Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Ivywoods]

Oh, you guys are killing me. I have my order in for lavender ameraucanas (along with black and silver) and it is SO hard to wait! I just think so many of the ones I've seen here pictured on this thread are GORGEOUS!

It seems like a lot of breeders out there have some very nice lavenders. I seems to me they should be accepted by the APA soon. Does anyone have any ideas about that? I would like to be able to show mine (when the time comes............) at least at a somewhat local level.

I also have marans (black copper) but I'm afraid they might be a long ways from being accepted. Mine all have such variation, and so many of the people I've read on BYC have the same variations. I think it's going to take quite some time to get more consistency there.

HappyMTN, CrystalCreek and others---Your birds are BEAUTIFUL!

 

[TK Poultry]

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The Lavender qualifying meet is at the Crossroads show in Indianapolis, Indiana. I'm not sure if its just bantams or bantams and LF. But maybe they'll do what they did originally and let the LF piggback so to speak off the Bantams.

 

[TK Poultry]

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I'm not a big name breeder, like Jean, Mike, John, or any of the others, at all! but I feel like if you mix a buff orp with a black orp its still and orpington but not good color. all the traits are their just not in a good pakage. That's my opinion. Me and the hatcheries have been duking it out over the definition of an EE.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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the qualifing meet for black coppers is in Feb (i think the 11th) at the Newnan GA show...

sry for the off topic

 

[pips&peeps]

The club will be discussing a qualifying meet on the lavenders, but I personally think they are not ready. I have seen too many birds with high tails, small bodies, incorrect eye color, poor feathering and some lines with too much fluff. I would like to see tighter feathering and some more consistancy in the type, but others disagree. It's a democracy, so what ever the majority wants, thats what we will strive to do. I also do not know if we have five breeders that have been breeding them for five years.

We have a long road to get them admitted since we are going to have to argue tooth and nail the the APA and ABA about the variety name lavender.



Ewesheep, if the birds have yellow legs, then they are easter eggers. Mine line of whites have had very pale slate legs because of the barring gene hiding under the white. The barring gene is a dermal pigment inhibitor, which means the eyes will lighten and the legs will also. I crossed another line into mine last year to try to remove this gene and am only keeping the offspring that have very dark legs.

There are many wild genes that can crop up out of the blue and ruin a bird for breeding. My light legged birds are real ameraucanas, but, I make sure they are not used for breeding.

The light leg thing also happens in the wheaten variety. I am not educated though in what causes this. I just remove any offspring with light legs from potential breeding stock.

If you check Sandhills site, I believe they do say that they have black birds only from show lines and the others are merely easter eggers. The only way to truely find out would be to call them and ask.

I do still call any mixed variety ameraucanas an ameraucana, but I sale them as such.

I think that you will find that most (not all) of your hatchery birds do have yellow skin and that is where you will be able to nail them down on the SOP.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Hey Jean, I went out and took some new pics of my lavender boy, just for fun...they are all muddy, but not much to do about that this time of year!

His tail looks funny because the wind is REALLY blowing out there today...

One with his smaller hatchmate in front of him:

Just to show how TINY one of my pullets is next to him (from another line that I won't mention)...

2 of my muddy lavender girls...

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Sooo pretty! Too bad the color name "silver" was already taken.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Thanks! Yeah, that would've been perfect! lol

 

[pips&peeps]

You need to give that boy back to me now!!!

I think I may bring some pullets over to Monroe so I can get some babies out of him....

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

Must have been hard to part with that beautiful boy

Can't wait for 2012 to come - that's when DH has approved adding our new lavendar line.