grayed-down" white, more subtle in tone. That holds for my Splash Orpingtons, Splash Ameraucanas and Splash Plymouth Rocks. There are many shades of visual white-just check out a paint store, for lack of a better reference.

I also like the splash color, but I don't care for splashes with lots of black on them. I like the subtle gray "accent" feathers like I tend to have on mine here. Seems males tend to be darker in those feathers than the hens, but not always.

Is this what you are looking for in a splash color? The Ameraucanas are a bit bleached from the sun.

 

[Thespoiledchicken]

I LOVE a nicely splashed bird

They are one of my favorite colors!


For me an evenly splashed bird and a good contrast is what I look for.

This is one of my Splash Marans that is pretty close to my ideal


And one of my Project Silkied Feather Splash Ameraucana's

 

[speckledhen]

Is this what you are looking for in a splash color? The Ameraucanas are a bit bleached from the sun.

Those splashes are much darker then the ones I've had in my lines of all three breeds. Even the splash Orpington males were not that dark. Keeping in mind that there is not a standard for how light or dark the "accent" feathers should be, that it's really more of a personal preference thing, here are splashes I've had in my breeds here:




A different Orp male from same lines:

Another male showing dark legs as opposed to the white legs-this one was from shipped eggs from a Sandhill Preservation line:


Ameraucana:
Younger pic, then older, as her feathers developed.




Plymouth Rock-the one in front, of course:

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Is this what you are looking for in a splash color? The Ameraucanas are a bit bleached from the sun.

I love your splash AM pullet/hen . I am hoping mine turn out like her