Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Germaine_11.20]

Do Ameracauna Chicks have white soles on their feet or do they become white as they get older?

Also, their shanks and down to their toes--are they fully dark slate at hatch or do they darken up

I know the toenails are white. Thank you!

 

[Mahonri]

Well the question was answered this morning....

This pretty little EE came from two pure bred ameraucanas. BWA X BLACK.

HE crowed this morning at just 10 weeks old.

I no longer have any Ameraucanas that aren't W/BW.... I'm really trying to work on just that one type. I'm hoping that eventually I'll end up with a NICE Splash roo to put over my Wheaten hens.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I'm SURE I'll end up with some extra splash wheaten roos- but won't know what they are until summer.

My adults are from Tailfeathers eggs. All their chicks will be blue or splash wheaten. After Dirty Girl has her run with the splash wheaten, she's going in with the regular wheaten roo. His big house isn't ready yet, and she likes free-ranging so much I figured I'd give her some healthy freedom for a while.

Has anybody crossed wheatens with lavs? Would you get splits like you do with black, or is wheaten too complicated for that? What do the chicks look like?
Yeah- crazy idea, I know- but if I end up getting some lavs they won't have their own house for a while.

 

[BlackBart]

How old are they when they first start to lay? Somebody told me they lay earlier than some other breeds of chickens.

Also I was told the color of the egg the chick comes out of determines what color the egg the hen will lay. So if the chick comes out of a olive egg she will lay a olive egg, True?

 

[cottagegarden]

It sounds like you may have Ameraucanas and Easter Egg layers confused. Ameraucanas should lay a blue or blueish green egg.
Easter Egg layers, which hatcheries sell as Ameraucanas, are a blue gene egg laying parent crossed with anything so the results are
blue, green, brown, and pink eggs. Both parents contribute genes to egg color so the egg color is not going to determine what color the
hen will lay, its just part of the equation. If a chick comes out of an olive egg she may lay that, but she may also lay another color depending on the rooster.

EEs may start to lay earlier depending on what the cross is. Ameraucanas seem to take their sweet time.


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[BlackBart]

Easter Egg layers, which hatcheries sell as Ameraucanas,

Ahh, thats why I am confused

thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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Well if the answer is there it isn't clear, sorry to bother you, I will look elsewhere for the answer

 

[megcpat]

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Well if the answer is there it isn't clear, sorry to bother you, I will look elsewhere for the answer

Ha Ha, Rustyswoman, I read it exactly the same way that you did right there, before realizing that the question that was answered is the gender of Mahonri's bird there......

 

[pips&peeps]

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The soles should be white when they hatch. The feet and toes can be light when they hatch. They should be slate or black when fully mature.

 

[bacres]

I've learned that Black Blue and Splash can breed together and those are the colors you will get. Also I've learned it is the same with Wheaten Blue wheaten and splash wheaten. Now can you brees all 6 of those colors together to get BBS and WBWSW? Or would you get bad colored birds?