Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Illia]

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Well, basically you should have the Wheaten father, blue mother, then out of those you should get 1/4th Blue Wheatens. From there, use those and you'll be fine. The best to do, really, is take a Wheaten female or male and pair it with a Blue Wheaten from your first gen. After that - You've got Blue Wheatens and Wheatens together.

Course, this is with standard Wheatens, which are slightly different from Ameraucana Wheatens - I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.

The 3 generations part is if you have a blue father x wheaten mother. I believe one of the reasons is because blues have silver genes, not gold.

thanks I have always wondered about that, they are some pretty birds, I was thinking you had to cross a splash with a wheaten

You can do that too. Splash, blue, they're practically the same - Splash just gives 50% more of a choice for the first gen.

 

[jeb251]

Heck I might try to make some, I just need a slash or blue and some wheatons lol

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Hmmmm. I think if you put a splash in with a wheaten you'll get all blues.

 

[jeb251]

thats kinda what I was thinking

 

[chickee]

I have a question

I have 2 week old Ameraucana chicks (Avatar picture) and 2 have tails and 3 don't have tails yet. Any guess as to which are the males and which are the females?

 

[Goose and Fig]

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With the wheatens you can usually tell at 3 to 4 weeks. The solid colors can take longer to tell. I've had splits fool me until they were 4 months old.

 

[chickee]

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With the wheatens you can usually tell at 3 to 4 weeks. The solid colors can take longer to tell. I've had splits fool me until they were 4 months old.

Thanks HappyMtn

So slow feather developement isn't a good indicater? In my Wyandottes the rooster chicks wing and tail feathers develope sooner than the pullets, so I was hoping it was the same for the Ameraucanas

 

[Illia]

I find that tail growth can sometimes be a good indicator with Ameraucanas and Ameraucana crosses, but nothing you should really lean to for sexing. It really can vary. I just wait until combs, color, or otherwise will tell me.

 

[chickee]

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Thank-you Illia!

I'm sure different bloodlines tend to develope differently also. The Wheaten chick has color coming in on the wings (but lighter~maybe blue) like the Wheaten roo from the previous hatch, so maybe the two with tails are roosters which would mean I have 3 pullets. One can only hope!

I'll post when I know for sure. It might be a help for others who are anxious to sex their babies

 

[cheryl98117]

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Hey Illia! You wouldn't happen to have a picture of the other roo behind your black would you?