Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

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Coming home from a show. I showed two Ameraucana. 2nd and RB with a blue and 1st and BB with a splash.

 

[RoosterLew]

I wanted to say pullet, but then looks like some sickles forming there which means cockerel, but the absence of other things at that age, but could be slow maturing...so I figured I better go with:
I guarantee if it lays an egg it's a girl.
Sometimes they fool Ya

 

[Regin]

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Nice going, congratulations!

(we need pictures)

 

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Nice going, congratulations! 
(we need pictures)

Thanks I will get some up sometime. It might be next week though

 

[MrsBachbach]

You are going to have to help me here.  Where are the saddle feathers?   I will try to get another picture tomorrow, but the blacks and blues are much wilder than the others.  These chicks are 18 wks old.  The Blues, Blue Wheaten and Lavender are clearly distinguishable as cockerels.

They are located at the base of that tail. I see where you said 18 weeks. Well, at that age it should be showing some saddle feathers. Dig around on the lower back and see if you can spot any pointy feathers coming out or already out. I've seen blacks with very small to non existant combs so the only sure way to tell is wait for saddle and hackle feathers to come out. Hackles are on the neck and also pointy instead of round. The tail on that bird (both in fact) do not look like hen tails. That's why I think you could have a male. I had a black last year that I thought was a pullet until sixteen weeks of age when I discovered saddle feathers. I have a 14 wk old now with no evidence of a cockerals comb, but has saddle feathers coming in now.

 

[pips&peeps]

Coming home from a show. I showed two Ameraucana. 2nd and RB with a blue and 1st and BB with a splash.

You cannot get BB with a splash as it is a nonrecognized variety and can only place BV.

 

[MrsBachbach]

I followed that posting with a comment about my poor memory when I went back and looked at a picture I had posted when they were a week old.  One was the color I remembered, but the other two were the color you are saying.  Oops!

Yea, I should have read more before posting.

 

[MrsBachbach]

Coming home from a show. I showed two Ameraucana. 2nd and RB with a blue and 1st and BB with a splash.

A splash? Wow! Congratulations! Post a pic of that bad boy! Or girl!

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

My lovely Wheaten Ameraucana, Rocky and her constant companion Apollo (black mix)!
Rocky is quite special, she was the lone survivor of a hatch that lost power on day 17!!!

Question for Ameraucana breeders. Will her muff get larger as she ages? And are Ameraucanas more 'plump' looking than other breeds?

She is 13 weeks old and has the round body of a hen already.

 

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You cannot get BB with a splash as it is a nonrecognized variety and can only place BV.

My mistake meant to put BV. See you guys have to keep me in line, I make a lot of typos. But the blue hen did get RB

A splash? Wow! Congratulations! Post a pic of that bad boy! Or girl!

Thanks, a girl. And will post some sometime