Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Lelanae]

Thank you! I have a welsummer hen who is such a loud-mouth, that I hope she drowns any cockerel boys choir until I can re-home him/them. It is ridiculous--we have a brain-numbing fire siren in our town, Harleys on Sundays rumbling around the block and trucks--but the ordinance is anti rooster.

 

[Roger98]

Does anyone know what this color is called or if it even has a name?

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Does anyone know what this color is called or if it even has a name?
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its a blue something... but with those green legs, the bird is an ee... She's really pretty though!

 

[Lelanae]

Does anyone know what this color is called or if it even has a name?
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Gorgeous color! I have seen this called Splash--if the buff were more lemony and the chicken was an orpington, it might be Isabel.

 

[Flaisure]

My 11wk old Ameraucana / Lavender Orpington hen. Her name is Tulip.

 

[Lelanae]

WOW! What a fantastic cross and a gorgeous bird! I haven't seen a cross I loved so much since I saw another BYC member's orpinton/coro sussex cross.

 

[Flaisure]

WOW! What a fantastic cross and a gorgeous bird! I haven't seen a cross I loved so much since I saw another BYC member's orpinton/coro sussex cross.

She is beautiful! I don’t know how I got so lucky to get such a beautiful bird. I also have a White Crested Blue Polish / Lavender Orpington Roo and a Buff Orpington/ Lavender Orpington hen. They all turned out so beautiful

 

[Lelanae]

She is beautiful! I don’t know how I got so lucky to get such a beautiful bird. I also have a White Crested Blue Polish / Lavender Orpington Roo and a Buff Orpington/ Lavender Orpington hen. They all turned out so beautiful


I would love to see pictures of all of them--maybe on the orpington thread?
I had to re-home a gorgeous lavender cuckoo orpington roo--the farmer who took him had buff orpington and production red hens. I always wondered what his babies were going to look like!

 

[LilJoe]

Just got some blue and black ameraucana chicks!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Hello! So I am raising out some LF wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucanas that look nice except for a few key traits.

I am looking to raise out show quality birds sometime and I'm having one heck of a time getting SQ stock (ANY stock really) so I am starting with what I've got and working my way there. I'm not there yet but I have to start somewhere.

If I were to cross in another chicken to start improving some traits, what should I cross in presuming that I can't get LF wheatens that have the traits I want. I am especially looking at leg color, lay rate, egg color, and bird size (a wee bit too small right now). Which one of these would be best? And which one would be second best if I can't pull off the suggested first?

A LF ameraucana of another very common color such as BBS of good quality origins
An 'Easter Egger' that's half LF wheaten ameraucana, lays blue eggs, has similar colors and has the traits I want but some other traits are much worse (such as no muffs, very different body shape or a single comb).
A higher quality bantam wheaten ameraucana
Some other chicken entirely?

Please give me your thoughts! Thanks!