Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[BuffyGRL]

Ok crazy question but here goes? Is it possible to produce a Chocolate Ameraucana. I know it would be a NON-standard Color or EE but what could make that happen?

Because....

I had 2 chicks born in my experiement breeding and they darn sure are Chocolate. I will get pictures soon!

Just needed someone to tell me how that could happen. The Rooster isn't from my stock and I have no clue what exactly his genetics are. I was just trying to produce some nice EE's and whola! It happened!

The reason I posted here is because I figure more genetics question and would get a better answer here.

Thanks for any help!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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I know nothing about chocolate, but I have come up with some crazy results in my EE pen. I don't see why it couldn't happen. Pics would be very cool!

 

[irf1983]

Would anyone be able to recommend a good ameracauna breeder in the southeast? also, just curious if anyone has ever used their ameracaunas for meat? Thanks!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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cpartist (on BYC) has some beautiful eggs, and they are in Florida. Guess it depends on what color birds you want though. I can't see myself ever eating any of the Ams- they don't really have the size and breast to be dual purpose.

 

[BuffyGRL]

I Am Working On Pictures...of The Chocolate Babies

 

[jeremy]

Is it true Chocolate? The sex linked, recessive gene that's found primarily in the UK Chocolate?

OR are you talking about Dun/Khaki Chocolate? They are very different genetically.

 

[BuffyGRL]

pics too small..

 

[BuffyGRL]

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I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CHOCOLATE OR DUN...CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT MAKES CHOCOLATE?? i DON'T KNOW WHAT CAUSE IT IN OTHER WORDS, lol

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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i eat all my extra roosters... tastes like chicken

smaller than some but it works out...

 

[Illia]

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Sorry, but I am 99% sure that what you have is simply a partridge-type colored chick there. Often, and especially in EE type colors, or generally speaking, in EE's - You can have solid chocolate colored chicks born that will really convince you they are such, but then you'll find them to feather out, and the further along they come, the more you'll see that they're just a penciled/partridge black and brown coloration as commonly found on Easter Eggers. I've had a lot of chicks come out that way.

The only way to make "chocolate" coloration is through the dun gene or through the chocolate gene, which unless you have over $5,000 to spend on poultry, you're not going to get anytime soon.

The dun gene is possibly in buffs but there is absolutely no gaurantee. Even then, you'll have to dig it out of the buffs by crossing to black, then taking a chocolate penciled from there, cross to black, then cross two resulting chocolate/dun birds to get a dun, black, khaki breeding. The dun gene works a lot like blue.