Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[crazy4eggsJulie]

Okay-I've waited as long as I can without posting. These are my wheaten/blue wheaten babies from Jean. Surely y'all can tell me something about these colors. Are the darker ones males or females? One almost has spots of black.

Also, this is my only blue baby. I have a super sad feeling it is a boy. Can anyone confirm?

One row is higher, but I see three rows, but then again all 20 of them seem to have 3 rows of peas!

 

[Goose and Fig]

Julie- looks like you have at least 3 wheaten boys. The BW that I have took longer to show himself. I can't tell on the blue yet. Lovely though!

 

[crazy4eggsJulie]

So sorry to hear this Up the Creek. I tried to put babies out of the 'bator with a wondeful broody and her 5 chicks. Rubbed them on mama hen to get her scent on them. Came out a few minutes later and she had pecked one tiny cochin to death...or so I thought. It was barely breathing and pretty limp and wouldn't open its eyes. We used a dropper and forced antibotics into its mouth and it came back! It has a pecked spot above the eye, but appears to be fine now. I was stunned at that crazy broody. She is otherwise a wonderful mother and incredibly gentle chicken.
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[McSpin]

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No, it's not a really bad thing. If you plan to show, egg color is not judged. If you don't plan to show, but plan to sell your eggs, it will depend on who's buying. If you don't plan to show and don't plan to sell, then it's up to you to determine.

As a side note, all ameraucana eggs have a hint of green to them - at least every one I've seen. If you look at the ABC Egg Color chart, you'll see that blue is not even on the chart. A7-A8 are about the closest, but even they are distinctly green when holding true blue up next to them. So, ameraucana eggs are actually a blue/green color with the best of them leaning towards more blue than green. The standard calls for a blue egg, but since I don't think a single bird has achieved this yet, the best any of us can do is to work towards it - if that's what turns you on.

 

[AmberH]

This is my baby Taryn. I owned her about three years ago. She was wild and never tamed down. This is the only picture of her.

 

[hcammack]

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She is an EE not an Ameraucana.

 

[AmberH]

I thought I might get that reply.
I got her from a good friend of mine. He has show Ameraucana in black, silver, and lavender. At the time, I don't think that the last two were accepted colors. That female is from show stock. His birds place well.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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I thought she looked like a silver ameraucana. I haven't seen too many of them. Very cute!

 

[Shannon's Chix]

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No, it's not a really bad thing. If you plan to show, egg color is not judged. If you don't plan to show, but plan to sell your eggs, it will depend on who's buying. If you don't plan to show and don't plan to sell, then it's up to you to determine.

As a side note, all ameraucana eggs have a hint of green to them - at least every one I've seen. If you look at the ABC Egg Color chart, you'll see that blue is not even on the chart. A7-A8 are about the closest, but even they are distinctly green when holding true blue up next to them. So, ameraucana eggs are actually a blue/green color with the best of them leaning towards more blue than green. The standard calls for a blue egg, but since I don't think a single bird has achieved this yet, the best any of us can do is to work towards it - if that's what turns you on.

Thanks Steve. I guess I saw some really really blue eggs on websites and expected them to look like that. When I compared them to my ee's eggs I could tell the difference so I feel a bit better!

 

[verycherry]

Actually, I didn't recognize Taryn as a Silver either at first, due to a slight green cast to the picture and the lack of beard and muffs at that "awkward age". I can see the breast color now though. She looks so sweet natured in the photo, but I know what you mean by wild. My Silvers were a little wild when I first got them too, and after a couple months are just now getting tame enough to want to fly onto my lap.......they still don't, but they act like they want to and then chicken out. I can pick them up and put them in my lap though and they stay, so we're making progress, lol!