Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[scflock]

Ok Jerry, Susan, or anyone else that wants to weigh in:
Oz sent me a picture last night, and maybe he will post it here. One of the chicks I sold him has what appears to be a slipped tendon. It was fine for two weeks, and that just popped up yesterday. I have seen them hatch that way, but have never seen it show up at two weeks. When they hatch like that, that's a cull for me. I'm hoping it's an injury, not genetic. It's one of the black rooster's chicks

I'm already having fertility issues with him, and if he is passing down genetic issues that beautiful boy is going to become a cull. I need a black or blue in my program, and my other rooster is splash, so Johnny's pen was set up for a black rooster. The blue hens are too light for me to put another blue rooster over them, unless I do it to get a black cockerel from him. I have a blue rooster that is gorgeous, has the best type of the 3, but was relegated to an OE pen because of a little rusty leakage on his left shoulder. Fertility is NOT a problem for him. He was the alpha from the beginning.
Am I being overly concerned about the black? Should I see if his fertility improves, then watch those chicks as they grow, or should I put the big leaky blue in that pen?

 

[marchick]

I have learned in the past year that you always need a new pen

I want Wheaten/ Blue Wheaten also!!!! lol My husband says no more pens! That was after the first one!

 

[scflock]

I want Wheaten/ Blue Wheaten also!!!! lol My husband says no more pens! That was after the first one!

I say that every year. Built two more this year, and that blue copper marans is making me build another this summer

I'm up to 10 now, with three large brooders

 

[junebuggena]

So take that up one breeding please! If recessive white instead of recessive lavender on the chart! it would be 50% Ii correct? So the parents of my chicks would be Ii x Ii ? Then 25% of chicks would be II, 50% would be Ii,25% would be ii and thats what I have? lol Have you given up on me yet!!!

Both recessive white and Lavender work the same way. First generation breeding, when crossed with black results in 100% splits (carrying a single copy of the gene, but not expressing it). Taking those split chicks and breeding back to the recessive white parent will produce 50% recessive white and 50% splits.

 

[marchick]

Both recessive white and Lavender work the same way. First generation breeding, when crossed with black results in 100% splits (carrying a single copy of the gene, but not expressing it). Taking those split chicks and breeding back to the recessive white parent will produce 50% recessive white and 50% splits.

Ok Thank you! I hope I get a pair and won't have to breed back!

 

[marchick]

I say that every year. Built two more this year, and that blue copper marans is making me build another this summer

I'm up to 10 now, with three large brooders

Wow! That is a lot of pens to clean!!!! I see such beautiful birds and I can't help myself! I want that one and that one oh and that one!!!

From now on I need a warning when anyone shows pictures of beautiful birds! So I can close my eyes!!!

 

[scflock]

Susan, Jerry, or anyone else that wants to take a shot:
Ravyn and I are comparing pictures of our black roosters on my thread. There are a few side by side pics, and we are noting the differences we see, but I would be curious to see what someone with more experience thinks.

BTW: I don't recommend going back and reading the rest of the thread to see what it is about

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1050897/french-frogs/26530#post_16635764

 

[jerryse]

Susan, Jerry, or anyone else that wants to take a shot:
Ravyn and I are comparing pictures of our black roosters on my thread. There are a few side by side pics, and we are noting the differences we see, but I would be curious to see what someone with more experience thinks.

BTW: I don't recommend going back and reading the rest of the thread to see what it is about

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1050897/french-frogs/26530#post_16635764

You have that thread hoppin . I like the chest shape on the second black . The blue has too high a tail angle . That exposes the fluff at the base of the tail . I stumbled across the frog thread a week or 2 ago . So are you all French on there ? Or is there another reason for the threads name . I did not see the reason at the beginning of the thread .

 

[scflock]

You have that thread hoppin . I like the chest shape on the second black . The blue has too high a tail angle . That exposes the fluff at the base of the tail . I stumbled across the frog thread a week or 2 ago . So are you all French on there ? Or is there another reason for the threads name . I did not see the reason at the beginning of the thread .

It's a very long story on the thread title. We have been together through 3 threads (one of them locked

), and the title of that thread came from the frog picture in the first post. If you read much of it, it's more of a chat thread that is sweet, abusive, funny, and disturbing all rolled into one. That frog picture was innocently posted by someone on the first thread we were all on, and I made the comment "I'm not going to say what I'm thinking, but that frog should have a French accent".
It was all downhill from there

 

[Ravynscroft]

You have that thread hoppin . I like the chest shape on the second black . The blue has too high a tail angle . That exposes the fluff at the base of the tail . I stumbled across the frog thread a week or 2 ago . So are you all French on there ? Or is there another reason for the threads name . I did not see the reason at the beginning of the thread .

2nd black, mine?

Have a rather windblown pic of his chest, lol... I bred him last year from a roo I got from @EastNashChick I gave her eggs and he hatched from those... when she couldn't keep him any longer she graciously offered him back to me first, and right when I needed him... I know he isn't the best, but I'm pleased with the improved results I'm getting...