Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Some of my splash have had both slate and "splashes" of dark slate/black on their legs/feet.

Mine do too. It is only like that on my splashes though. I like it. I think it makes them more unique and really is a nice "accessorie" to their plumage

 

[Heatherschix]

You breed blue black an splash together. Wheaten, blue wheaten, and splash wheaten together. You shouldn't cross wheaten and white or anything like that. And look back in thread pictures or do a google search for BBS breeding chart

Thanks for the reply. I was having trouble finding that info for some reason.

 

[Euarto Gullible]

My new Ameraucanas are rapidly becoming my favorites.

 

[ChickenLeg]

You breed blue black an splash together. Wheaten, blue wheaten, and splash wheaten together. You shouldn't cross wheaten and white or anything like that. And look back in thread pictures or do a google search for BBS breeding chart

Do you use whites to find dominant genes? I remember reading on some genetic article about starting with white or blacks as a base and being able to cross a dominate white or black to fid what base color was used on a specific lineage. Have you ever heard of anything like this?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Do you use whites to find dominant genes? I remember reading on some genetic article about starting with white or blacks as a base and being able to cross a dominate white or black to fid what base color was used on a specific lineage. Have you ever heard of anything like this?

No, I haven't. I don't mess with any colors but blue black and splash in ameraucanas. Not my cup of tea

 

[ChickenLeg]

Blacks are nice, I don't care too much for blues or spalashes, they look nice, but blacks are easier to breed in my opinion.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Blacks are nice, I don't care too much for blues or spalashes, they look nice, but blacks are easier to breed in my opinion.

Blues and splashes are my favorite. We are opposite of each other

 

[dstokely]

Blues and splashes are my favorite. We are opposite of each other

So far, splashes are my favorite, too. I do like the blue wheatens as well, but I am not sure that I want to have to keep the different colors separated, so I suspect, in the long run, I will pare down to the blue, black, splash.

 

[dstokely]

Blacks are nice, I don't care too much for blues or spalashes, they look nice, but blacks are easier to breed in my opinion.

My fellow Tennessean.....for my own education, why do you think blacks are easier to breed? And, just so you will know, I have not bred any Ameraucanas. This is my first flock. I have only bred brown layers previously, primarily RIRs.

 

[ChickenLeg]

My fellow Tennessean.....for my own education, why do you think blacks are easier to breed? And, just so you will know, I have not bread any Ameraucanas. This is my first flock. I have only bread brown layers previously, primarily RIRs.

Hey I actually lived in Knoxville all of last year, great scenery!

Blacks are a personal preference of course, but blues lack good lacing in ameraucanas so that's always a constant challenge, and splashes are nice to look at and I'm sure they are good for some breeding purposes if you are breeding BBS, but since I wouldn't breed blues then splashes just take up extra space. Black/whites would be my preference on breeding just for the less hassle of worrying about color, I mean you have to already worry about body type, egg color/production, and other traits. One less trait to have to work at helps out in my books. Though I guess black or white might look too plain for someone else, I think they look elegant

With all that being said... I sold/gave away all my blacks, one white, and wheaten/ BW and lavenders last year before I moved to Knoxville. Now that I've gotten back in the game, I have wheatens and lavenders living together because I don't want to breed chickens I just want pretty ones to look at BTW I would never get serious about trying to breed wheatens again due to all the hassle they are!