Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[jajeanpierre]

That color is not recognized so technically some will say it is an EE....However it is a very interesting new color.

This will help you with some of your answers and is a great article written by Vicki Thompson and talks about myths and the lumping of everything into the big bowl of EE dome.

Please read and form your own opinion. Knowledge is a good thing!

http://ameraucana.org/forum/index.php?a=topic&t=957

Where on the web site is Vicki Thompson's article? The link just goes to the home page for forums.

Thanks.

 

[delisha]

Quote: Post her name in the search box and it should come up..sorry if you are not a member it might not have come up to the right page.

http://ameraucana.org/forum/index.php?topic=957.msg5914#msg5914

 

[ChickNanny13]

Ameraucana or Easter Egger? She got slate colored legs, underside yellowish/white... Pullet or Cockerel?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

That is an easter egger pullet. BTW I love her coloring

 

[Quechicks]

Question for serious breeders:

In my experience with wheaten old english game bantams, it was always best to have a male and female line. Has anyone tried this with Ameraucanas? If not, why? I have been talking with another breeder and brought this up..... Just wanted to know if anyone has had success with it.

I notice a lot of black shafting in male hackles, and too much wheat stippling in female tails with washed out or uneven wheat throughout the body..... I think this may be fixed by isolating the problems and focusing specifically on male and female lines.

I wouldn't qualifiy myself "seripus breeder" yet but I will do this with my Chantecler ( I'm in F1 so next year I will be able to seperate)...i will do that with my silkies and I don't see whynit with amerau....except that you will need several lines for each colors you will breed....so a lot of space needed or a good follow up on your birds so you will know wich ones to put in the breeding pen.

 

[speckledhen]

I snapped some photos of my 6 year old black Ameraucana, Gypsy, easily the most beautiful older hen in my flocks. I adore this hen-she was my late crippled BR rooster, Zane's best friend. Such a love, she is. And she does still lay in spurts-she'll go several weeks, then stop for a couple months, then start up again. She comes from Cree Farms lines on the sire's side (grandsire was a show champion) and a breeder that I think was called Rivergait Farms on her mother's side.




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[lonnyandrinda]

Gypsy is beautiful! Thanks for sharing her pics! Love her tail especially- angle, openness, etc!

 

[speckledhen]

Thank you. She's an angel. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth when she passes on. Her mother was blue, Charlotte. She died suddenly at just over 4 years old, no idea why.

 

[delisha]

What a picture of health in your birds speckledhen..she is beautiful and does not show her age at all..such beautiful feather quality.

 

[speckledhen]

What a picture of health in your birds speckledhen..she is beautiful and does not show her age at all..such beautiful feather quality.

Thank you so much! That's very sweet of you to say. I wish they were all as gorgeous as Gypsy at her age. I have two other Ameraucanas left, half sisters Snow and Nora, who are just over 5 years old. They are full Cree lines, but they were in recent molts so no pics of them right now.