Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[speckledhen]

The lady in the nest is my Speckled Sussex, Nelda. The plastic egg is there because I have one pullet who hasn't laid her first egg yet. I really doubt she needs that in there, but I haven't collected the fake eggs and removed them.

 

[hcammack]

They ladies are back in tip top shape I see beautiful!

 

[cottagegarden]

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I can send you some pics, but since I didnt take them I dont want to post them on here. I assume he will be showing at the Pa Farm Show this coming week(he did last year), maybe I can take some pics for you. I was going to photograph the winners, anyway. He also may show at Sussex, NJ State, or Frederick, MD shows and you could pick up and save on shipping. Blackbird12 on here has some blacks for sale and she is only @ 2 hours from you, if you were interested in that color.

 

[justmeandtheflock]

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I can send you some pics, but since I didnt take them I dont want to post them on here. I assume he will be showing at the Pa Farm Show this coming week(he did last year), maybe I can take some pics for you. I was going to photograph the winners, anyway. He also may show at Sussex, NJ State, or Frederick, MD shows and you could pick up and save on shipping. Blackbird12 on here has some blacks for sale and she is only @ 2 hours from you, if you were interested in that color.

Pics would be wonderful! Thank you!!! Saving on shipping would be nice but I don't think I can wait until August, lol. So you are expecting his birds to win? I am going to contact him but I guess I should wait if he is getting ready for a show.

 

[phrogg]

well, I sent my check out yesterday, asked for 10 lavenders and 15 blacks...
hopefully it gets there before some other chicken fanatics check does

I will surely be back to talk about them, I'm mildly interested in the genetics behind this chicken variety thing....
And I may have to try and trade someone some genetics at some point...

If I do end up getting these ameraucanas, and I want to make more of them, I should have somone elses bloodline right?
But then, how many times has some particular color strain been developed from birds that were not that color strain. Aren't all lavender Ameraucanas very closely related, and all ameraucanas for that matter, or did people independently develop these color varieties and around the same time and from different blood then? Sorry for rambling on and maybe this is the wrong place for this but it comes to mind so I said it. It seems to me that those like pips&peeps have a fair amount of knowledge on the topic and maybe could steer me in the direction of some simple source that contains developed ideas about things like this. I'm not really trying to go buy books about chicken genetics, or read them for that matter. Well, again sorry for rambling, I'll stop now, i guess...

to the ameraucana gods

...I can't stop
It seems like the chicken color breeding is fairly simple, like some of the early genetics work done by Mendel??? Is this assumption correct?

 

[SunnyDawn]

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I'd like to know this as well.

 

[chicken stalker]

I believe most lavender stock originated with John Blehm. As his lavender stock is sold, individuals use thier blacks to create thier own splits and lavender. So eventually the lines will become more genetically diverse but they can be traced back to John.

edited for grammar.....it was late

 

[phrogg]

It just seems to me like if this is the case, that John develops lavender, only john, and then distributes birds around, the only way they could get more genetically diverse is by crossing them and then trying to breed back to the standard. It seems that with new breed development, (or breed maintenance for that matter) always working toward that SOP, you could only get more genetically isolated from ancestors. But, my feeble mind does not really have a good grasp on the topic as a whole, so I expect that this could be the opposite of what is true. Maybe the wild chicken genetics are still there but the phenotypic plasticity functions such that we are able to see distinct varieties while unable to recover former morphology without crosses and new plastic morphology dominance.
Sure is cold here, 8 degrees outside right now, I just can't wait till next winter when I have all these ameraucanas to help keep my EE's warm

j/k

Hah! just realized this is the genetics forum anyway!

chicken stalker: I wish I had a barn like that

 

[chicken stalker]

thanks, I looove my barn

 

[chicken stalker]

I just got an egg from one of my split lavs!!!!

They haven't given me eggs for about 3-4 months. Hopefully it keeps up and I can start filling my long list of orders