Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Euarto Gullible]

Hello, I had hatched this guy a couple months ago from a local breeder who shows her birds...and it's now pretty evident that he's a roo. I am trying to determine if he's a good enough bird that somebody would want to keep him or if I should just eat him. He is becoming quite beautiful and has a very pleasant personality, but I'm not sure if he has the right coloration to be desirable. If anybody could tell me what his color pattern is called so I can try finding a home for him, I'd be grateful.

 

[jerryse]

Hello, I had hatched this guy a couple months ago from a local breeder who shows her birds...and it's now pretty evident that he's a roo. I am trying to determine if he's a good enough bird that somebody would want to keep him or if I should just eat him. He is becoming quite beautiful and has a very pleasant personality, but I'm not sure if he has the right coloration to be desirable. If anybody could tell me what his color pattern is called so I can try finding a home for him, I'd be grateful.

Eat him.He appears to be a mix of silver and wheaten color patterns.The white beard gives away the wheaten heritage.It will turn black in time but he will have red shoulders.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I finally got around to uploading pics of my black AM pair. they arent very good quality pics. And while I was trying to pics of the cockerel he got loose. I chased all around my barn in really tall weeds I need to cut down, through my yar, into a storage room in my barn and corned him, and caught him. In the pic of me holding him he is not very happy because I had just caught him. He likes to hold his neck feathers up at me when I hold him, but I was shocked that he didnt in the pic. They are somewhere between 4-6 months old, so they are still young. And at first I couldnt get the pullet to hold her tail up in the pic and then when I did get her to she layed down. And she isnt in a very natural pose becuase I set her on a cage in a tempoaray pen to take pics and she was all but thrilled. Anyways any opinons on these pics (i will try to get more). I dont know exactly what lines these came from. And dont hold back if they dont look good, you wont hurt my feelings, I would just like some more opinions. thanks!

 

[Euarto Gullible]

Eat him.He appears to be a mix of silver and wheaten color patterns.The white beard gives away the wheaten heritage.It will turn black in time but he will have red shoulders.

Thank you for the info. I will eat him.

 

[kara1015]

Blue wheaten... cockerel?

 

[jeremy]

Yup.

 

[Angelicisi]

Definitely a roo. Not sure on coloring. The roos throw me off with wheatan coloring still. Lol

Blue wheaten... cockerel?

 

[samouw]

Splash Wheaten will not be possible with your current flock - you are absolutely correct. I saw this graphic on a FB list the other day, and it is very helpful to sort out B/B/S genetics.

This is a very helpful chart! To clear up some confusion on my part, could someone answer a few genetics questions for me? I am more used to color genetics in dogs and horses and haven't quite grasped all the additional factors in chickens. So, if you'll bear with me for a second, I'm going to try to put this in genetic terms and see if I'm getting it. This is sort of stream of consciousness, so forgive my typos, errors, and wrong conclusions.

Since the color "blue" in dogs is a dilute, I'm guessing it is here too? So a blue wheaten (I'm using wheatens, since that is what I have, but I'm guessing this would also apply to B/B/S), could have a genetic code of BB (where B=dominant black) and an additional factor of "dd" (where "D" equals dominant non-dilute and "d" equals recessive dilute). If this is true, then the following combinations would have the following colors:

BB DD - black, could not produce blue
BB Dd - also black, but could produce blue if bred to another Dd or dd
BB dd - blue, could produce black, blue, or ...splash?

Hmmm, that won't work - what would splash be? So, perhaps...perhaps I don't have this at all. LOL - anyone can help?

 

[ChickNmamma]

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It is my understanding that chickens are MUCH worse than dogs.. or other animals. They do have a base color - 5 of them,and each bird carries two copies - so they can be half one and half another... and then they have dilutes and modifiers.. here - go play!

http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html

Blue is an incomplete Dominant, bl+/bl+ = no copy (black if otherwise the bird is black), Bl/bl+ = Blue (same), and Bl/Bl = Splash (same). Blue is not supposed to effect red - so any red would stay red (mostly).. A really nice Blue would be E/E (extended black) Pg/Pg (laced) S/S (Gold) [or s+/s+ (Silver)] Bl/bl+ (Blue) (see, more to list

).. but there are modifiers.. hidden, recessives and incomplete dominants.. This is not for Wheaten birds. I don't know what they need, I don't think its just a simple base change to E^Wh/E^Wh

 

[alibra]

Is this baby a blue or splash? I believe it's an Ameraucana... Any guess on the sex, either? I thought the chick would darken as it grew up but it didn't! My blue babies are so much darker!