Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[jeb251]

I have good color now, but those wheatons are fantastic, my whites are from your line jean and I have had my black for a long time, already started with the black to white cross last year but I sure soups like to see the darker blue in the es
eggs sooner, but I guess I'll just follow the rules, lol

 

[poularde]

I am not sure if my post got missed or maybe no one knows. Please if anyone knows let me know.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6256821#p6256821

 

[pips&peeps]

That was me.

Let me know if you would like some more hatching eggs.

Sorry I missed your post.

 

[poularde]

Thanks so much! When my incubator is empty I will get in contact with you.

 

[huf]

Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas – 7 weeks old – Gender??
Back for another round of opinions now that these cuties are 7 weeks old and we have to rehome some of our chicks next week. I think they are both girls!!

#1 – This one has more variation on color all over…more darker (blackish) tones in her feathers. Her feathers also do not lay as smoothly as #2…does anyone know if she’ll outgrow that…will her feathers eventually lay flat? Any thoughts on what her coloring will be when she if full grown?

#2

Thanks in advance!
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[Goose and Fig]

Girl x 2!

 

[huf]

Quote:
Thanks HappyMtn!

 

[wannabchick]

Hey everyone..
Question for ya.. how do you know if your chicks are wheatens? or blue wheatens? yes I will post photos later.. their uploading now as we speak..

but I think the breeder I got them from I bought wheatens.. but then she said she would also throw in some blue wheatens?
so I am really confused
I also got eggs from a different breeder that week too and her eggs were to be just wheaten amerecaunas.. but now I am all confused

I have 1 month olds now and they crack me up.. very busy little ones.. dodging and running all over past the peacocks and the other chickens.. its really funny... their smart and super fast..

I have 11/ one is still downstairs in a box.. I dont know what to do with that one, he/she has a serious eye poking problem/ bad!! so I have to keep it seperate till I find a home.. or someone to do something with it

so the 10 I have.. some are super blotchy... and some lightly blotchy and more solid colored.. and theirs those that have an inbetween/ solid with some blotchy..

are the super blotchy then boys????
hope everyone is rockin and have a great week

 

[wannabchick]

I am so trying to learn how to tell the difference between boy wheaten/and blue wheaten amerecaunas and the girls

Okay heres some lovely photos for you.. and me, I see/ blotchy ones.. really blothchy... and then not so blotchy/ and yet the one on the right has alot more cream to it..and lower area more blotchy and yet the one on the right.. super blotchy different colors, for instance heres more of a close up of what I mean by about 4 out of my group look like this

#1 the blotchy one is that a boy? and the one to its left /the more tan one a girl?

#2 in this photo is the blotchy a boy, and the other a girl?

#3 In this photo are these two girls?

#4 In these three photos, I snapped/ you will see one blotchy, one not/ and then them together
is the blotchy a boy? and the other a girl? whoops think I duplicated it.. but look at the photo then of the two on the tree limb? comparing?

And I love this photo they just have to follow my peacock

And how does one tell the difference in my 11/ do I have wheatens? or blue wheatens? lol

Now let me know If I am doing this right by the blotchy colors
I say boys? am I correct, Am I sexing the right way??????

#5

#6

Girl Boy Boy.. looking straight on.. left to right?? am I right/if you only looking at the ones standing on the bottom of the wood
#7

 

[Goose and Fig]

You're spot on with sexing the chicks. Any that have black will be wheaten. If they have blue in the same places instead- those are blue wheatens.

We found out today that our Meredith chicks that sat at the PO up north for almost 2 days were sent back. No planes coming into TN today. Poor chicks have been through so much.