Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[tigercreek]

Double post...sorry

 

[tigercreek]

I don't disagree with you at all, and I have said before that my typing BBS is just out of laziness. To be totally honest, this is my first year breeding quality birds of any type, and genetics intimidates me. I know that that will be the next logical step in my education, but this year I'm just trying to get a handle on the basics

Lol..chicken genetics is intimidating ..it's like the old eating an elephant joke.....one bite at a time

 

[DnDFarm]

I know you have seen AbbevilleOz's birds, and those are my first gen. from my farm. They all came from the splash rooster, but the blues with this black are what I started with



I had one dark blue that is with the splash rooster, and that's where my splash chicks are coming from. I knew I wanted darker, and I knew the edging wasn't even close, this year was just my first attempt to deepen the color. I have so much to learn, including genetics, but having people to talk to that have years of experience beyond myself is such a tremendous help. Thanks

 

[DnDFarm]

This happens more than people realize. Especially if others in the pen are fertile. If the hen just doesn't like him and makes breeding difficult, some won't waste their energy chasing them. My suggestion for that situation is put the rooster in a small pen by himself a couple of days. Then add one at a time the girls that are resistant. Keep them there a day or two or until they lay an egg. He should have her bred by then. Striking the mark is easier right after the hen gets off the nest. Then take that one out and put any other girl that is showing infertile in there with him.

I was almost at that point, but the two girls in particular that have been playing hard to get have been taken down in the last few weeks. This batch will tell the tale. Two hens have very obviously broken back feathers, but two have been pristine up until a few weeks ago. That's when I started cracking eggs again. He is a sibling to my other rooster, so bringing in a Redden bird is a very good alternative for me, but I really would like to see some of his chicks

 

[Saris]

Lockdown!!!!! The ones undercover are the lav splits or they are unlabeled. The others are my choc splits! woot woot!!!

 

[MrsBachbach]

I don't disagree with you at all, and I have said before that my typing BBS is just out of laziness. To be totally honest, this is my first year breeding quality birds of any type, and genetics intimidates me. I know that that will be the next logical step in my education, but this year I'm just trying to get a handle on the basics

If you produce any blacks out of bluexblue matings, those may be the ones you want to breed to splash, just to avoid the chance of introducing E to your blue line. My input in this is you can breed bluexblue all you desire, but if the genes aren't there(and that is likely) your result will likely be washed out blues down the line. Do that blue feather on the white paper test he spoke of. I've seen that translucent color myself, but on the males black cape feathers.

 

[DnDFarm]

If you produce any blacks out of bluexblue matings, those may be the ones you want to breed to splash, just to avoid the chance of introducing E to your blue line. My input in this is you can breed bluexblue all you desire, but if the genes aren't there(and that is likely) your result will likely be washed out blues down the line. Do that blue feather on the white paper test he spoke of. I've seen that translucent color myself, but on the males black cape feathers.

All of a sudden GMOs don't seem so bad...

 

[MrsBachbach]

Here are my blue wheaten boys! With the exception of Eve! Wanted to share some photos I just took this morning

They look like they are coming along well! But I think they are wheatens. The one in picture #6 looks like a blue wheaten though. Or is that supposed to be a blue? Because if that is a blue, something isn't right. I see brown in the feathering. I was going to comment on your second set of pictures of blues and mention I see brown in a blue. Didn't know if it was my monitor, some lighting or what, but you shouldn't see any brownish or reddish color in blues.

 

[MrsBachbach]

All of a sudden GMOs don't seem so bad...

GMO's?

 

[DnDFarm]

GMO's?

Genetically modified. Just put some Ameraucana DNA in a petri dish and add the correct amount of lacing...