Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[chics in the sun]

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I'm thinking Halo's roo will have to pay a visit. If we use the same roo that created her, I wonder if the gene would become more dominate and create a few more of them.
Halo - do you use more than one roo in the breeding pen, or do they all have the same daddy? I can't have roo's here, so that poses a problem for creating "Booted Ameraucanas".

 

[bikechick]

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Lavender is almost a lilac/purple color and blue is of course blue. The blue is also laced and lavender is not. They also come from two different genes the self blue recessive gene (lavender) and the blue andalusian gene (blue) is heterzygous gene which means it can produce Blues (Bb) Blacks (BB) and Splash (bb) you can do a basic punnet square with this gene.

Hey, thanks for the info. That helps. I am no geneticist(sp?) and I had never heard of a punnet square, but google is wonderful, and I found a few good illustrations to explain the simple tic-tac-toe diagram.

So to clarify what you wrote, am I correct in reading it that the blue gene and the lavender gene are both recessive, and you can do a punnet square with both of them?

Lavender bred to black give all black chicks, right?
Those chicks bred to each other gives 50% lavender and 50% black, right?
If I breed lavender to lavender, do I get all lavender?

Ivywoods-good questions I have had some questions re: lavs.
Clarification: So I would need a lavender chicken in the breeding program to get lavs? (I have blue & blacks.) Lav bred to just blacks? Or will a lav chick eventually "show up" from the blue & black pen w/out a lav breeder? (sorry I may be asking a silly question-I know there are no silly questions but I feel better doing a disclaimer

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Jean, I didn't mind seeing your "for sale" birds. It was nice seeing some more pictures.

 

[HBuehler]

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Hey, thanks for the info. That helps. I am no geneticist(sp?) and I had never heard of a punnet square, but google is wonderful, and I found a few good illustrations to explain the simple tic-tac-toe diagram.

So to clarify what you wrote, am I correct in reading it that the blue gene and the lavender gene are both recessive, and you can do a punnet square with both of them?

Lavender bred to black give all black chicks, right?
Those chicks bred to each other gives 50% lavender and 50% black, right?
If I breed lavender to lavender, do I get all lavender?

Ivywoods-good questions I have had some questions re: lavs.
Clarification: So I would need a lavender chicken in the breeding program to get lavs? (I have blue & blacks.) Lav bred to just blacks? Or will a lav chick eventually "show up" from the blue & black pen w/out a lav breeder? (sorry I may be asking a silly question-I know there are no silly questions but I feel better doing a disclaimer

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Jean, I didn't mind seeing your "for sale" birds. It was nice seeing some more pictures.

Hi! Who's your daughter holding in the pic? It's too small to see it good

You do need a lav with the blacks to get lav blue will never make lav.You really don't want to mix lav with blue it can really mess things up down the line. With your boy...I know him well I would get some of Jeans or John's Lavs in hopes for some real nice pullets..He's not a split so you wouldn't get any lavs from the first generation of chicks but the lav gene would be there for the next generation.If you wanted to get some from either of them in the Spring or sooner if Jean's offering

I would go in on a split order if you don't want 15 to 25 chicks I need more wheaten.

 

[Mahonri]

I've always culled/rehomed any bird that had the stray foot feather. I've never seen any with that many feathers!... almost looks faverolleish!

That said, I'd still love to have one of those 'white wheatens'......

 

[speckledhen]

Once I had an Ameraucana pullet pop up with some feather stubs on her legs. The parents, owned by me, came out of excellent breeder lines, so I guess it's just a fluke.

 

[dak]

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Lavender is almost a lilac/purple color and blue is of course blue. The blue is also laced and lavender is not. They also come from two different genes the self blue recessive gene (lavender) and the blue andalusian gene (blue) is heterzygous gene which means it can produce Blues (Bb) Blacks (BB) and Splash (bb) you can do a basic punnet square with this gene.

Hey, thanks for the info. That helps. I am no geneticist(sp?) and I had never heard of a punnet square, but google is wonderful, and I found a few good illustrations to explain the simple tic-tac-toe diagram.

So to clarify what you wrote, am I correct in reading it that the blue gene and the lavender gene are both recessive, and you can do a punnet square with both of them?

Lavender bred to black give all black chicks, right?
Those chicks bred to each other gives 50% lavender and 50% black, right?
If I breed lavender to lavender, do I get all lavender?

Yes, black to lav will give you 100% black (unless the Lavender bird has blue in its background) resulting in splits

No, if you breed the offspring of a black to lavender breeding (called splits), you wil get..
25% homozygous blacks (black not carrying lavender)
50% heterozygous blacks (black but carrying the lavender gene)
25% lavender

Yes, lav to lav will give you 100% lav

 

[halo]

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I'm thinking Halo's roo will have to pay a visit. If we use the same roo that created her, I wonder if the gene would become more dominate and create a few more of them.
Halo - do you use more than one roo in the breeding pen, or do they all have the same daddy? I can't have roo's here, so that poses a problem for creating "Booted Ameraucanas".

Im using only one roo, my Wheaten that I got from peachick a year or two ago. I am hatching a lot of babies right now from him because I am going to be switching in the spring to a new blue wheaten that Im growing from a totally different line that has a few improvements over my current roo. Im getting some very very pretty babies now, but I do get that odd "white wheaten" now and again, and it seems theres an errant feather legged gene running around too. I can't tell you how many Ive hatched....maybe 100? and have never seen that feather leg before. Just never know whats swimming around in that gene pool, do we?

Thats like I hatched out a bunch of black rocks last year, easily over 50, and one single chick ended up growing up birchen. Where he came from Ill never know, but every other chick grew up to be gorgeous shiny black with a rich beetle green sheen. He was totally birchen.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Thanks!

According to the Bantam Standard, it says to refer to standard black plumage description, which does call for the beetle green sheen.

 

[Newyorkrita]

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I am just thinking that if they look the same as the Large Fowl Ameraucanas except for size that I might do better with the Bantams. I don't have that much room here but I really want the blue eggs.

Yeah, the bantams take ALOT less space...I have both LF and bantams, the bantams are pretty awesome!

Here's a couple of mine:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15879_buttercup3_2.jpghttps://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15879_buttercup4.jpg

How do the Bantams stack up against the large Fowl for frequency of eggs? Also color of egg?

What colors do the Batams come in? All the colors of the large fowl? Also I already have some regular size chickens. Well they are all still chicks. But can they be kept together as adults? So many quesation I know. Thanks!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Yeah, the bantams take ALOT less space...I have both LF and bantams, the bantams are pretty awesome!

Here's a couple of mine:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15879_buttercup3_2.jpghttps://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15879_buttercup4.jpg

How do the Bantams stack up against the large Fowl for frequency of eggs? Also color of egg?

What colors do the Batams come in? All the colors of the large fowl? Also I already have some regular size chickens. Well they are all still chicks. But can they be kept together as adults? So many quesation I know. Thanks!

WHEN they are laying, they lay almost as regularly as the large fowl. That being said, my blacks stopped early this year, so it's been a while already with no eggs. They are all just about completely finished regrowing feathers after moult, so I am hoping that I'll be seeing something soon. Egg color with the blacks is really great, and all of my lavender bantams hatched from very blue eggs, they are still growing up though so I haven't seen egg color from them yet. Bantams are accepted in all the same colors as LF, but not all are as readily available as some of the LF varieties. At least with my blacks, I'd have no problem keeping them with LF, they can hold their own, SOME of my lavender bantams are a little more timid, and I don't know about other varieties.