Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Goose and Fig]

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I assume she's talking about the upside down V, as opposed to a pinched one. I have some girls with nice shape- need to take more butt pictures

 

[Goose and Fig]

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They are definitely still a bit "orpy", but I just LOVE your birds!!!!

 

[Illia]

Yep, they're quite Orpington-like in body, definitely need some fluff tucked up a light tigher and the rears should be narrower, but as for the tail, I don't know what is considered ideal or perfect, honestly the standard doesn't describe it too well and I've yet to get a reply on it, but to me, THIS is a nice tail. . .

Fluff is tucked up, but the tail is still well spread, both from top to bottom and from side to side. Also, the legs aren't so narrowly spaced. I find a lot of BW Ameraucanas have very tight rear ends and hocky looking, narrowly spaced legs.

I like the bottom to be fairly spaced, the top to meet, kind of like a V, but not too narrow of one and not too wide of one. I've got a gorgeous black pullet who I honestly think has too narrow of a tail, too. . .

Love everything about that girl except the spacing of her tail from side to side.


But again, I'd love to know from an experienced breeder, to the standard, what is correct. Because still, calling an upside down V tail a good one may not be true. Often a V shape implies a short back.

 

[Cochin378]

I just ordered 15 blue and black amercuana chicks as well as 10 Welsummers from Whitmore farms. Hopefully they are good quality I am planing on showing some of them. Has anyone on this thread ever bought chickens from Whitmore farms? If so how is the quality of the birds. Cochin

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Will is great to deal with. I hatched eggs from him last year. My Wellies came from his lines.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Exactly what I was thinking! But I don't know how well that will play off in his offspring. I recieved a PM with fantastic advice from Harry Shaffer (I'm calling him out

) and I will be keeping them both. Plus I trust his opinion in that I have some of his gorgeous Lavender Ameraucanas so he must know what he's doing!

Thanks Harry.

 

[Illia]

Color-wise, the only thing I find wrong with the first one is the near red color in his shoulder. Otherwise I'd breed for a darker buff just to see if it could help the undercolor. And as I said before, the lighter one only seems wrong in color, but there's a hard flash on him, so I really am not sure.

But, naturally, keeping both is a good idea.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Thank you.

 

[pips&peeps]

This is an example of what a cock bird ameraucana tail is supposed to look like:

You can see how tight the feathers are on the whole bird. The saddle area is not real wide and the back is bit longer. The feather itself on the lavenders needs to be a bit wider also.

This is by no means a perfect bird, but a pretty good specimen to compare to.

A fault I have seen on alot of the lavender cockerels is low hanging wings. The lavender cockerel pictured previously has nice tightly held wings, but be aware of it when breeding. And another thing I don't like on some of the birds I have been breeding is the eye. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but it's not a wide expressive eyeball. I call them "beady eyes" and I cull every one of them that has it.

 

[pips&peeps]

Ok, I guess I have killed the thread.