Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[phasianidae]

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If you breed Blue Wheaten to Blue Wheaten you will get 50% Blue Wheaten, 25% Black Wheaten, and 25% Splash Wheaten.

 

[dak]

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Too cool.
(Wish I knew how to find my cousins in Greece)

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Yes, lavender is recessive. If you breed lavender to lavender, you will get 100% lavender chicks. If you breed a visually black bird that carries lavender (a split) to a lavender bird, you will get 50% lavender and 50% splits. If you breed a split to a split, you will get some splits, some true black, and some lavender. You do not NEED to keep the lavender gene in your black flock unless your goal is to breed splits or lavenders in the future.

Blacks are used with the lavenders to improve many things in the lavenders that still need work, including body type, feather quality, and egg color/size.

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

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And the colors are beautiful! On the hens, where there was black or blue ther will be pure white. Very Lovely. The rooseters look like this:

 

[huntinwidow]

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Yes, lavender is recessive. If you breed lavender to lavender, you will get 100% lavender chicks. If you breed a visually black bird that carries lavender (a split) to a lavender bird, you will get 50% lavender and 50% splits. If you breed a split to a split, you will get some splits, some true black, and some lavender. You do not NEED to keep the lavender gene in your black flock unless your goal is to breed splits or lavenders in the future.

Blacks are used with the lavenders to improve many things in the lavenders that still need work, including body type, feather quality, and egg color/size.

So splits are only black, It is not possible to have a blue split?

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

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Too cool.
(Wish I knew how to find my cousins in Greece)

PM-ing you!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Yes, lavender is recessive. If you breed lavender to lavender, you will get 100% lavender chicks. If you breed a visually black bird that carries lavender (a split) to a lavender bird, you will get 50% lavender and 50% splits. If you breed a split to a split, you will get some splits, some true black, and some lavender. You do not NEED to keep the lavender gene in your black flock unless your goal is to breed splits or lavenders in the future.

Blacks are used with the lavenders to improve many things in the lavenders that still need work, including body type, feather quality, and egg color/size.

So splits are only black, It is not possible to have a blue split?

Sure you can, it just isn't done AS MUCH, because it can be hard to tell lavender from blue chicks for the first bit until they start feathering in heavier. I say AS MUCH, because I'm doing that very thing right now, but these babies are just for me, so nobody will have to try to sort chicks but me.

 

[PeasChisGuis]

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Yes, lavender is recessive. If you breed lavender to lavender, you will get 100% lavender chicks. If you breed a visually black bird that carries lavender (a split) to a lavender bird, you will get 50% lavender and 50% splits. If you breed a split to a split, you will get some splits, some true black, and some lavender. You do not NEED to keep the lavender gene in your black flock unless your goal is to breed splits or lavenders in the future.

Blacks are used with the lavenders to improve many things in the lavenders that still need work, including body type, feather quality, and egg color/size.

Thank you so much for answering that, I understand completely now

 

[PeasChisGuis]

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Yes, lavender is recessive. If you breed lavender to lavender, you will get 100% lavender chicks. If you breed a visually black bird that carries lavender (a split) to a lavender bird, you will get 50% lavender and 50% splits. If you breed a split to a split, you will get some splits, some true black, and some lavender. You do not NEED to keep the lavender gene in your black flock unless your goal is to breed splits or lavenders in the future.

Blacks are used with the lavenders to improve many things in the lavenders that still need work, including body type, feather quality, and egg color/size.

Thank you so much for answering that, I understand completely now

One more thing, I ordered some Ameraucana eggs out of a Blue (roo) on black and black lavender split (hens) will I be able to tell the difference in the chicks? Black from black split or blue from lavender?
If you can shoot some example color pictures I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL!!!! I raise B/B/S so am familiar with those.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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How cool is THAT?!?! I hope he gets a pair, at least! Even if they just have one they can still make EEs and maybe even olive eggers.