Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[tigercreek]

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?

A must read for anyone planning to breed blues. It got my brain in gear! http://ameraucana.org/forum/index.php?topic=1733.0. .......stan

 

[pathwandering]

Thank you for your thoughts on my bird. She certainly has been acting like a cockerel. The feathers have been getting more and more of that shiny green tone, visible in the sun.
I'm curious what makes her an EE? Is it that the mottled coloring isn't yet accepted or is the beard too small or is it something else? Really I'm ok with it being an EE, I'm just curious.

 

[Folly's place]

Hi everyone, I just wanted to show off my one year old rooster; I'm not interested in showing, but wondered how you all think he looks. Thanks in advance, and my feelings won't be hurt by any comments. Mary

 

[tigercreek]

Hi everyone, I just wanted to show off my one year old rooster; I'm not interested in showing, but wondered how you all think he looks. Thanks in advance, and my feelings won't be hurt by any comments. Mary




I think the best thing for you to do is to pack him up and send him to me...That bird needs to be shown!!

 

[FVRM]

Thank you for your thoughts on my bird. She certainly has been acting like a cockerel. The feathers have been getting more and more of that shiny green tone, visible in the sun.
I'm curious what makes her an EE? Is it that the mottled coloring isn't yet accepted or is the beard too small or is it something else? Really I'm ok with it being an EE, I'm just curious.

Well it depends on where you got him from. Farm store? Hatchery? I know a hatchery is selling pure black ameracaunas now but.... it's the white patches on his face mostly.

 

[emmyeagle]

Ok thank you.

 

[jajeanpierre]

Well it depends on where you got him from. Farm store? Hatchery? I know a hatchery is selling pure black ameracaunas now but.... it's the white patches on his face mostly.

I have some juvenile black Ameraucanas. Some have some white on the face, not quite as much as Pathwandering's bird, but they are definitely not EEs.

 

[FVRM]

I have some juvenile black Ameraucanas. Some have some white on the face, not quite as much as Pathwandering's bird, but they are definitely not EEs.

I didn't say it was an EE it just looked suspicious because of the white. Blacks are hard to tell if they're purebred sometimes. Pathwandering where you get it from?

 

[hotlipshens]

Meyers sells blues. Is another selling just blacks?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

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

i would grow them all out. you will not have a hard time selling the culls. I just call them Blue layers or Easter eggers when I sell the ones I have hatched