Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Apocha14]

Also, I know he's far from perfect but how does my Roo look?

 

[sssharon]

Apocha,As far as I'm concerned he is a beautiful roo! Very pretty colors.

 

[Sylvester017]

I posted about my pure Am girl laying a creamish egg a little while ago and got some opinions on her. Well...I just noticed while I was frying up couple of her eggs that the inside of her eggs are pink. Like pink pink. I have never seen anything like it. Even my brown eggs are white on the inside of the shell. What causes the pink hue?

Just as the blue eggs will have blue interior shells, so it is with pink eggs - pink eggs have the interior pink shell. Brown egg layers however have white interiors because the brown pigment is painted on the outside shell right before laying the egg.

 

[MrsBachbach]

Also, I know he's far from perfect but how does my Roo look?

Well I can't tell anything body wise on the chicks because you are holding them, but, unless those are males with very small combs, they look female to me based on comb. I don't know about the white one.

That blue male looks nice...comb is a bit large, wings a bit low, but I've seen worse out there.

 

[MrsBachbach]

Just as the blue eggs will have blue interior shells, so it is with pink eggs - pink eggs have the interior pink shell. Brown egg layers however have white interiors because the brown pigment is painted on the outside shell right before laying the egg.

I find the pink egg interesting. I have read that there are only two true egg colors. White and blue, with blue being dominant. So a bird actually only has either white or blue and that would be what you would see inside. I thought pink would be a white egg with one of the sixteen brown egg genes deposited on it to create "pink". That it goes all the way through the shell is perplexing.

 

[Apocha14]

That's what I'm thinking! The white one is a little older I'm thinking. Maybe 11 weeks or 12. Acts like a female and no pointy hackles or saddle feathers or anything but red comb really fast. And the rooster was $5. Got him from an elderly gentleman who got a rooster from his friend but didn't know how loud roosters could be haha

 

[RangeChicks]

OK.....Here are 3 more that are 3 ½ months old. Please, please tell me I have some pullets in this bunch........

 

[EastNashChick]

OK.....Here are 3 more that are 3 ½ months old. Please, please tell me I have some pullets in this bunch........

Do you have any photos of their back and tail feathering?

 

[jsayles86]

Thanks for the advice. I only have 3 chicks coming, so I am hoping for the best.

 

[RangeChicks]

Do you have any photos of their back and tail feathering?

I will get some recent ones later today