Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[jeremy]

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What color variety did they come from?

Wheatens! Supposedly Blehm (line). This is the second time this happened to me this month- last time I didn't even set the white ones- I had a pretty full bator and I figured my lav eggs would be better served. When I cracked the white ones last time they were even white inside. I get a pale egg once in a great while- but I'd never send them to anybody! Sheesh. I don't know what to do.

I don't think I would set them, I might even go as far to ask the seller for a refund, minus shipping.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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What color variety did they come from?

Wheatens! Supposedly Blehm (line). This is the second time this happened to me this month- last time I didn't even set the white ones- I had a pretty full bator and I figured my lav eggs would be better served. When I cracked the white ones last time they were even white inside. I get a pale egg once in a great while- but I'd never send them to anybody! Sheesh. I don't know what to do.

There's some really good thought on this on the link I posted.....

 

[Illia]

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Those are Easter Eggers, not Ameraucanas.

I've thought of selling him there, but going on a 5+ hour drive just to sell one cock, then driving back 5+ hours and spending the money on the ever expensive ferry just to save time. . . .

If my Shamo stag didn't get int fights that caused a couple broken feathers, I'd go. Otherwise, - too much for one cock.

Jeremy - A new color. Coming along really slowly because I'm STILL getting about 5% production from my flock.

 

[tgrlily]

I'm also getting very pale eggs from my wheatens. Two are what I would describe as ice blue (maybe because I live in freezing cold CNY!) the third lays an almost ivory egg. You can't tell it from the Dorking eggs. Needless to say, I've never hatched the strange ivory ones. Since I don't have a wheaten cockerel, I'm trying a project color with them. Hopefully it'll work so egg color change with the next generation will be easy to track. My white pullet lays my most intensely blue egg, so I'd like to assume that the white cockerel also carries the same color. Please correct me if I'm wrong! So should the ice blue egg pullets + the intense blue gene cockerel give the next generation an egg color that is somewhere in between?

 

[Goose and Fig]

Thanks for the link Cloverleaf. I have read that before- I got one of those infamous true white layers they were talking about. I'm still not sure what to do about these eggs though. I just can't believe anybody would send out eggs that look like that- let alone 2 people!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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We did a project with my ivory layer- bred her to an unrelated wheaten roo. Her daughters do lay blue, but a lighter shade.

 

[Noncentzter]

I've got one wheaten girl that is laying an almost white egg and unfortunately, she's the only one laying right now! Nope, I've also got one that is laying a brown egg!

 

[tgrlily]

I'm not going to breed the ivory layer, but I haven't figured out which girl is laying it. Hers get sorted into the eating eggs --- they all taste the same!

 

[SteveH]

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What color variety did they come from?

Wheatens! Supposedly Blehm (line). This is the second time this happened to me this month- last time I didn't even set the white ones- I had a pretty full bator and I figured my lav eggs would be better served. When I cracked the white ones last time they were even white inside. I get a pale egg once in a great while- but I'd never send them to anybody! Sheesh. I don't know what to do.

Since John doesn't offer hatching eggs for sale, IMO you probably don't have Blehm's line. What I am guessing you have is eggs from another's lines, and they may have purchased theirs from John or even someone else who got theirs from John. Big difference in my opinion.
That being said, very pale blue eggs may simply be the lack of any brown tint, an older Ameraucana whose eggs have lightened, or a combination of both. Some encorporate those pale blue layers into their breeding program to reduce greenish appearance................... it's not all bad.

edited to remove stutter

 

[Goose and Fig]

I know that Steve- they are supposedly from their own birds from Blehm's lines. It's one of the few bloodlines I don't have yet and I 've had problems with every line. It's to be expected in any breed- especially a new one. I was just really disappointed to see that color- I would never send out wheaten eggs like that to somebody that paid for them. Never have and never will. You want my white eggs? They're projects and they are free.

But- on a good note- I went back to look at the auction pics. Geez- I have looked at so many lately they are a blur! There were no egg pics. However, the roo in their pics has beautiful clear hackles. I'm hoping I get a decent hatch from these lovely white eggs and maybe do some good with them.

(Thank god I have 20 acres and a chainsaw!

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