Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Saris]

Lost my 3-yr-old sweet girl today (Blue Wheaten - my avatar)

. Took these pics this morning. Vet thinks she was ill quite a while but going about eating/drinking/dust-bathing/foraging with the outdoor flock until she just went uncharacteristically aggressive this past few weeks. He prescribed medicine that made no difference. He put her down for me because she wouldn't eat or drink any more without a lot of coaxing. Not easy diagnosing chicken health since so many maladies mimic the same symptoms. R.I.P. Taffy girl.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Might I ask so how did you achieve the chocolate color. I been wanting to have some since I saw here with another member. They are beautiful chicks and I hope they work out.

Thank you. Though I can't take credit for getting them to this stage, @pips&peeps did the hard work, I just hatched these guys. I'm hoping to carry on creating good quality birds though.

 

[bruceha2000]

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Soooo ..... A female can be chocolate in color but will not pass that on, right? And you can't breed a chocolate hen to a chocolate carrying rooster and expect to get chocolate pullets any more often than if the hen were not chocolate in color? But if you breed your chocolate gene carrying rooster, the chicks are gender determinable by color, chocolate = pullet, black = cockerel, OR maybe black could be either because that pullet chick didn't get the chocolate gene?

Boy is genetics confusing!

 

[Chicken5555]

My Wheaten Ameraucana cockerel has arrived and is hanging out in his quarantine area with some food and his vitamin water. After Garfunkel's quarantine is up and he has proven to be healthy (which I'm sure he is), he'll get to move in next door to the main flock.

 

[OurFirstLadies]

Our three month old Wheaton Americaunas are pretty spoiled. We failed to integrate them into our original flock of assorted two months olds so they have their own coop and only come together when free ranging which is several supervised hours of the day.

 

[magicstorm]

Soooo ..... A female can be chocolate in color but will not pass that on, right? And you can't breed a chocolate hen to a chocolate carrying rooster and expect to get chocolate pullets any more often than if the hen were not chocolate in color? But if you breed your chocolate gene carrying rooster, the chicks are gender determinable by color, chocolate = pullet, black = cockerel, OR maybe black could be either because that pullet chick didn't get the chocolate gene?

Boy is genetics confusing!

Here is a good explanation, it is based on orpington genetics

 

[marchick]

Our three month old Wheaton Americaunas are pretty spoiled. We failed to integrate them into our original flock of assorted two months olds so they have their own coop and only come together when free ranging which is several supervised hours of the day.

They are cute! I like your chicken house!

 

[marchick]

Update, I started out with 13 and I lost one pullet. Out of the 12 left. I ended up with 6 pullets, 4 Wheaten roosters and 2 Blue Wheaten roosters.

I think!

 

[marchick]

They are getting big! I just thought I would post some pictures.

 

[Renee97038]

I'm new to raising Ameraucanas, have 15 chicks from Paul Smith. Researching the clubs available I see 2 different clubs. Didnt there used to be only 1 club? What happened?

 

[hockeyfish]

Here's a few pictures of our girls. I'm not sure if they're Ameraucana or Easter egger mutts.