Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Illia]

Yep, I was referring to having a homozygous muffed cock and a clean faced pullet.

If your bird throws clean faced offspring, that's what I was mentioning in the problem with crossing a clean faced to a fully muffed/bearded bird - Although the offspring may seem perfectly fine, . . . They're not. And that's a huge problem with some BBS birds out there. People think that just because they get rid of their clean faced birds, the problem is gone. Well it's not. The thing to do, if not replacing your flock, is to test each bird by breeding for who has only one allele, who doesn't. Takes a lot of chicks to do it properly though.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Cool! I love the SWs.
I just ended up with another one myself. Hoping this one will be a bit more "manly"

 

[pips&peeps]

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Do you need a box???

If so, I wish I would have known on Thursday.......

 

[speckledhen]

First, the "the muffs will come in time" saying is a lie. If your bird starts out and continues on without any visible muffs, it will never have any. It's a serious flaw of the breeder.

Sorry, that isn't always true. I've had this happen to me--a BW cockerel out of excellent breeder lines that, when I posted a chick pic of him here on BYC, someone asked me if he was beardless, did develop a very nice beard and muffs in the following weeks. It can happen that way, so never say never. That said, yeah, I've heard that excuse used for beardless/muffless substandard birds.​

 

[NellaBean]

Here are my blue wheaten pair.

I don't think the girl will ever lay. Sigh.

 

[coturnix2044]

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He looks pretty nice to me! His color looks very uniform and nice, his hackles show hardly any signs of discoloration, that's good.

For a young boy he does look to be filling in nicely, body wise. Is he bantam or large fowl? What lines does he come from?

Jeremy,
He is Large fowl, and I got him from cpartist who I think got her line from Peachick, and maybe someone else... I don't remember for sure...
You think he'd do good/alright in a show?

 

[coturnix2044]

Oh and these kiddo's are 3 weeks old today,
1 roo and 1 pullet?

whats the deal with the size differance? Kind of weird.. The darker one is the only one that dark..
Tyler

 

[punky rooster]

looks like a bantam

 

[coturnix2044]

They all came from LF parents.. maybe just hatched out of a smaller egg or something? idk.. I hope its not a bantie, I'll probably have to sell it then

 

[punky rooster]

look here https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=423910&p=1