Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[cgmaster]

True, but Silkies also have feathered legs (dominant gene) and black skin (another dominant gene).

that may be true but I crossed a silkie with an EE and git a hen with black skin, slate legs, clean legs, muffs and beardbeard, so could that a. That that silkie had only one copy?

 

[junebuggena]

that may be true but I crossed a silkie with an EE and git a hen with black skin, slate legs, clean legs, muffs and beardbeard, so could that a. That that silkie had only one copy?

Your Silkie was likely a poor quality hatchery bird.

 

[Miss Ameraucana]

Here is chick female #2 with the crooked toe. I used vet wrap and so far so good! She's picked at it but it's been on for about 12 hours now. Not too tight. I'm hoping it will help straighten out her toe. It seemed to be getting a lot worse this last day or two. It's not too tight, I started to cut out a little sandal but that was really difficult trying to put it on in place.. under her foot. So it's just vet wrap!

 

[marchick]

Here is chick female #2 with the crooked toe. I used vet wrap and so far so good! She's picked at it but it's been on for about 12 hours now. Not too tight. I'm hoping it will help straighten out her toe. It seemed to be getting a lot worse this last day or two. It's not too tight, I started to cut out a little sandal but that was really difficult trying to put it on in place.. under her foot. So it's just vet wrap!

It looks good! I hope it helps her!

 

[MrsBachbach]

Girl...right...?

Yes, looks like a girl.

 

[MrsBachbach]

Here's the other chick guys. It's the second lightest of the wheatens . Definitely has a light colored chest!

Check the neck feathers coming in. Dark feathers coming in on neck=male.

Like these:



See the black?

 

[Miss Ameraucana]

Check the neck feathers coming in. Dark feathers coming in on neck=male. Like these: See the black?

Oh no...gonna go check her! Or him. Thanks so much.

 

[Miss Ameraucana]

 

[MamaChick0708]

Hi guys I am hoping somebody can help me uncover a mystery, Im pretty new at this chicken things and I have three Ameraucana chicks all headed into the week three(ish), the ugly phase of loosing feathers. I noticed however that two of my birds have very little tail feathers, one of whom I have to check constantly for pasty butt has no feathers around the vent at all and is literally sporting one single tail feather, and is pretty much bald. Is this normal? I thought by now all the chicks would have tail feathers coming in and only one does. Anybody every encounter this?


Also is it normal for their feet to change color? I have one who went from gold/yellow chick feet into a slate grey color very quickly.

 

[DnDFarm]

Ok, did a 5 day candle of my Sunday set, and it's confirmed. I have a gorgeous black rooster that is 0% fertile in 75 degree weather. The splash is still 95%, and the girls all came from the same batch, so it's not the girls. I've wasted space in the incubator for the last time. I have a gorgeous black rooster that won't reproduce. Now I have a dilemma, and 3 options:
1. Leave the black with those girls and wait 6 more months until I can replace him with a blue from the splash pen, basically ruining my whole year with 4 laying hens.
2. Put those light blue and splash hens in with the splash rooster, and get more chicks, but take the chance of diluting those blues even further.
3. Take my blue rooster with the leakage, put him with the light blues, and hope he produces a non-leaky black to replace him this year.

Trimming feathers is not an option for me. I'm not manscaping a bird just to see if it will work when his brother is 95%. He's getting on the girls, I've seen it. He's either infertile, or has horrible aim. He won't reproduce, so he has to go. It's a shame, because he's the closest to SOP I have.

My blue rooster is gorgeous. He's the biggest, most well shaped rooster of the 3. He was the alpha before the pen split, and is currently in an OE pen with BCM culls. For those of you that don't know, my issue with him was leaky shoulder feathers, and that's why he was put in the OE pen.

Someone once told me to build the barn before I paint it. Do I put this big blue in with the girls, keep all the cockerels and grow them out to see who leaks and who doesn't, then hopefully get a non-leaky blue or black to take his place? If I do that, am I compromising the females by breeding carriers? What would you guys do?