Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Nofowlplay]

This is "Elizabeth" the rooster that started crowing at 3 months. He was too pretty to be a girl from the start.
Here he is at about 2 weeks old. I am wondering if the "eyeliner" look is indicative of a male.

Gorgeous! Is he a purebred or an EE?

 

[Nofowlplay]

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Zowie! I did not know the roosters

were so colorful!

 

[Nofowlplay]

I'm seeing in order: 2 male blue wheatens, one male wheaten. One female splash wheaten, second female I don't know what it is, third female is either wheaten or blue wheaten. I can't see the color in the wings or tail very well.

Sorry for the questions.....so this group is purebred Ameraucana?

 

[MrsBachbach]

Sorry for the questions.....so this group is purebred Ameraucana?

Some look to be, others are questionable.

The colorful varieties of Ameraucana are brown/reds, wheatens and silvers if you are talking about multi-colored.

 

[MrsBachbach]

LOL, I wasn't...I was blaming him for the colors...HE seems to throw black & white girls and colored boys!

But I guess that's on the hens too?
What a headache I get from trying to figure genetics on feed store birds!
They were our first, he came out of the "Pan-fry specials" bin, lol!

But still every time we get a chick that looks like he did, It is always a male!

He is pretty striking.

 

[Nofowlplay]

Rita has gone broody again! That's the 4th time since I've had her! She will be a year old next month. She is really in a trance. Its takes longer to make her leave the nest and go eat and drink.....sigh.
No blue eggs for awhile.

 

[MrsBachbach]

Rita has gone broody again! That's the 4th time since I've had her! She will be a year old next month. She is really in a trance. Its takes longer to make her leave the nest and go eat and drink.....sigh. No blue eggs for awhile.

I have some broody also! I keep having to put them in dog crates to break them out of it. I have one that is very persistant. I can get her broke, but in a few weeks she is broody again. Three times this year so far.

 

[Nofowlplay]

I have some broody also! I keep having to put them in dog crates to break them out of it. I have one that is very persistant. I can get her broke, but in a few weeks she is broody again. Three times this year so far.

Ya know....If I had the room and resources Id just buy some hatching eggs for her. She has a ceramic egg for comfort. She takes up the favorite nesting box out of the 4. The other girls just go right in the nest box and lay their eggs and then she has those to sit on too! LOL! She probably thinks she has a large clutch of eggs to hatch...poor girl.

 

[Jazzygirl63]

They definately look to be of the wheaten/blue wheaten variety but not good specimens. From the descriptions I have read that really does look like a splash female. She has white in the tail feathers where either blue or black should be. That's what I've read in more than one place. That middle female color is really off so I would question her. Males tend to look a mess when young and yours still do. Some of the issues with wheaten/blue wheaten varieties are bleeding into the chest and other areas that should be blue or black and bleeding into the tails and black in the hackle and saddle feathers. That last male also does not have a proper tail. Curious as to where you got them. Can pm me if you wish.

I got them from wings n things. Shes sold birds for 20 yrs. She said they were pure as well as her blue splash marans. She has ribbons for her show birds and showed me all her adults. I cant imagine she didnt know the difference. Im a little bummed if the are EE's. As I wanted pure.

 

[Jazzygirl63]

That might explain some of the issues if she did a cross in the past. The first three are boys. You can tell by the color in this case.

Here is what my blue wheaten looked like at around thirteen weeks.

Here is a full grown wheaten male

In the blues, there will be blue where there is black in the wheatens.

Here is a blue wheaten grown female. Now, there will be some variation in the lightness or darkness of the buff color.

How old are your males? At second glance they do seem to be lacking the red filling in on the head. The wheaten male comes close, but that tail doesn't look right. Yes, I would say something is going on in that flock.

I think they are around 4 months. Maybe a little under cuz they are smaller by alot from my other chickens. Their colors are crazy. All have a blue grey coloring on their feet. Their faces are just now starting to get pink and redish