Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[cubakid]

You don't want the red veins.

 

[pips&peeps]

I have some beautiful Blue Wheaten roosters from a local, great breeder. As I consider breeding them, I have a couple of questions about standards. I understand that the white fluff at the tail is unavoidable, right? And that it possibly molts out of them. Just double checking about that.

Second, as I look at their chests, they aren't solid blue. One has just one red feather, the second is pretty nicely blue, the other has red veins in the middle of each blue feather. Is any of this red something I should be wary about? Is some of it, like the red veins, something most breeders like to see?

Thanks!

The white fluff is avoidable. It shouldn't be there unless the bird has had some serious feather picking. Then you might consider it.

The fluff is an indicator that the tail angle is not correct. The back and saddle feathers should flow nicely and cover any underfluff. See the old picture of one of my cockerels.




His tail is not in fully yet in this picture and his beard and muffs were not done turning blue either.

Red in the breast is not desireable. If it is just one feather you can let it go, some red in the thigh fluff is allowable.

 

[dak]

The white fluff is avoidable. It shouldn't be there unless the bird has had some serious feather picking. Then you might consider it.

The fluff is an indicator that the tail angle is not correct. The back and saddle feathers should flow nicely and cover any underfluff. See the old picture of one of my cockerels.




His tail is not in fully yet in this picture and his beard and muffs were not done turning blue either.

Red in the breast is not desireable. If it is just one feather you can let it go, some red in the thigh fluff is allowable.

Is the coloring in the hackle, saddle and wingbows supposed to be the same, or is a darker wingbow permissible? (NO I am not taking on another variety

)

Clare

 

[goldfinches]

The white fluff is avoidable. It shouldn't be there unless the bird has had some serious feather picking. Then you might consider it.

The fluff is an indicator that the tail angle is not correct. The back and saddle feathers should flow nicely and cover any underfluff. See the old picture of one of my cockerels.




His tail is not in fully yet in this picture and his beard and muffs were not done turning blue either.

Red in the breast is not desireable. If it is just one feather you can let it go, some red in the thigh fluff is allowable.

Thank you! Now I know what to avoid.

 

[pips&peeps]

The blue wheatens are slightly different than the wheatens.

The standard calls for light orange at the top of the head to golden shading at the bottom of the hackles.

The bows of the wings are lustrous orange-red.

The back is lustrous orange-red and saddle is lustrous golden orange.

On the wheatens the color is:

head is light orange

neck and hackles are light orange

wing bows and shoulders are bright reddish bay

back is lustrous bright red

saddle is lustrous light orange

 

[Chicken Tenders]

Thank you everyone for helping us critique our Wheaten Roosters! Is anyone going to be in CA poultry shows this spring? We'd love to meet the peeps!

 

[dak]

The blue wheatens are slightly different than the wheatens.

The standard calls for light orange at the top of the head to golden shading at the bottom of the hackles.

The bows of the wings are lustrous orange-red.

The back is lustrous orange-red and saddle is lustrous golden orange.

On the wheatens the color is:

head is light orange

neck and hackles are light orange

wing bows and shoulders are bright reddish bay

back is lustrous bright red

saddle is lustrous light orange

Thanks Jean!

 

[Lrkel]

I'm wondering about the single beard gene I've seen discussed here. Will these birds possibly be beardless or have small beards? What age would you know if your birds beards are not going to fill out? My older birds have huge beards and muffs while some that I hatched from a different breeder have muffs but just a little scruff for a beard. They're about 4 months now and I'm hoping they will fill in a lot more.

 

[dak]

I'm wondering about the single beard gene I've seen discussed here. Will these birds possibly be beardless or have small beards? What age would you know if your birds beards are not going to fill out? My older birds have huge beards and muffs while some that I hatched from a different breeder have muffs but just a little scruff for a beard. They're about 4 months now and I'm hoping they will fill in a lot more

Too young to judge that. Wait til 6-7 months. Some seem to be late bloomers in the beard/muff dept.

 

[only1kristenl]

Hey Guys!

I recently was given a rooster and 4 hens, and was told the three whitish hens are Blue Wheaton Ameruacanas, and the rooster is a Blue Wheaton Ameraucana Splash (I know this isn't an excepted color) I was told The roo is a true Ameraucana and has a purebred mother and father, and that he and the hens should produce show quality offspring. I was wondering if you could comment on their coloring and if they adhere to the standard? The brown hen in the 2nd picture lays an olive green egg, so I assume she is a EE.











The bottom egg is the color I'm getting from the blue wheaton hens.