Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Alaskan]

Yeah, hedge hog girl looks PATHETIC

They are growing fast though... Maybe one more week and she will have proper body feathers again.

I will take close up photos of that suspect blue cockerel... And post, you'll can vote as to what you think.

I HATE nasty hiding recessives... Annoying things. And my current bloodlines are so nice!

 

[Sylvester017]

I have updated our website page to show a few more examples of self-blue to show the variations that are acceptable under the proposed standard. Most of these were taken from our archive meet results photo gallery.

http://www.ameraucanabreedersclub.org/self-blue sop.html

I keep reading mentions of "self-blue" without knowing what it means. So it is a light-gray feathering (that breeds true?) much lighter than actual Blue Ameraucanas that are from BBS breeding?

 

[FowlStuff]

I keep reading mentions of "self-blue" without knowing what it means. So it is a light-gray feathering (that breeds true?) much lighter than actual Blue Ameraucanas that are from BBS breeding?

This BYC forum post explains it.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/683425/lavender-ameraucana-breeders-unite/2280#post_17310030

 

[samouw]

I have updated our website page to show a few more examples of self-blue to show the variations that are acceptable under the proposed standard. Most of these were taken from our archive meet results photo gallery. http://www.ameraucanabreedersclub.org/self-blue sop.html
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Did you look at the pictures on the link? That shows several pictures of self-blue from our archives.

 

[pamperedamber]

Breeeder help please.

If I cross a Blue Wheaten Rooster with a Blue hen, what kind of chicks will I get?

The color chart only shows blue, black, and splash? Does it apply to the wheaten? Does anyone have a chart that does include the wheaten?

Thank you for all the help.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Breeeder help please.

If I cross a Blue Wheaten Rooster with a Blue hen, what kind of chicks will I get?

The color chart only shows blue, black, and splash? Does it apply to the wheaten? Does anyone have a chart that does include the wheaten?

Thank you for all the help.

Breeding wheaten to solid colors will result in EE's... you only want to breed wheaten, blue wheaten and splash wheatens together... it does have the same rules as breeding blue, black and splash just not crossing the color varieties...

Edited to add- in the chart, replace black with wheaten, blue with blue wheaten and splash with splash wheaten for those results...

 

[MrsBachbach]

Thanks both of you! I wasn't sure, I have never looked it up since I haven't ever had that problem.



By the way, pips&peeps I love the chicks that I got from you. (Technically, I just got eggs from you...whatever

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One of the female Black standards though is going through one of those franken-molts...

(I did check her for lice/mites and signs of picking...all good).

I was wondering.. If I had a bigger pool from which to choose from/cull.... I think I would cull the franken-molt girl, just because I think it 1.looks so impressively ugly/diseased and 2. Can that actually be healthy?

But maybe people like the birds that molt like that, since the molt must be finished faster?

I prefer the ones that molt so that you can't tell except for the number of feathers on the ground, and the reduction in egg production.

Do any of you cull out the heavy/almost all at once molters? Or do you all not care?

Those are usually the better layers. I wouldn't cull for a heavy molter.

 

[Alaskan]

Thanks forthe input.

 

[pamperedamber]

Breeding wheaten to solid colors will result in EE's... you only want to breed wheaten, blue wheaten and splash wheatens together... it does have the same rules as breeding blue, black and splash just not crossing the color varieties...

Edited to add- in the chart, replace black with wheaten, blue with blue wheaten and splash with splash wheaten for those results...

Thank you so much for the imput. Trying to figure out what to replace my splash with. I think I will go with a blue to match my blue hen.

 

[bruceha2000]

Those are usually the better layers. I wouldn't cull for a heavy molter.

Limited experience, and not with Ameraucana, but I agree. My WORST moulter is an EE and she is my best layer though she doesn't lay in the winter after she moults late fall. The prior best layer (she's only laid soft eggs this year and has a mass, maybe a tumor, down in her shell gland area) is a BA. She is also a BLOW feathers moulter. They are both 4 years old, the EE is laying two 70g+ eggs every 3 days. The Anconcas hardly show moult other than their missing tail and severely shrunken combs. They laid well the first year, then slacked off.