Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[samouw]

Ok! Don't tell anyone! I have to say the skinny beautiful! Big Ameraucana people make me a little nervous! It's like you know you are going to look like a idiot! Just like when I talked on the phone with Paul! I was so nervous! He was so nice though! I thought we could be friends. If you lived next door I would drive you crazy with all my questions! And he would be like

I know exactly what you mean! First time I talked to THE Jean Ribbeck - the creator of my foundation line of wheatens/blue wheatens - I was shaking in my boots! Didn't keep me from talking though. Hubby says he doesn't know anything that will keep me from talking.

 

[marchick]

I know exactly what you mean! First time I talked to THE Jean Ribbeck - the creator of my foundation line of wheatens/blue wheatens - I was shaking in my boots! Didn't keep me from talking though. Hubby says he doesn't know anything that will keep me from talking.

You....Know what I mean!!!!!

rofl

 

[marchick]

I know exactly what you mean! First time I talked to THE Jean Ribbeck - the creator of my foundation line of wheatens/blue wheatens - I was shaking in my boots! Didn't keep me from talking though. Hubby says he doesn't know anything that will keep me from talking.

Paul and I talked for like an hour! No kidding! It was Awsome! Wheaten/Blue Wheatens are next on my list of wants! My husband has been working on a pen for my giant bunnies and It is looking like a Wheaten/Blue Wheaten pen!

 

[Miss Ameraucana]

The gene that creates blues and splash is a dilution gene - it "thins down" the color black so you get gray. It is actually a dominant gene - so if even one copy is present, then the black gets diluted to gray - or blue, in chicken terms. If two copies are present, then it is a double dose of dilution and you get the spotty effect we call splash.

Think of a can of black can of paint - add one cup of water and you get gray.  Add more water and the colors keeps getting lighter - however, with chickens, instead of just getting all over lighter, there seems to be black, or blue, splotches that just don't want to give in.

Interesting! Thanks so much
Susan! I will never learn all of this in this lifetime but hopefully some of it will sink in!

Ok!  Don't tell anyone! I have to say the skinny beautiful! Big Ameraucana people make me a little nervous! It's like you know you are going to look like a idiot! Just like when I talked on the phone with Paul! I was so nervous! He was so nice though! I thought we could be friends. If you lived next door I would drive you crazy with all my questions! And he would be like

I embarrass myself all the time lol! But if I don't ask I won't learn a thing!

 

[samouw]

Interesting! Thanks so much
Susan! I will never learn all of this in this lifetime but hopefully some of it will sink in!

I embarrass myself all the time lol! But if I don't ask I won't learn a thing!

Sure you will! I've only been breeding chickens since 2009...Ameraucans since 2011!

 

[marchick]

Interesting! Thanks so much
Susan! I will never learn all of this in this lifetime but hopefully some of it will sink in!

I embarrass myself all the time lol! But if I don't ask I won't learn a thing!

You have never posted on the wrong thread before! I have one up on you! lol

Sure you will! I've only been breeding chickens since 2009...Ameraucans since 2011!

Wow! It will take me a lot longer! I am 46 so I won't live long enough to learn that much!!! Even if I lived to be 110 years old!

 

[Miss Ameraucana]

Sure you will!  I've only been breeding chickens since 2009...Ameraucans since 2011!

Wow!! That's awesome! Maybe there's hope for me yet! Lol

 

[Miss Ameraucana]

 You have never posted on the wrong thread before! I have one up on you! lol


Wow! It will take me a lot longer! I am 46 so I won't live long enough to learn that much!!! Even if I lived to be 110 years old!

You are so funny!
Who could not love you!?

 

[Miss Ameraucana]

 You have never posted on the wrong thread before! I have one up on you! lol


Wow! It will take me a lot longer! I am 46 so I won't live long enough to learn that much!!! Even if I lived to be 110 years old!

Hmm..so that means the recessive gene posts were clear as mud right?
Your simply great cluck cluck!! Lol! You KNOW I'm teasing

 

[marchick]

Hmm..so that means the recessive gene posts were clear as mud right?
Your simply great cluck cluck!! Lol! You KNOW I'm teasing

I did get it!!! There is hope for me yet! But, Don't ask me to explain it! lol