Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[jfishdr]

Thank you. That helps a lot. I misunderstood initially so I had them all together and am not sure who is who now. For sure I have 4 chocolates and 6 labeled choc hatched so the 2 blues are from the black eggs. Then that means the other blacks 2 of them are split to chocolate! I'm hoping for a good black rooster and use him this spring but he could be black or black/chocolate. I'll use any hens I get, black or chocolate and will either get more splits or black or some chocolate. If I get any chocolate roosters next spring then my boy will be split.

 

[pips&peeps]

Thank you. That helps a lot. I misunderstood initially so I had them all together and am not sure who is who now. For sure I have 4 chocolates and 6 labeled choc hatched so the 2 blues are from the black eggs. Then that means the other blacks 2 of them are split to chocolate! I'm hoping for a good black rooster and use him this spring but he could be black or black/chocolate. I'll use any hens I get, black or chocolate and will either get more splits or black or some chocolate. If I get any chocolate roosters next spring then my boy will be split.

If you have a black female, it will be black, only the males can be split.

Make sure and look at the type before you use any black females though in case they came from the chocolate pen, the type will probably be way off. Use it as a layer or pet.

 

[familypendragon]

If you have a black female, it will be black, only the males can be split.

Make sure and look at the type before you use any black females though in case they came from the chocolate pen, the type will probably be way off.  Use it as a layer or pet.

Whoa! This is the first time I've ever heard that - so in other words the black/lavender "split" pullet I bought (who also has no beard or muffs to speak of so won't be used for breeding anyway) isn't a split and can not be a split? So if you hatch a lavender/black cross only the males get the lavender gene?

 

[DMRippy]

If you have a black female, it will be black, only the males can be split.

Make sure and look at the type before you use any black females though in case they came from the chocolate pen, the type will probably be way off.  Use it as a layer or pet.

Whoa! This is the first time I've ever heard that - so in other words the black/lavender "split" pullet I bought (who also has no beard or muffs to speak of so won't be used for breeding anyway) isn't a split and can not be a split? So if you hatch a lavender/black cross only the males get the lavender gene?

chicks TOTALLY different! lavender splits can be male or female.choc is a sex linked gene so some different rules. choc roos have to have 2 copies of choc to express pullets will express with only one copy and that's all they can have ever is one copy.

lav to express has to have 2 copies to male or female.

 

[Rorporp23]

At what age do any of your girls start laying?

 

[pips&peeps]

At what age do any of your girls start laying?

Generally between 24 and 27 weeks. For late summer hatches you will need supplemental light or generally wait until spring.

How are they looking? Have any pics?

 

[mstricer]

Jean you doing any more auctions. I have a stupid rat I've been trimg to catch and it stole a lot of my chicks before I knew it. I still have 6 babies I'm guarding closely, locking the mother hen up in a secure brooder house.

 

[pips&peeps]

both the bantam and LF pens have slowed way up, I have molting chickens left and right. It will be a bit before there are more available.

 

[mstricer]

Okay I will be watching

 

[chickee]

both the bantam and LF pens have slowed way up, I have molting chickens left and right. It will be a bit before there are more available.

Did the wheaten rooster get a turn in the breeding pen? If so, how do the chicks look? His blue wheaten grandson I kept for breeding is looking good, besides a bit of a low tail set, but I think he is holding it that way because he the low man right now in with my GCM rooster who is the boss