Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Illia]

pips&peeps :

I think she meant a curved spine. I think it is just the way he is standing/moving in the picture.

Yep and yep.​

 

[SteveH]

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My experience crossing a white Ameraucana with various other colors to make EEs. along with another's outcrosses useing a white from another breeder, indicated they were not pure recessive white. Both birds produced a few, mostly white chicks in the F1s. While different birds or different strains may vary, both of those birds produced like the third type of white found on the calculator; it is labeled as simply White rather than recessive or dominate.

A later discussion with the breeder of my white gave me the information that her white Ameraucanas were hatched with down colors of smokey, yellow, and blue; all then feathered to pure white. Yellow down is an indicator of dominate white in my limited experience. She told me some white Ameraucanas may carry recessive white, dominate white, and silver all in one bird..................................... plus genes known to break up color such as those for barring, mottleing, and splash blue. Since I'm 99.9% sure none of the pullets I used were carrying recessive white, I believe my roo was carrying a copy of silver as was one of my pullets. On gold or red, patterned with black, pullets; he also threw a high percentage of blue that are feathering blue with gold leakage, and some blacks that have so far remained solid black.

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

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Can't wait! Some of those and some Orloffs, please.

Bearded birds are best.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

It's official! I have 13 (out of 15 shipped!) W/BW Ameraucanas going into lockdown in 2 days!

ETA: My first hatch EVER!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Wow that is great for shipped eggs!!!!! Happy hatching

 

[SteveH]

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[chickee]

That is great for shipped eggs! Where did they come from?

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[WhiteMountainsRanch]

A BYC member that I hardly see around anymore... where did she go....?

But YAY!!! SOOOOO EGGCITED!!!!!

 

[Goose and Fig]

Cpartist? I thought you said they were from Florida. I've always wanted eggs from cpartist so I was totally jealous

 

[marquisella]

I have a question. If you have lavendar birds of one breed, and breed them to blacks from another breed, Will you get some lavendar of the 2nd breed. I realize you will get some splits, and that is ok. Or will all the F1s be split to black?

Is this how people introduce lavendar into a breed?

Sue