Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[DnDFarm]

They are beautiful! I didn't know you could breed back to a splash. I thought you had to breed back to black?

I don't think the color of the parent bird matters. My birds are from breeding black, blue, and splash together so any one of those colors could be carrying

 

[marchick]

I am so confussed!!!

 

[DnDFarm]

I am so confussed!!!

That's my fault. I missed that JB said "split". That doesn't mean that it's white, just that it's carrying

 

[marchick]

No! I get confussed all on my own!

 

[dstokely]

My birds are from Paul, and I am not disappointed at all to have a white. I'm just trying to figure out how I can get to the point of having an all white pen

Me too! I consider it a bonus!!!!!

 

[dstokely]

One hatch is not enough to determine if your hens are predisposed to producing cockerels. Every one that hatches regularly will tell you that sometimes a hatch just turns out to be all boys, or all girls. Usually it's about a 50/50 split, give or take. An all cockerel hatch was not caused by anything you, personally, did or didn't do.

Not one hatch. Two were last year and I was hatching for a friend of mine. Turned out there were two white roos which she rehomed. My first hatch this year, I thought I had a splash, but it is a white and I am not positive if it is hen or roo, but I think probably a roo. I have another hatch going on. I believe I have another white still in the incubator. So far, I have been very lucky, and I hope not to jinx myself, in that I have a very good hen to roo ratio. Out of my first hatch of 12, I think I have 4 roos. Out of my original 15 from Paul, I had 5 roos and 10 hens.

 

[marchick]

My birds are from Paul, and I am not disappointed at all to have a white. I'm just trying to figure out how I can get to the point of having an all white pen

x2 I hope that my Smith Ams will give me a recessive white rooster. Then I wouldn't have to breed my recessive white to black to get splits and then breed her back to the splits. It would be so much easyer!

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Anyone here interested in trading some eggs. I have some nice heritage Dominques and some Blue and Black Copper Marans. I also have some Golden Duckwing American Games.

 

[DnDFarm]

Recessive white requires two copies of the gene, one from each parent. Your rooster and at least one of your hens are considered 'split' for white. They carry one gene, not two, so they do not express the white. If you breed her back to her father, then you'll get 50% whites, and 50% splits. Breeding her to an unrelated male will produce 100% spilt for white chicks, and will give you some more genetic diversity to work with.

Don't know how I missed this post, thanks for that advice. With that thought, I think I may breed her back to the splash this year for a few more whites, then take them to the black rooster I am getting from Susan, or some of his offspring next year

 

[dstokely]

Almost 5 wks old. When I did the 1 wk tail check, I put her in the hen group, but it was iffy. My comb pic was blurry so I could not use it. Thoughts...hen or roo? They had beards, but they have been mostly picked off now.