Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Ivywoods]

Cloverleaf farm-Thank you for all the info about the lavenders. I am really interested in getting some. (patience, girl, patience!) I will go with the LF.

I'd like to be able to keep a line of pure lavender and a line of black. I want to cross a few of those just so I have some olive eggers. Along with my black copper marans, BO's, BJG's and a couple leghorns I should have a pretty colorful egg basket from my layer pen.

I have shown some chickens in the past, on a local level (and once had the grand champion for the state of Kansas when I was a teenager) but more recently helped my kids with showing their chickens. I'd like to get back into that a little. Besides showing some of my own I would like to help the local kids with theirs, both 4-H and open class. The poultry shows in this area are almost non-exhistant.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

We run into the same thing here. There aren't any poultry shows in OR besides fairs, I need to look into the "rules" but have heard that they make Oregon shows nearly impossible. There is a group of us talking about an "oregon feather fanciers" type of club, but if the possibilities of showing within the state are that restrictive, sadly it may not be an option.
Good luck in your chicken ventures, and congratulations on your past wins!

 

[TK Poultry]

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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?

Lavender is recessive and blue is heterozygous which means it carries one dominant allele and one recessive allele.
you should be able to Punnet Square them all
Lavender would be (ll) and Black would be (BB). Dominant alleles are always capital and recessive are always lower case.

I just sat and did a Punnet square and they work out very nicely they are just simple 2x2 Punnet Squares with simple genes. I can only do like a 6x6 but I would have a hard time its been awhile LOL. You have to love Honors Biology!!

So a Black Split x Black Split will yield you 25% Black 50% Black Split and 25% Lavender.
Hope this helps! Sorry it took awhile and others answered before me but I thought it was only polite to give you an answer myself as well

 

[Hens and Roos]

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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?

Lavender is recessive and blue is heterozygous which means it carries one dominant allele and one recessive allele.
you should be able to Punnet Square them all
Lavender would be (ll) and Black would be (BB). Dominant alleles are always capital and recessive are always lower case.

I just sat and did a Punnet square and they work out very nicely they are just simple 2x2 Punnet Squares with simple genes. I can only do like a 6x6 but I would have a hard time its been awhile LOL. You have to love Honors Biology!!

So a Black Split x Black Split will yield you 25% Black 50% Black Split and 25% Lavender.
Hope this helps! Sorry it took awhile and others answered before me but I thought it was only polite to give you an answer myself as well

Where does one look to find the abbrevations for the different alleles such as those you have indicated for Lavender and Black?

 

[chicken stalker]

Quote:
Lavender is recessive and blue is heterozygous which means it carries one dominant allele and one recessive allele.
you should be able to Punnet Square them all
Lavender would be (ll) and Black would be (BB). Dominant alleles are always capital and recessive are always lower case.

I just sat and did a Punnet square and they work out very nicely they are just simple 2x2 Punnet Squares with simple genes. I can only do like a 6x6 but I would have a hard time its been awhile LOL. You have to love Honors Biology!!

So a Black Split x Black Split will yield you 25% Black 50% Black Split and 25% Lavender.
Hope this helps! Sorry it took awhile and others answered before me but I thought it was only polite to give you an answer myself as well

Where does one look to find the abbrevations for the different alleles such as those you have indicated for Lavender and Black?

I use the Kip calculator a ton.

 

[TK Poultry]

Quote:
Lavender is recessive and blue is heterozygous which means it carries one dominant allele and one recessive allele.
you should be able to Punnet Square them all
Lavender would be (ll) and Black would be (BB). Dominant alleles are always capital and recessive are always lower case.

I just sat and did a Punnet square and they work out very nicely they are just simple 2x2 Punnet Squares with simple genes. I can only do like a 6x6 but I would have a hard time its been awhile LOL. You have to love Honors Biology!!

So a Black Split x Black Split will yield you 25% Black 50% Black Split and 25% Lavender.
Hope this helps! Sorry it took awhile and others answered before me but I thought it was only polite to give you an answer myself as well

Where does one look to find the abbrevations for the different alleles such as those you have indicated for Lavender and Black?

I made them up... you can make them up for a Punnet Square is just like a math equation the letters you can think of like variables. As long as you know what they are. We are just talking about general genes not the actual ones like the genetic gurus do! I think of a punnet square like that. I don't know if anyone will know what I'm talking about but a matrix is alot like a punnet square.

 

[SunnyDawn]

2 of my wheaton ameraucanas finally started laying!!!

They are the 2 on the top (sorry, I guess that is pretty obvious).

 

[chicken stalker]

very pretty

 

[TK Poultry]

Hens and Roos I think the real gene name is lav/lav

 

[Ivywoods]

Quote:
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?

Lavender is recessive and blue is heterozygous which means it carries one dominant allele and one recessive allele.
you should be able to Punnet Square them all
Lavender would be (ll) and Black would be (BB). Dominant alleles are always capital and recessive are always lower case.

I just sat and did a Punnet square and they work out very nicely they are just simple 2x2 Punnet Squares with simple genes. I can only do like a 6x6 but I would have a hard time its been awhile LOL. You have to love Honors Biology!!

So a Black Split x Black Split will yield you 25% Black 50% Black Split and 25% Lavender.
Hope this helps! Sorry it took awhile and others answered before me but I thought it was only polite to give you an answer myself as well

Cool... I think I got it! (I'm somewhat trainable)

I'm getting my new chicken house moved in tomorrow morning. (it's an antique horsedrawn blacksmith wagon that has been converted into a farm shop.)

I'm excited!