Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[jerryse]

i am talking about white laced buff as in Polish, unfortunately all I have to work with at the moment is 1 wheaten ameraucana rooster ànd 1 white laced buff hatchery Cornish (lacking the mahogony gene to make it white laced red) I have one chick from them that is approximately 14 weeks old

Interesting . I am not convinced white laced red is possible . Buff may be all you can get . I have seen red sex links made with Rhode Island reds and Rhode Island white . They always are a faded red / buff color with white replacing the black . Black is involved in golden laced and Mahogany . Dominant white removes black turning golden laced into white laced buff . I would like to see how this turns out . I may learn something . To breed true you will need 2 copies of dominant white . It will be interesting to see what 2 copies do to Mahogany .

 

[cgmaster]

Interesting . I am not convinced white laced red is possible . Buff may be all you can get . I have seen red sex links made with Rhode Island reds and Rhode Island white . They always are a faded red / buff color with white replacing the black . Black is involved in golden laced and Mahogany . Dominant white removes black turning golden laced into white laced buff . I would like to see how this turns out . I may learn something .  To breed true you will need 2 copies of dominant white . It will be interesting to see what 2 copies do to Mahogany .

I will have to try and make two breeding lines for that purpose, I wonder what it would do to real buff...

 

[junebuggena]

Interesting . I am not convinced white laced red is possible . Buff may be all you can get . I have seen red sex links made with Rhode Island reds and Rhode Island white . They always are a faded red / buff color with white replacing the black . Black is involved in golden laced and Mahogany . Dominant white removes black turning golden laced into white laced buff . I would like to see how this turns out . I may learn something . To breed true you will need 2 copies of dominant white . It will be interesting to see what 2 copies do to Mahogany .

You can not use a dominant white bird to make a redsexlink. Dominant white is not sexlinked. To make a red sexlink a red based rooster is crossed with a silver based hen. Silver is what makes sexlinking work, not dominant white.

 

[Ravynscroft]

You can not use a dominant white bird to make a redsexlink. Dominant white is not sexlinked. To make a red sexlink a red based rooster is crossed with a silver based hen. Silver is what makes sexlinking work, not dominant white.

Rhode Island Whites do make sexlinks... they have to be true RIW's, and can be difficult to get but they do work...

 

[jerryse]

You can not use a dominant white bird to make a redsexlink. Dominant white is not sexlinked. To make a red sexlink a red based rooster is crossed with a silver based hen. Silver is what makes sexlinking work, not dominant white.

I assume they carry silver to make it work .

 

[junebuggena]

Rhode Island Whites do make sexlinks... they have to be true RIW's, and can be difficult to get but they do work...

Yes, Rhode Island Whites can work to make red sexlinks, but they must be silver, not dominant white. They are two very different genes. Dominant white is not sexlinked. Silver is sexlinked.

 

[ChuskaMtns]

I wish I had a blue, or a black roo to use for my buff laced white project....

I have a couple of blue cockerels. The parent birds are owned by Ernie Haire in TX and I'm in Queen Creek so not terribly far from you. PM me if interested.

 

[dstokely]

As of tonight (9/9/15) there are 77 Ameraucanas entered in the Facebook virtual Champion Row poultry contest. Entries close this Friday (9/11) at midnight, so you've still got time to get those entries in! It's free and the most painless poultry show you will ever enter - no bathing, no traveling, no expenses, - just a decent pic, upload, and you're in.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/792030287517165/

Here's the breakdown

14 Black
2 C
2 H
5 K
5 P
6 Blue
1 H
2 K
3 P
1 Blue Silkied K *
19 Blue Wheaten
2 C
2 H
3 K
12 P
1 Brown Red C
7 Buff
4 K
3 P
5 Lavender *
1 C
2 K
2 P
8 Silver
3 C
1 H
3 K
1 P
1 Splash K *
1 Splash Silkied P *
13 Wheaten
2 C
3 K
8 P
1 White K

*Not APA/ABA approved color. Entered as "any other variety"

I am drawing a blank.....what is K?

 

[samouw]

C= Cock
H= Hen
K= Cockerel
P= Pullet

 

[Sylvester017]

Ok, sorry for the barrage of pics, but I got several good pics this morning. As you can see, I have way too many cockerels, so I'm starting to try and decide which ones stay. I'm keeping one blue and one black. One black is still holding on to a good bit of the purple sheen, but the rest are turning to green

Splash hen


Splash cockerel


More cockerels, but nice beard on this blue


This is the biggest black, but still holding on to the purple, and the beard looks a little rough. This is typical of all the combs at 18 weeks


Showing a lot of purple


But they are turning to this nice green. It really shimmers when the sun is out

What a lovely spacious yard (at least to me it is) and what lovely boys. We adore our Blue Wheaten girl but she sucked at her 2nd year laying - our older and broody Silkies out-performed her! Our Amer does not do well in our humid SoCalif climate and just sits and pants under the mister all day. I will not be getting any more Amer's (or EEs or Orloffs either) since these pea-combed sweeties don't seem to do well in our miserable climate. Our friend's Amers and EEs down the street slowed or stopped laying their 2nd year also and we concluded the weather is not conducive to these girls' well-being. There is nothing kinder, sweeter, to flockmates than Amer's but I can't put any more sweeties through our miserable climate. We only get about 3-4 months of cool weather in which the Amer thrives and then she's miserable the rest of the year. We are not sending her to freezer camp because she is a good flock sentinel/guardian. She's given us 3 eggs in one week and then stopped again when the humidity soared. It's a shame because her eggs are sky blue (not greenish-blue or green but ACTUAL blue) which was one of the reasons I spent the $$$ to get an Amer in the first place.

Good Luck with your cockerel selections. Do you have to wait a couple years for them to fully mature and go through a molt before you start down-sizing for breeding?