Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[pips&peeps]

I dont think there is much wrong with the originators flock. She did state in her add that she is working on removing black from the wings. I do not know how closely related her flock is though.

So if I was to keep this cockeral, breed him to the pullets that I have, then choose the best cockeral out of what hatches. I could then put the "new cockeral over the original hens I have now, and not be to closely related?

Sorry that these are such newby questions, but I am just that when it comes to breeding chickens. lol

Thanks for your insight!

No clue what is meant by that. The only black you would want to remove on a wheaten would be in the hackles......

Who's line are they?​

 

[hipeatall]

pips&peeps :

That's too funny I just shipped some lavenders, black and blues to Texas.

Ohhh... Lavenders are on my short list... such a gorgeous color! I got these as a surprise for my son... he is in 4H and is hoping to be able to show some of these chicks when they grow up

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[PeasChisGuis]

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[cheryl98117]

pips&peeps :

I dont think there is much wrong with the originators flock. She did state in her add that she is working on removing black from the wings. I do not know how closely related her flock is though.

So if I was to keep this cockeral, breed him to the pullets that I have, then choose the best cockeral out of what hatches. I could then put the "new cockeral over the original hens I have now, and not be to closely related?

Sorry that these are such newby questions, but I am just that when it comes to breeding chickens. lol

Thanks for your insight!

No clue what is meant by that. The only black you would want to remove on a wheaten would be in the hackles......

Who's line are they?​

Chickielady and I went in on an order through cpartist. I very well could be saying the wrong word for the area of the bird. The area I am referring too is shown in the earlier pic I posted. Across the back of this pullet is quite a few black feathers coming in. Not the wing itself, but more like what would be the shoulder area. Please bear with me, I am trying to learn.​

 

[pips&peeps]

That would be the hackles.

I would let that pullet grow out a bit, even though she does has some errant black and some black in her hackles, she has some good qualities that she could pass on to her offspring. Most of the black could also be lost when her adult plumage comes in.

That dark undercoat usually translates into nice color in the wing tips and tail feathers.

ETA: she also has nice leg color

 

[cpartist]

That would be me

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I have stated in my auctions that I have mainly been working on size and type,
but have made some progress in getting more black in the tail on the females, and less black
(clean hackles) on the males.

...maybe that is what you are referring to

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I have seen a lot of black, (or gray in the BW) in some of the juvie pullets body that is
gone by the 20 week molt. As Jean says, I would just watch her...some of these have turned
out to be my better colored adults.

I just had to pick 8 out of 14 22 week olds to go into a breeding pen. They were
all very consistent at this point for size and width, but two have almost solid colored
tails and clean hackles

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Half of them are already laying at 22 weeks and were dropping them on the ground in the
grow out pen

 

[erica.godinez]

sorry to interup but i just hatched 9 Ameraucana eggs and i just wanted to share and let me know what u think

sorry but the camera does not do any justice to the color

 

[cheryl98117]

Thank you pips&peeps the hackles are exactly what I was trying to refer too. lol I will eventually get it right.

cpartist! I love these birds! This one that I have been asking about is the only one with so much black. The rest are pretty clean. But oh so hard to photograph, they dont hold still for very long. lol

This is where I messed up. lol Sorry I got it mixed up.
I have stated in my auctions that I have mainly been working on size and type,
but have made some progress in getting more black in the tail on the females, and less black
(clean hackles) on the males. ...maybe that is what you are referring to .

 

[cpartist]

Cheryl, when some of my second gen showed the darker body splotches I was weirded out.
Now that I am on the forth gen I have learned to wait to the 20 week point on color, and at
this point they have all colored out well, nice solid slightly darker wing triangles and creamy wheaten body color,
although the ones that seem to have the best tails are more ginger colored ...a few of the
pullets have had a bit of ticking in the hackles, several with not much tail color...but I am making
progress, I think, and will get more selective.

With the males I am looking for clean hackles, but have selected breeders with some slight black
in the hackles over clean hackled as they had better type. JMHO, but better to lock in good
type first.

As far as using your cockerel....I have 4 pens of these, a combination of two different lines.
I have found one line throws better males and the other better females and have mixed
the two in three pens and have kept one pure for one line. I am putting parents over offspring or
offspring over parents. I have just reconfigured my breeding pens and will be test hatching soon.
There were so few breeders for these originally that they may be all close in some regard, but the chance of a direct
brother/sister mating with these is possible, but not with all your girls. I camp out by the nest
boxes now when doing my own hatches to identify and mark eggs, but this is not
practical to do with every batch of eggs I send out.

It is always good to have 2 cockerels though and if you have access to another I think
you should go for it but keep your other and do some matings...identify and mark eggs
at hatching, toe punch or band offspring.

If it were too easy, it wouldn't be FUN

 

[jeremy]

Luanne, the 3 pullets I have growing out from your stock are beautiful. I look at them everyday and I'm very impressed with how nice they already look. They're in the same grow out pen with my W/BW/SW chicks from Paul Smith and I can always tell them apart. Their beards/muffs are HUGE. They looks like little barn owls.

I'm very excited to see how they mature and I do hope to be able to include them in some breedings later this year.