Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[KKatknap]

Leslierf - If you breed a pure and very perfect Wheaten roo to a pure and very perfect Blue hen, you will end up with something that must be referred to as an EE (unless I have misunderstood all that I have read - someone correct me if I'm wrong). Ameraucanas must fall into the accepted colors to be considered Ameraucanas, and the offspring of those would probably end up looking like neither color. Even if the parents are high quality.

Better to stick with breeding color to color unless you are very knowledgable about genetics and are working to improve a certain line.

ETA - Unless you are talking about Blue, Black and Splash...then the hens can be a different color than the roo.

 

[KKatknap]

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You snuck him in there on me!

He's really looking like a big boy, now, isn't he? What a handsome little guy.

 

[klf73]

speckledhen, he's so pretty

I just LOVE the blue wheaten

 

[halo]

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Im not sure that this is entirely true, as I think that is how the blue wheatons were produced, by using wheatons over blue. If you go to the chicken calculator, Wheaton over blue should give you all solid blue and black. If you then take one of the solid blues or blacks back to a wheaton, you'll get blues, blacks, wheatons and blue wheatons. That is probably simplifying, and I may not be understanding the chicken calculator, but thats how I see it.

 

[halo]

Mr. Teenager Levi is looking very fancy these days. Cant wait to see him all grown up!

 

[nivtup]

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It really depends on what is being bred to what.

Could be "project Ameraucanas"

Could be "mutts"

Could be "EE's"

 

[halo]

Sooooo.....

I had a hatch of shipped eggs, blue/wheatons, and got 4 to hatch, which I was very satisfied with (shipping, and all that). All have little poofy cheeks, which Im very happy with, since Im having an issue with some clean faced chicks. So thats all good.

Now I have them in the brooder with a bunch of blue rock hooligans, so I dont look at them very much, but today I decided to pick them up and kissy face with them. Then I saw this:

Ive never seen this before in Ameraucanas. Is there an errant gene running around that just pops up now and again? Where would this have come from? Has anyone seen this before?

 

[nivtup]

We had an issue with our BBS and feathers on legs.

Close inspection and the offender was gone.

It is dominant so it should be evident on the breeders birds.

The offender we had only had a few very small stubs, so it took a very close look to find it.


Good luck.

 

[halo]

Now that is very interesting. So the leg feathering gene has to express itself or its not there? It doesnt float around and then just pop up when least expected?

Hard to believe that this breeder would have a bird running around with feathering, but I guess it could be so very light that it wouldnt be that noticeable.

 

[nivtup]

That is my understanding, although I am fairly sure it is variable in its expression.