Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Kansaseq]

I'm getting my new chicken house moved in tomorrow morning. (it's an antique horsedrawn blacksmith wagon that has been converted into a farm shop.)

Ivywoods, Please,please PLEASE post pics of your Ameraucana coop (in the coops section,of course

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[Hens and Roos]

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That looks fimilar from reading posts in here, thanks!

 

[TK Poultry]

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Lavender is recessive and blue is heterozygous which means it carries one dominant allele and one recessive allele.
you should be able to Punnet Square them all
Lavender would be (ll) and Black would be (BB). Dominant alleles are always capital and recessive are always lower case.

I just sat and did a Punnet square and they work out very nicely they are just simple 2x2 Punnet Squares with simple genes. I can only do like a 6x6 but I would have a hard time its been awhile LOL. You have to love Honors Biology!!

So a Black Split x Black Split will yield you 25% Black 50% Black Split and 25% Lavender.
Hope this helps! Sorry it took awhile and others answered before me but I thought it was only polite to give you an answer myself as well

Cool... I think I got it! (I'm somewhat trainable)

Good that is the first time I've ever explained something like that.

 

[Hens and Roos]

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Cool... I think I got it! (I'm somewhat trainable)

Good that is the first time I've ever explained something like that.

So just to clearify for my understanding a Black Split chicken is black but has the recessive lavender, which would show in the next generation of breeding?

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Good that is the first time I've ever explained something like that.

So just to clearify for my understanding a Black Split chicken is black but has the recessive lavender, which would show in the next generation of breeding?

If bred to a lavender or another split. If you breed it to one of the( 25%) blacks, you'll still just have blacks. I really wish the split x lav ratio for pure lavs was higher. I have a lovely black roo, but I don't want to end up with too many splits.

 

[pips&peeps]

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Good that is the first time I've ever explained something like that.

So just to clearify for my understanding a Black Split chicken is black but has the recessive lavender, which would show in the next generation of breeding?

If you are talking about the lavender gene. I have black split chickens that are split with the silver gene because I am working on a project.

 

[TK Poultry]

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Good that is the first time I've ever explained something like that.

So just to clearify for my understanding a Black Split chicken is black but has the recessive lavender, which would show in the next generation of breeding?

Yes it would carry one lavender gene if we use my BB and ll example above splits would be Bl.

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

OMG. I didn't know there were Lavender Ameraucanas. THAT's what I need to get to work on porcelain Orloffs...or Porcelain Ameraucanas! Actually, I need both Buff and Lavender, because I first have to make Mille Fleur.

Forget Buff Chanteclers and Lavender Orpingtons for that project!

Actually, these birds will end up being mostly Ameraucana by the time I get the colors right. How many generations of breeding back to Am does it take to get a decent egg and leg color back? Hopefully the comb won't be TOO hard to overcome, since these Orloffs have small walnut combs to start with. Body type is somewhat similar, too. Beards/muffs, check. Oooh, I can see it now.

Edited to add I've seen reports of Orloffs laying from a "tinted" color egg to very light brown. Not sure yet what these pullets will throw, but we'll know by spring.

 

[Dixiedoodle]

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Beautiful basket of eggs.. What other breeds do you have? I can't wait for my FBCM and true Ameraucanas to start laying...

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

For Blue Wheaten and Wheaten Am's... is there a way to feather-sex chicks at hatch? In other words, do cockerels hatch with darker wing feathers or do I have to wait for them to really start feathering out to tell the difference?