Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[junebuggena]

YAY, our first Ameraucana! Welcome Abby <3

Adorable Easter Egger.

 

[thlayli]

Adorable Easter Egger.

You are savage, my friend.

 

[PollitosNS]

I have a question. My little guys are about 8 weeks old, and their feather colors are pretty different. One is fairly solid "blue" while the other is much lighter with a lot more "wheaten" in his plumage. Is this indicative of anything besides that they're just different shades? Will it reflect in their adult plumage? (They are Blue Wheatens, btw)

Dark Wilbur

Light Orville

Elliesaurus, the names get better!
I'm a total newbie but is light Orville much bigger than his darker brother? Could it be that dark Wilbur has more feathering out to do?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ah, but that's different... I was simply talking about that first cross, the F1 offspring from such a pairing... *most* Ameraucana breeders, if they cross varieties for improving in an area, don't sell from that line/pen until the crossbacks are breeding true again... or at least, if there are culls sold off during that time, *most* would not sell them as Ameraucanas but as EE's... or labeled 'Projects' for working with breeding for another that has use for it...

My point was, there was someone who bought and hatched a bunch of eggs from someone else that had true Ameraucanas... when they asked for help evaluating to decide on the cockerel to keep for breeding, they unfortunately discovered they had a bunch of EE's... a couple were to standard, but most were not... come to find out, the one they bought from wasn't aware that varieties should not (in general) be mixed together when bred... they had something like a blue wheaten cockbird over regular blues, blacks, splash, self blues and wheatens... resulting in most of what they hatched being a mishmash of colors...

My personal stance is, and I have seen it with many others, if it's got defects making it no good for breeding within my own program, then it is sold strictly as an EE... and explained why... if I would use it, but just have surplus, then it goes as an Ameraucana...

I guess ameraucanas are unique in that they have a built in scapegoat with the EEs.
I get what youre saying and it makes sense but from your first post I still cant agree that two different colored purebreds when crossed should be called a cross bred. I could agree but on the other end I know you can bring crossed colors back to correct color and it would make no sense to say the new correct color purebred came from two cross breds.
The ameraucana/ EE thing is crazy to me. Ameraucana breeders get so up in arms about people calling EEs ameraucanas and yet they call all their ameraucana culls EEs. So sounds like some EEs would in fact be pure ameraucanas just not quality ones.
I often wondered why I never hear of poorly bred ameraucanas or color crossed ones. Now I know its because those all turned into EEs.

 

[MAchicken105]

Can anyone help me sex these Ameraucanas?

 

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