Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[CRYSTALCREEK]

I have one split pullet carrying the lav gene that I grew out from Jean's 2010 split x split pen that is laying a clear blue egg, no green. The eggs are small, but the color is clear blue. You can bet I'll be hatching a lot of her eggs.

 

[Illia]

Ameraucana and Araucana eggs are always hard to photograph. Sometimes I'll do the naughty thing of "photoshopping" them, but not to make them bluer, no, just to make the color in the photograph more true. Often cameras can get certain color combs confused, so they'll turn the whole photo a certain tint. (Usually blue or green eggs turn out a gray color)

That aside, if you want a good colored egg photo without having to doctor it, - The trick is colored backgrounds. Setting them out in natural light with grey, green, and/or brown backgrounds can help, or putting them next to brown or white eggs also helps.

 

[daisychick]

Please be gentle, but do evaluate my rooster. I got eggs over a year ago from Harry and this is my only Rooster from that hatch. I have one lavender hen also from that hatch. But other than that this guy has no girls (other than all my layer flock

). I am on the lookout for some good girls for him.

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

I like him. I know you probably want lav girls for him, but don't discount the strides that can be made by giving him good quality blacks hatched from eggs of good color. Thanks for sharing.

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

Can we see the hen when you have time, also?

 

[daisychick]

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You can see her tail feathers in the pics above.

That is the only pic I have on my computer. I could get some for sure when it stops snowing.

I would love to get some lav hens for him and would also love some blacks from really blue eggs. My lavender hen is real nice color and shape, she just does not lay worth a hoot

 

[Illia]

Except for his low wing carriage and not very tight of carriage, he's very nice! I especially love the last photo's color. . . I've never seen a Lavender bird in real life, but would love to think they look like that.

 

[daisychick]

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They are kind of like trying to photograph blue eggs, they really wash out in photos sometimes. Colorado sun is bright and it makes him look more washed out "gray" than he really is.

 

[Tailfeathers]

pips&peeps :

Royce, these are lavs and most of them are carrying the brown gene still, it won't clear up in a year.

If you put your eggs in a different color carton, you can see the shell color better.

A red background will help too.

Ok, I'm confused. Granted I don't know a thing about Lavs but why wouldn't the principle be the same? If you gotta bird carrying a dominant and a recessive gene and you outcross your birds to find the recessive gene and then eliminate all but the ones carrying the dominant gene, it seems like it should work to me.

What am I missing?

God Bless,​

 

[Tailfeathers]

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Hi Crystal, do you flock breed or do you breed by putting specific males over specific females? If you do the latter, you should be able to tell in short order whether your males are throwing any off-color egg genes. I had a problem with some greenish-tinted eggs and was able to trace it back in one year to a specific male. Now this year I turned out the best looking bunch of girls that I ever have to date and I have two of them that are throwing pure white eggs. As soon as I catch the potlickers that are laying the white egg, I should be able to tell who caused it and eliminate the problem.

Also, as I mentioned, if you breed those males to a hen that you know to have all white egg genes, you should be able to identify which males are throwing brown egg genes once their progeny begins to lay.

God Bless,