Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[TaraBellaBirds]

I have a question as to the sex of this Black Ameraucana. I am hoping that I might have a cockerel to go with my other two hens. They are 18 wks old. My other cockerels are much more developed than this.




The one in question is in the back. The front one is one of the hens.



This is the best comb picture I could get after chasing it around and getting many blurred images.


Anxiously awaiting your comments. I suspect you are going to tell me that yes, in fact, I have three hens.



While not as clear, this one gives a better view of the color of its comb.

Pullet X2

 

[MrsBachbach]

I have a question as to the sex of this Black Ameraucana. I am hoping that I might have a cockerel to go with my other two hens. They are 18 wks old. My other cockerels are much more developed than this. The one in question is in the back. The front one is one of the hens. This is the best comb picture I could get after chasing it around and getting many blurred images. Anxiously awaiting your comments. I suspect you are going to tell me that yes, in fact, I have three hens. While not as clear, this one gives a better view of the color of its comb.

Others are saying pullet, but remember this. I am saying cockeral. Is going to mature slowly and have a small comb. I am basing this off that last picture of comb and the tail. How old is it and did you check for saddle feathers yet?

 

[MrsBachbach]

My splash were a blue white, not yellow.  My lavender were just a shade off from the splash, but still with the white cast.  My blues and blacks were easily identifiable.  My wheatens were yellow and almost gold.  The golder one, and yeah, maybe that's not a word, was the female that I am still trying to decide if she is wheaten, blue wheaten or splash wheaten.  She is beginning to get some darker feathers, I think, so she may turn out to be a blue wheaten.  I will not be disappointed if she is a wheaten cause then I could have more of both.  

I have hatched a good deal of splash and they hatch out yellow. Very hard to tell them from the wheaten group except for the small color that appears in the wheaten wing feathers. Once in my memory I did hatch out a splash with the blue white ghost color.

Oh, edited to add the leg color. Wheaten leg color usually differs from splash leg color.

 

[Regin]

Murphy's Law of Cockerals: If there is any way it could possibly be a cockeral, it is. Unless you need a cockeral, then its not.

 

[speckledhen]

Murphy's Law of Cockerals: If there is any way it could possibly be a cockeral, it is. Unless you need a cockeral, then its not.

X 1000

 

[dstokely]

Others are saying pullet, but remember this. I am saying cockeral. Is going to mature slowly and have a small comb. I am basing this off that last picture of comb and the tail. How old is it and did you check for saddle feathers yet?

You are going to have to help me here. Where are the saddle feathers? I will try to get another picture tomorrow, but the blacks and blues are much wilder than the others. These chicks are 18 wks old. The Blues, Blue Wheaten and Lavender are clearly distinguishable as cockerels.

 

[dstokely]

I have hatched a good deal of splash and they hatch out yellow. Very hard to tell them from the wheaten group except for the small color that appears in the wheaten wing feathers. Once in my memory I did hatch out a splash with the blue white ghost color.

I followed that posting with a comment about my poor memory when I went back and looked at a picture I had posted when they were a week old. One was the color I remembered, but the other two were the color you are saying. Oops!

 

[MrsBachbach]

Maybe it was the product of a Blue Wheaten and a Splash Wheaten?  I just recently found out there was a splash wheaten and that it was different from the splash that is from the BBS group.
In looking at the ABC board, I saw that the silver babies have the chipmunk coloration which I thought could only be EE.  Always more to learn.

Even though there is no such color that is a good explaination of why people may call it so.

 

[speckledhen]

You are going to have to help me here. Where are the saddle feathers? I will try to get another picture tomorrow, but the blacks and blues are much wilder than the others. These chicks are 18 wks old. The Blues, Blue Wheaten and Lavender are clearly distinguishable as cockerels.

The circle shows the pointy, skinny shiny fringe of male saddle feathers. Pullets/hens do not have those.

 

[dstokely]

Murphy's Law of Cockerals: If there is any way it could possibly be a cockeral, it is. Unless you need a cockeral, then its not.

I do need one and I am afraid it may not be. Mrs BachBach has given me some hope. Will examine it tomorrow.