Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[flower]

Can some one post a link or information on shipment prices for birds ?

 

[pips&peeps]

It depends on where they originate and where they are going along with the weight.

Here is a link to the usps calculate postage:

http://postcalc.usps.gov/

 

[jeremy]

pips&peeps :

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Dipsy I think Jean just wanted to give us the first shot at the birds instead of posting them somewhere else. Speckledhen posted and told her to please in the future post her birds for sale in the BST section.

Henry

I had a couple people who were waiting for cockerels and I posted all of them here so they could get a look at them.​

No harm done, IMO. I love seeing pictures of your wonderful birds!

 

[hcammack]

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I had a couple people who were waiting for cockerels and I posted all of them here so they could get a look at them.

No harm done, IMO. I love seeing pictures of your wonderful birds!

I agree!

 

[Newyorkrita]

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The standard calls for the following weights: Cock = 30oz, Hen = 26oz, Cockerel = 26oz, Pullet = 24oz. They are larger than some bantams, and smaller than others. The eggs are a typical bantam size egg, small, where the LF lay a large egg.

I am just thinking that if they look the same as the Large Fowl Ameraucanas except for size that I might do better with the Bantams. I don't have that much room here but I really want the blue eggs.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Can we post pics and put a link to the BSA section? I don't really cruise the BSA section but do check this thread often. I like knowing when someone has some extra Ameraucanas.

 

[Ivywoods]

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Lavender is almost a lilac/purple color and blue is of course blue. The blue is also laced and lavender is not. They also come from two different genes the self blue recessive gene (lavender) and the blue andalusian gene (blue) is heterzygous gene which means it can produce Blues (Bb) Blacks (BB) and Splash (bb) you can do a basic punnet square with this gene.

Hey, thanks for the info. That helps. I am no geneticist(sp?) and I had never heard of a punnet square, but google is wonderful, and I found a few good illustrations to explain the simple tic-tac-toe diagram.

So to clarify what you wrote, am I correct in reading it that the blue gene and the lavender gene are both recessive, and you can do a punnet square with both of them?

Lavender bred to black give all black chicks, right?
Those chicks bred to each other gives 50% lavender and 50% black, right?
If I breed lavender to lavender, do I get all lavender?

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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The standard calls for the following weights: Cock = 30oz, Hen = 26oz, Cockerel = 26oz, Pullet = 24oz. They are larger than some bantams, and smaller than others. The eggs are a typical bantam size egg, small, where the LF lay a large egg.

I am just thinking that if they look the same as the Large Fowl Ameraucanas except for size that I might do better with the Bantams. I don't have that much room here but I really want the blue eggs.

Yeah, the bantams take ALOT less space...I have both LF and bantams, the bantams are pretty awesome!

Here's a couple of mine:

 

[dsqard]

Cloverleaf beautiful bantams! I just love the faces of the Ameraucanas! I am wondering about the green "sheen" on the black birds and what or if the SOP says anything about that. I have a black girl (LF) who has that sheen too and I have read on here that some breeds the sheen is not desireable. Do you know if it is or isn't in the Ameraucana breed?

 

[chics in the sun]

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I think they both have beards coming in, but I will double check. I know they had poofy faces when they were born (compared to their Plymouth Rock hatch mates).