Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[pips&peeps]

Looks like a blue wheaten cock bird and a splash wheaten hen. The offspring all look correct. What is throwing you off is the splash wheaten cockerels.

You won't get any wheaten offspring with the pair you have, just blue wheaten and splash wheaten.

 

[jerryse]

Looks like a blue wheaten cock bird and a splash wheaten hen. The offspring all look correct. What is throwing you off is the splash wheaten cockerels.

You won't get any wheaten offspring with the pair you have, just blue wheaten and splash wheaten.

Yes . I missed the hen being splash wheaten .

 

[marchick]

Looks like a blue wheaten cock bird and a splash wheaten hen. The offspring all look correct. What is throwing you off is the splash wheaten cockerels.

You won't get any wheaten offspring with the pair you have, just blue wheaten and splash wheaten.

Yes . I missed the hen being splash wheaten .

Ewww I think I get it! She doesn't have any color in her wings and tail! I don't have splash! Just learning!

 

[sharette]

Thank you how do you tell she is splash, by her offspring or something on her?

 

[junebuggena]

Thank you how do you tell she is splash, by her offspring or something on her?

Wheaten hens have black through the tail. Blue Wheaten have blue through the tail. Splash Wheaten have no noticeable patterning through their tail. Also, you can tell by the offspring that she produced. With the Blue Wheaten rooster, all you got were Blue Wheaten and Splash Wheaten chicks. That is only possible if one of the parents is Splash Wheaten, and it clearly isn't the rooster.

 

[pips&peeps]

That is incorrect. Having no color in the tail just means the bird is poorly patterned.

Splash wheaten females generally have mostly white (perhaps a little blue) in the tail feathers or in the wing feathers. This color would be similar to the color you see on a regular splash bird but just limited to the tail and the feathers in the wings.

 

[MrsBachbach]

Would you guys tell me if any of these four is a cockerel? I keep hoping I have at least one out of the four chicks. They hatched 4/3. Three blue and one black. I think maybe the third blue one? I wish they were as easy as the HRIR.

Pic 2, 3, and 4 all look like cockerels. You got more than you wished for.

 

[MrsBachbach]

That is incorrect. Having no color in the tail just means the bird is poorly patterned.

Splash wheaten females generally have mostly white (perhaps a little blue) in the tail feathers or in the wing feathers. This color would be similar to the color you see on a regular splash bird but just limited to the tail and the feathers in the wings.

Just a little blue? Now that I never heard. I thought if you saw any color in the tail or wings it was either blue or wheaten, just poorly colored as you said. I've seen color in the coverts before even when color is barely there in the primaries and identify their color from that.
So now I'm confused.

 

[MrsBachbach]

Wheaten hens have black through the tail. Blue Wheaten have blue through the tail. Splash Wheaten have no noticeable patterning through their tail. Also, you can tell by the offspring that she produced. With the Blue Wheaten rooster, all you got were Blue Wheaten and Splash Wheaten chicks. That is only possible if one of the parents is Splash Wheaten, and it clearly isn't the rooster.

That isn't correct. You can get splash from two blue parents, along with blue and even wheaten.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Would you guys tell me if any of these four is a cockerel? I keep hoping I have at least one out of the four chicks. They hatched 4/3. Three blue and one black. I think maybe the third blue one? I wish they were as easy as the HRIR.

First one is your only pullet, lol... how many boys did you want?