Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[CRYSTALCREEK]

I have one male in each pen over 2 or 3 or 6 females. Depends which pen we're talking about. The problem with the lavs, at least at my house, is they alllll have the brown egg genes so I won't have any breeding stock left if I eliminate the "potlickers".

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

Jean probably made miles of progress last year when she kept only the lav offspring out of her 2010 split x split pen. Some of those should at least be much improved, I would think. Trick is also finding blacks of good quality with that pretty blue egg everyone strives for. Then you have to wait two more generations after that. It's a long process. I'm glad my kiddo is still very young, maybe we'll have it right by the time she can show them in 4H, although the egg color isn't something they are judged on. I can't wait to grow out my Blehm chicks coming in March and see what those females are laying.

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

I think in spurts, can you tell?

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Same here. It's going to be a long process! My biggest problem is that I'm not terribly fond of black birds (except cochins & orps), but I know I have to incorporate them. Pooey.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Are Ameraucana's prone to prolapse? Or are we just lucky? Our White Ameraucana's have just started laying and sure enough we have one with a prolapse. Just curious

Thanks
Steve

 

[IggiMom]

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Quite accidentally, I crossed my Wheaten Ameracaunas with my Wellsummer Roo, since deceased, and got olive eggs. I don't much like them, but some do. One is rather interesting. It is olive with little brown spots.

Catherine

 

[Hens and Roos]

Two of our Wheaten girls have been laying now for a couple of weeks and one egg is a very pale blue and the other egg looks more of a light minty green color. They are with a Wheaten rooster that we hatched out, but I can't remember how blue the egg was he hatched from. If we hatch eggs from these girls is it possible to get a better blue color to the egg? And in trying to explain to 4-H kids what the ideal blue egg color should be using a crayon from a box of crayon what would you show them?

 

[Illia]

Go for a light sky blue crayon. . . Nothing in the Robin's egg region. You might get a better egg, depends on the rooster.

As for the prolapse issue - I've yet to have enough years on me to say, but so far, I've never had any health problems with my Ameraucanas except a cockerel I culled a while ago who hatched out with a couple curled toes. His entire body was really ugly, and for a blue Wheaten, he had recessive white.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Better, day-light pictures of the BW/W Ameraucanas.

Both of them have dirty behinds, but that will be taken care of this afternoon.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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