Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[pips&peeps]

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Where did you get the eggs?

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

cpartist.

They came all the way from Florida!

 

[Goose and Fig]

I had one with really faint chipmunk stripes out of halo's eggs a while back. It grew up to be lovely wheaten, but clean- faced.

Congrats on an awesome hatch though!!!!! Yay babies!

 

[pips&peeps]

I have only seen those markings on one chick and they were not from my line. If you do get any kind of markings on a wheaten/blue wheaten it is usually just a faint dot on the head.

You may want to mark the bird or toe punch so you can watch it as it matures.

 

[tgrlily]

Why is it so hard to photograph blue eggs? I've been tring to get a decent pic for days.
I took this saturday... left to right behind the EE egg are wheaten, lav or split & white:

& this today... the chair the plate of eggs is on is actually blue:

same eggs on the windowsill... white ameraucana on the bottom, lav & split on top:

 

[pips&peeps]

Try using a red background.

ETA: These are from a photo with a red background taken inside. (wtn/b wtns)

 

[Goose and Fig]

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I had the hardest time too. I took several pictures of my lav eggs in the same spot
(under a skylight) throughout the day. The afternoon pics (about 4 pm) came out the closest to the way I see them in real life. They also look pretty good under a "reveal" light, but still not quite how your eyes would see them. The white background definitely helps. I am, by no means, a professional photographer

Here's another skylight pic from a while back: (one of Jean's wheaten eggs)

 

[TK Poultry]

I had a thought the other day wonder if everyone took egg pictures on a universal backround so that new fanciers wouldn't get the wool pulled over their eyes. I think that just take a picture of your eggs on the ABC egg chart in natural light might be a good universal basis. because whatever the light does to the egg might do to the chart and for people with a chart they can say in the picture it looks like a ... then they can see what it looks like to them. This is just a thought. I think all breeds that egg color matters in should do the same thing. I think the talk on egg photography rivals the talk on EE vs Ameraucana vs Araucana. I was just trying to propose a solution.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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That makes sense, but there's so much variation in the light depending on time of day and maybe even the season, and where your birds are in their laying cycle.

I did buy the 2 color cards- I'll have to see how a pic comes out.

 

[TK Poultry]

I've talked about people about this and if we can just get a unfied decision on just a way to photograph eggs that may take guess work and false photographs out of the equation.