Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

After reading a ton of threads I am now Ameraucana paranoid.

My 8 day old now (bought at 3 days) were sold to be as Black/Splash Amerauacanas. Now I know sexing is almost impossible at this stage but feel like I have at least 3 possible hens and 2 roos.


My main concern I guess is if they are Ameraucanas or is this something I have to wait to find out after they feather/lay?

Betsy


Gertrude/Gertie


Clementine


Maggie (I feel like this bad boy is a roo, he's the boss)



Ruby (this one may be a roo boss #2)

I read on this forum or the easter egger sexing forum that at a week old, you could look at their tails to tell boys from girls. The girls would have little feathers for a tail and the boys would not. I tried that on my 15 and using that logic, determined I had 6 roos and 9 girls. Turned out, I actually had only 5 roos and 10 girls...they are 31wks old now. Looking at your pictures, I can only see 2 where I can see tails/no tails. I would say that Maggie is a roo and that Gertrude is a she. I cannot see the tails on Betsy, Ruby or Clementine. By the way, this is not scientific by any means.
 
Quick question: my black roo has a slight bit of gold leakage. When he goes through his first molt, will this get cleared up or is it possible that it will get worse? Thanks.
 
I looked at that page…they go directly from young chick to adult, and the adult photo is very dark so I could not make out the pattern. I have been searching for better pictures, but no luck. As President of the ABC, you may want to suggest that as worthy project for your website.

Thanks for your time to comment. I will remove myself from the Ameraucana thread immediately if not sooner…lol!
 
The birds stay the basically the same color from chick to adult except for the hackle, saddle and lacing color coming in as they mature.

I don't understand your comment about the photos being dark. They are posted below and I can see them just fine.

I also don't understand your attitude.

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Perhaps you can see just fine because you know what you are looking for. I see a very dark bird body with light reflecting off the feathers. I do not see any pattern in the feathers. I do see gold color in the feathers around the head and neck, but it seems mottled with black, like a splash rather than penciling or lacing.

My attitude was explained fully in a PM, but since you brought it up I will just say here in reponse that when you are telling a newbee who believes she does have a "true" Ameracauna that she, in fact does not, you could be tactful about it. Your response came like a slap on the face, especially since I had looked at the club website, this thread, and everything of authority I could find on the internet.

Perhaps the root of the problem lies in the APA holding the breed standards hostage. I cannot afford $54 for a full book just to read about one breed of chicken. Not your fault of course (and kudos for getting permission to at least post a portion on the club website), but another contributing factor is that your club website does not show juvenile stage of growth (in addition to my above comment on the specific photo you posted). Pullets, to me, just look like a mess. You could consider adding pullet stage as well as posting close ups of feathers from the various parts of the body that are perfect and that are faulted for comparison to alleviate confusion and help protect those super double secret breed standards ;)
 
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