Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[jajeanpierre]

I need this help because i don't know the difference between a hatchery hen and a breeders hen...

I really don't understand what you are asking for. Explain your comments on hatchery hen/breeders hen.

Did you get these Ameraucanas from a feed store or a hatchery?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Even when there are juvenile there is no way to know witch ones to cull or keep?   

Do you have a copy of the SOP or ever read the standard for the breed? I would look at things like body type, skin color, tail angle, comb structure, egg color, eye color, and so on

 

[emmyeagle]

Just would like to confirm. Is she an ameraucauna?

 

[DMRippy]

I'm confused, DMRippy, which "she" are you talking about? PathWandering's bird black bird posted below?

You refer to the pointed feathers on a Lavender cockerel, do you mean the mature Lavender posted by TheSpoiledChicken? The feathers of a mature cockerel/rooster cannot be compared to the juvenile feathers of a cockerel.

I see the beginnings of pointed feathers on the 11 week old juvenile posted below. The tail looks like it is starting to get long like a cockerel, with that little droop. It doesn't look like the neat wedge a pullet has. It thought the comb was a bit too colored and developed for a pullet. What am I missing?


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100% pullet.... no saddles, or hackles of a cockerel on that pullet. Look at those dainty legs too....

Young Cockerels.... ALL of them.







young lavender with black splits..... OBVIOUS feather difference.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Do you have a copy of the SOP or ever read the standard for the breed? I would look at things like body type, skin color, tail angle, comb structure, egg color, eye color, and so on

I also forgot to say, some of these things will pop up along the way that will make your choice easier. Some won't. The ugly cockerel at 10 weeks may look beautiful at 7 months old. Things like type and color, laming with others, you will have to wait to be able to tell on

 

[dannyisforreal]

Do you have a copy of the SOP or ever read the standard for the breed? I would look at things like body type, skin color, tail angle, comb structure, egg color, eye color, and so on

Im really bad with words sorry to anyone with the confusion. But i just wanted the SOP my computer isn't showing it up, but found a different website. THANKS

 

[pips&peeps]

Just would like to confirm. Is she an ameraucauna?

No, it's an easter egger - has yellow skin.

 

[maryhysong]

I have three Ameraucana cockerels to pick from. I am trying to thin out the grow out pens as they are getting a bit crowded. These were hatched 2/17 so about 17 weeks. Two blacks and a blue.

First the blue; that is not positive white in the fluff, more a light grey, he is a shade or two darker in real life than this pic; late afternoon sun shining in on him. He seems reasonably wide through the back, his lacing isn't the best tho there is some.



The two black Ks; excuse the BCM photobombing there. I know these aren't the best pics but these birds are flightly and only seem to hold still when they are eating! Of these two I prefer the one on the left, he is wider all the way back and in the right light has a good green sheen. He also hatched from a pretty blue egg and has the best looking comb. The one on the right seems to be a bit pinched in the tail, hatched from a greener egg and tends to show a purple sheen. My quandry is that the one on the left has gold leakage coming in on the hackles.


I have one pullet from this hatch, a blue with very nice lacing. I have four more chicks growing out which look like three blues and a splash but they are a little too young to sex with certainty yet.

I am new to breeding Ameraucanas and to b/b/s breeding. They say build the barn first so I am inclined to keep the black on the left despite the leakage as he seems to have better type. I would like some more expert opinions tho.

 

[pips&peeps]

I would keep the blue. I wouldn't use a bird with leakage.

 

[maryhysong]

I would keep the blue. I wouldn't use a bird with leakage.

Thank you. Is that because it will continue/cause problems next generation? Like I said new to this breed and the b/b/s thing. My chicken partner also hatched eggs from the same breeder and may have some extra blacks; I have read that if you keep breeding blue to blue you lose the lacing and breeding splash to splash gives only splash, so I'm thinking that a black C over blue hens maybe the best way to go?