Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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That chick pic is hilarious!! And that roo is a LOOKER!!!!

 

[Noncentzter]

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No feathered shanks here...

 

[Muggsmagee]

Feathered shanks have been popping up from various breeders. I highly doubt Wayne Meredith had any sort of crossing with their Wheatens to Salmon Faverolles. ChickenStalker ended up with a few feather shanked lavs from Blehm, and I ended up with Blacks and Blues from a reputable breeder that also had feathered shanks...I was told they culled chicks from Paul Smith that showed feathered legs. So where is it coming from? Who knows? But it isn't isolated to one color...Lav, Black, Blue and now Wheaten have popped up with it.

Anybody remember all the freakazoid White Ams that came from Wheaten Ams last year?

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

This is weird, I got a Black AM chick from CC that has feathered shanks.

I also got one that doesn't have any muffs. Both chicks are black?

 

[jsimon]

Absence of beards and muffs is not that uncommon because it is a dominant triat, so a heterozygous bird will still show a beard and muffs, but if two heterozygous parents are bred together 1/4 of the offspring will be clean faced.

 

[Hens and Roos]

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Good Luck

hope you have a great hatch and post some pictures to share

 

[tellynpeep]

Sooooo.... If I cross a Wheaten rooster with my Blue hen, would that be an EE? Both parents are pure Ameraucanas (and gorgeous!) The resulting color, as I understand it, would not be an accepted Ameraucana color, but does that make the offspring officially NOT Ameraucana?
More confused than before!
Mary

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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You could call them "Not to Standard Ameraucana"...

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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If you're going to hatch just to sell them, sell them as EEs. If you are going to hatch for yourself to work on a specific color, they are "project Ameraucanas", but any that you sell to others, I would sell as EEs. JMO.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Good Luck

hope you have a great hatch and post some pictures to share

I've been dying to see pictures of these 'lil guys!!