Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[samouw]

I have been gone and don't know whats going on!!!

that's how I felt when I came back and there were 33 unread messages!

 

[scflock]

I would. I'd just make sure I kept a record and tagged those chicks so I'd know they were carrying the recessive white.  That seems to be hidden away in quite a few of the Ameraucana gene pools.

Maybe it's just me, but that sounds like a way to make a cull pen of beautiful birds. Would that not be a trait to try and cull away from?

 

[marchick]

Maybe it's just me, but that sounds like a way to make a cull pen of beautiful birds. Would that not be a trait to try and cull away from?

I think I need to check those chicks again maybe its only from the one pen.One chick was from one pen.Three where from a different pen.

 

[marchick]

I would. I'd just make sure I kept a record and tagged those chicks so I'd know they were carrying the recessive white. That seems to be hidden away in quite a few of the Ameraucana gene pools.

They where tagged when I got them. I will keep an eye on them and time will tell! Maybe I am just crazy and they are splash but they look white!

 

[samouw]

Maybe it's just me, but that sounds like a way to make a cull pen of beautiful birds. Would that not be a trait to try and cull away from?

Well, yes and no. It would depend on what you want. If you want a nice line of whites, starting with blacks carrying the recessive white gene is the way to go. Most of the whites I've seen - at least in this area - did not have the type of a good black.

I would not suggest the same thing with the lavenders - there are other issues with the lavenders - feather quality, for one, that you'd be introducing into your blacks and that would definitely go into the cull pen. Of course, people like Jerry, who've been doing this since the beginning of Ameraucanas, are experts at what to expect.

 

[jerryse]

Maybe it's just me, but that sounds like a way to make a cull pen of beautiful birds. Would that not be a trait to try and cull away from?

I used recessive in all my bantam color projects in the early days . The whites were my best type at the time . I always liked getting the occasional white pop up . I always added them to the white flock . This kept the whites vigor and egg laying up . I never consider anything carrying recessive white a cull . These pop ups have saved the white variety several times . My current bantam white traces back to Jerry DeSchmidt's blacks . These popped up . Have been the blacks since I used white to create the black bantams . I no longer had white . I was pleased to get back into them . Thought they my line was lost .

 

[jerryse]

Well, yes and no. It would depend on what you want. If you want a nice line of whites, starting with blacks carrying the recessive white gene is the way to go. Most of the whites I've seen - at least in this area - did not have the type of a good black.

I would not suggest the same thing with the lavenders - there are other issues with the lavenders - feather quality, for one, that you'd be introducing into your blacks and that would definitely go into the cull pen. Of course, people like Jerry, who've been doing this since the beginning of Ameraucanas, are experts at what to expect.

Do not worry about the lavender feather quality causing problems in black . It is the 2 copies of lavender that cause this . I have seen no issues with feathers in splits .

 

[samouw]

Do not worry about the lavender feather quality causing problems in black . It is the 2 copies of lavender that cause this . I have seen no issues with feathers in splits .

Hmm, hadn't heard that. Good to know.

 

[marchick]

Well I checked again and the two chicks in question for being white are from two different pens. So if they are both white and named Betty and Billy we will be in good shape!!!

 

[bruceha2000]

Ok, I'll give in (I'm soooo easy!). It is an old military term. Basically, anyone that was out of site of the flagpole on his "home" base, was considered an expert. It was also used as a reference to marriage for some "player" types. They were only married as long as they were in sight of that same flagpole.

And apparently "expert" was a bit of a derogatory label. Kind of like in the big corporate world where "I'm from corporate and I'm here to help" would generally elicit a lot of

Don't know anything about the local situation but they'll "fix it".