Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[TK Poultry]

Well they are taking forever to hatch....

I've personally never had an Ameraucana with feathered shanks, or a beardless/muffless one. I was given a cull cockerel when I first started with Ameraucanas he was lavender and had a single comb but that was it. This makes be wonder if we are inbreeding to get these traits?

 

[pips&peeps]

When I hatched Geoffrey three years ago, one of his siblings ended up having one feather on the front of his leg. I did some test hatches with him and about half of the chicks had stubs, so he is a show bird only now. I haven't had any more with the stubs since those test hatches that I know of, because no one has told me otherwise.

I did hatch what looks like to be a recessive white yesterday from my silver project pen...... I will be toe punching it to see what it grows out to be.

All these birds are pretty much related because they come from the few breeders out there that stick to it and keep on breeding. I just think it has been a numbers game and now that we have so many people breeding and collectively together, we are seeing the anomalies more often because they are reported more.

I do not know if any feather shanked birds were used to develop any of the current varieties of ameraucana we have today. That would be a good question to post over at the ABC.

 

[Illia]

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Pretty sure they're still going on now, just not mentioned as often. I never mentioned mine until it was clearly a white bird, not a splash wheaten. Now is when people's purchased eggs hatch, or hatched out and are just developing most of their feathers, so people are probably still questioning "splash? white? light blue?"

Remember, that trait was recessive. If people really are actually getting rid of it this year vs last year, they'd be doing some SERIOUS flock reduction.

 

[ca]

I got myself some black ameraucanas!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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I wouldn't have a clue? I'm just hopeing that the offspring from these babies don't have those traits!

 

[goddardd]

Would it be possible for someone to kindly
PM me and tell me how I post a picture here from
my iPhone? I recently hatched my first
wheaten/blue wheaten chicks. I have a beautiful
chick that seems to be growing in an unusual blue
pattern. I would like to post a picture of him
so others can tell me if he is growing out properly.
He's my favorite. The most gentle bird I have
ever had.
Diane

 

[roysnider]

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We have lots of purebred Ameraucana chickens for sale. Our Daughter shows Ameraucana chickens at Poultry Shows and is taking our Rooster this weekend to the Little Rock show. We incubated our Ameraucana eggs this year to get her show stock. We have chicks that are anywhere from 8 weeks old to 3 weeks old. We have a few Ameraucana eggs in an incubator at the school that are supposed to start hatching on Thursday or Friday of this week. Our Show stock comes from Paul Smith in TX. Our Ameraucanas are Wheaten and Blue Wheaten. We have found that this breed is so gentle. Our rooster has never been mean towards us at all. I have other breeds where the roosters have attacked me while trying to feed them. I'll post some pics of our Ameraucanas soon. The sun has finally come our here and no more rain for 2 days so now we can go out and take pictures.

 

[roysnider]

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Wow, we just sold some Ameraucana purebred 6 wk or so old chickens to someone who is using them for backyard chickens. They did not have their beard or muffs yet. Also, one of them was born in Jan and hated to let her go but she had not gotten a beard. Wanted to use her for showing in the fall. We got the parents (rooster and 2 hens) from Paul Smith in late summer 2010. We incubated the eggs this winter/spring and have lots of chicks. We just thought the chicks would get their beards as they mature. Do you suppose that this may be the case or may be the heterozygous gene? If so, that's bad.

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

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Congrats Dianne !

Yes they are the most sweet birds ever.

Just My Opnion
Denise

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Wow, we just sold some Ameraucana purebred 6 wk or so old chickens to someone who is using them for backyard chickens. They did not have their beard or muffs yet. Also, one of them was born in Jan and hated to let her go but she had not gotten a beard. Wanted to use her for showing in the fall. We got the parents (rooster and 2 hens) from Paul Smith in late summer 2010. We incubated the eggs this winter/spring and have lots of chicks. We just thought the chicks would get their beards as they mature. Do you suppose that this may be the case or may be the heterozygous gene? If so, that's bad.

Most chicks in the 6 week range don't have their beards/muffs. I have found it to be a rare bird that has them during the awkward adolescent stage. I wait until they are much more mature before I cull for beards/muffs.