Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[pips&peeps]

Hope it's ok for me to join in here. I just hatched my first ameraucana or at lest that is what i bought them as. I had 3eggs and only one has hatched. But I had 13 bantam Cochin hatch a week or so earlier. we have named it Tiny

Best way to find out what color or if it is a true ameraucana is to find out who you got the eggs from.

 

[delder2009]

Best way to find out what color or if it is a true ameraucana is to find out who you got the eggs from.

I was told blue splash wheaten but haven't heard of this color before. And from what I've been told here that's not a color. Thank you

 

[RoosterLew]

Quote: That is correct, "Blue Splash Wheaten" is not a color, however...
I was recently corrected that many people refer to Splash Wheatens as "Blue Splash Wheaten"...So I would guess that is what you have. Down color looks close for that, though most I have seen do not have quite that much blue color to them when that young, and are a bit more "gold" than "yellow"... that's why I suggested possibly Lavendar.
In the next couple of weeks as the chick feathers in you will be able to get a better idea as the Wheaten, Blue Wheaten & Splash Wheatens feathers come in differently. You will be able to tell sex and Variety very soon.
It is the same genetics as BBS, So I think sometimes when people use the combined term "Blue Splash" maybe they mean that it is from Blue to Splash breeding, meaning you can get either from the hatch?

 

[delder2009]

That is correct, "Blue Splash Wheaten" is not a color, however...

I was recently corrected that many people refer to Splash Wheatens as "Blue Splash Wheaten"...So I would guess that is what you have. Down color looks close for that, though most I have seen do not have quite that much blue color to them when that young, and are a bit more "gold" than "yellow"... that's why I suggested possibly Lavendar.
In the next couple of weeks as the chick feathers in you will be able to get a better idea as the Wheaten, Blue Wheaten & Splash Wheatens feathers come in differently. You will be able to tell sex and Variety very soon.
It is the same genetics as BBS, So I think sometimes when people use the combined term "Blue Splash" maybe they mean that it is from Blue to Splash breeding, meaning you can get either from the hatch?

thank you

 

[dstokely]

That is correct, "Blue Splash Wheaten" is not a color, however...
I was recently corrected that many people refer to Splash Wheatens as "Blue Splash Wheaten"...So I would guess that is what you have. Down color looks close for that, though most I have seen do not have quite that much blue color to them when that young, and are a bit more "gold" than "yellow"... that's why I suggested possibly Lavendar.
In the next couple of weeks as the chick feathers in you will be able to get a better idea as the Wheaten, Blue Wheaten & Splash Wheatens feathers come in differently. You will be able to tell sex and Variety very soon.
It is the same genetics as BBS, So I think sometimes when people use the combined term "Blue Splash" maybe they mean that it is from Blue to Splash breeding, meaning you can get either from the hatch?

I am still trying to figure out my wheaten/blue wheaten/splash wheaten hen. She is 18 wks old, and when I decide she is one, then I change my mind, or I see a feather that I had not seen before. I guess the best way to find out is to take some pictures and put them on here. My lavenders were a light grey blue so I had no trouble identifying them. The ones I had trouble with were the 3 blue splashes and the 2 wheatens.

 

[dstokely]

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Can anyone critique my little pullet and cockerel for me? They were hatched from some eggs that I got from eBay that were purported to be Ameraucana, so of course I expect that they might be EEs. They are around 19 weeks old. Thanks!

Are they this light color, or is this just the picture? They look blue, but no lacing and faded out? The legs look the right color to this untrained eye.

 

[speckledhen]

The hen pictured does appear to be a Blue Ameraucana. There are varying degrees of blue as well as lacing. Usually, a bird that comes from a blue x splash mating will have less lacing than blues that come from a black x blue mating, so you may get be light, medium or darker blues, depending on what the parents are.

Both this hen and the next one came from a black male over blue female. The second has more visible lacing and is darker blue than the first.

 

[samouw]

I am looking for a nice wheaten or blue wheaten Ameraucana cockerel. I've emailed a couple of breeders listed on the Am Breeder's site (of which I'm also a member), but just thought someone might be on here that might have something. I am in Aiken, SC, but willing to travel within reason.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Hello everyone. Is this an EE or Ameracuana? She is a bantam. Sorry for bad pic, the other one wouldn't upload.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Peep-Chicken]

She's the silver on the left.

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