Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Goose and Fig]

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Keep 2. The one with the good comb and another
with good color/type.

 

[Christie Rhae]

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I love this website and found it very informative. At the bottom of the page is the Wheaton "rules".
http://www.signaturefeathers.com/wheaten/wheaten.html

 

[Goose and Fig]

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I love this website and found it very informative. At the bottom of the page is the Wheaton "rules".
http://www.signaturefeathers.com/wheaten/wheaten.html

That's Peachick's site. She has lovely wheatEns.

 

[Christie Rhae]

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I love this website and found it very informative. At the bottom of the page is the Wheaton "rules".
http://www.signaturefeathers.com/wheaten/wheaten.html

That's Peachick's site. She has lovely wheatEns.

I know I love her birds! I drool over her wheatons and solid blue marans.

. Lol!

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

Thanks a bunch HappyMtn

 

[Jferlisi]

Hi everyone. I have a pretty black amer roo he's 18 months and i just got a lavender amer she is 2 months and im about to get a blue amer she is 2 months also. So im wondering when they get of breeding age what colors will they throw? I would love to get more lavenders but i cant afforded to buy them as im on a tight budget as it is, everything extra goes to my chickens as it is or my savings for my family camping trip. So i was wondering what colors make lavender? Thanks for the help.

 

[EweSheep]

My black Amerc hen is broody and meaner than a snake. Left me with two beak bruises on my wrist. That little *%$#@ !!! I did not expect her to be broody but she is in a mess right now. Other chickens tried to come on top of her to lay eggs and she broke a few....should I clean her up? Or just throw in some more sawdust or straw (dried grass) in there for her? Ugh! I am not sure if she is proven broody but she is determined.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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You will get all "split to lavender"- either visually blue or black, but if you breed the male offspring back to your lave hen you will get more lavenders. It isn't really recommended to make splits with blue(but nobody is going to arrest you), but it IS a good thing to breed lavs to black as it improvess feather quality, type and egg color.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Lavender is recessive, so you have to have 2 visually lavender parents for the chicks to be visually lavender. What you will get with your trio:

black roo x blue hen = 50% black, 50% lavender

black roo x lavender hen = 100% black/lavender splits, meaning all the chicks will be visually black, but carry the lavender gene. If you kept a cockerel from this breeding and bred him back to his mother, you would have 50% black/lavender splits and 50% visually lavender chicks.

IF you hatch from both hens, you will want to know whose egg is whose so you know which black chicks are true black and which are splits.

In my female black/lavender splits, there is a lack of the beetle green sheen, but the males still have it, so it's not a 100% tip off.

Congrats on your new birds, by the way!!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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You will get all "split to lavender"- either visually blue or black, but if you breed the male offspring back to your lave hen you will get more lavenders. It isn't really recommended to make splits with blue(but nobody is going to arrest you), but it IS a good thing to breed lavs to black as it improvess feather quality, type and egg color.

LOL you beat me to it!