Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Illia]

I really, really have to ask. . . WHY. Easter Eggers, or the quechua, naturally came with duckwing patterning, even some silvers in there, so why did we make a silly move like add Leghorn?

 

[FarmerVal]

Hi ya'll

I posted on here a couple of weeks ago now about my "white wheaten". I just got some more photos of her today (though none are really good). I'm thinking maybe it's not a "white wheaten" and instead a very pale wheaten and possibly even female...

Also, I think my little guys are now big enough to sex. I'm thinking I hatched out three boys and 1 girl.

Can you give me opinions? I'd post in the 'What breed or gender is this?' forum, but I don't seem to have much luck with identifying this breed.

Chick 1

Chick 2

Chick 3

Chick 4

 

[EweSheep]

Can anyone help with my post I mentioned earlier? If not, that's ok!

 

[SteveH]

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Just a guess, but probably because they would have had to breed a gazillion EEs before coming up with a silver duckwing that even came close visually to the SOP for that color, let alone a good genotype that would produce good color in both sexes; where as even a hatchery quality Leghorn or Game, bred with a black Ameraucana, would start showing acceptably colored silver duckwings in the F2s.

 

[ItsAZOO32]

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Pretty birds!! I am no help but I was just in Lebanon, Va for spring break at the end of March

. My brother and his wife work at AT&T there

 

[LarissaCluck]

Ok now that my lavender "kids" are 6 weeks plus would you all mind confirming my gender suspicions? I mostly want to know so I can give them permanent names

One and two! Looks like pullet on the left with the pale not yet developed comb and cockrel on the right with the brighter comb?

Number 3- 50% bigger than the other two. Feathering in twice as fast too! I am pretty certain its a cockrel, the comb is very pink and pronounced now. Not a great picture but you can see the comb.

 

[SteveH]

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All sorts of problems crop out of solidly bred lines, a layer of greenish colored eggs is only one. If I could live with the egg color, and she's a superior hen in other respects, I'd breed her to a roo from a different mating that hatched from a good colored, blue egg.

 

[jeb251]

hi again all, I have a color question, what would the offspring from a black roo and wheaton hen, I am trying to find a way to get the egg color into my blacks and eventually my whites, so is it possible to breed the wheaton out an black in?

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Don't do that. There are plenty of blacks and whites out there with excellent egg color. When you cross with wheatens you will probably end up with red leakage popping up indefinitely.

 

[pips&peeps]

I would say get some better blacks. You can improve your white line with them too. I plan to breed my whites to blacks soon, to improve egg color and get rid of the barring gene they are carrying.

My black line has very good color, and most of them I have seen do too. Occassionally I will get a throw back with crappy egg color, but I won't breed from it.