Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Ivywoods]

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Speaking of buffs, I have one buff that was a packing peanut from Blehm's. It's the only buff I have. I don't know yet if it is a roo or pullet.

Is there another variety of ameraucana that I would be able to cross this one with and still come up with something worthwhile? If not, if it's a pullet, I will just put her in the layer pen, or perhaps use "it" with my marans to make olive eggers.

You could cross your buffs back to wheatens to improve the buff line. The F1 would be a split and you would breed it back to the buff....

Thanks. I do have some wheatons. They weren't what I originally ordered, but they are really growing on me. The way they are feathering out is so cool. They also seem very calm and curious. Also, it's nice to be able to tell males and females apart.

 

[chickee]

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Funny you should mention that . . Here is the silver chick you told me would feather in buff. He has the best buff coloring of my rooster chicks

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/54909_chicks_buff_bw.jpg

I know! It's fun to watch them change though. I have a bunch more of Ramey's eggs due this weekend seen as how I got all boys last time. And have a few eggs coming from Jean too

I'm glad I got started with this color - and its nice to see other people with them too.

How fun to be getting more buff eggs to hatch!

I love my buffs. They are so friendly!

Of the 9 I hatched from Wayne Meredith's eggs all of them have correct color and combs. About half are roosters. I have one very beautiful buff rooster from eggs I hatched from Jean that I am keeping to breed to the Meredith pullets. According to Jean, he is sired by a rooster from Ramey. I'm looking forward to working with this color

 

[tgrlily]

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The White Ameraucanas are my favorite! I started off just wanting White, ended up buying Lav, Split & Wheaten. Now I'm selling everything but the White & the Lav/wheaten Project F1 chicks that are growing out. I'll see what I get from them, but I'd be happy with just the Whites.

 

[BooBear]

Just showing off. Realize the girls are pet quality but they are so sweet. Cinnimon is trying to sneak up on them. He is pretending to forage; however, the girls got him figured out already.

Cotton is growing into a handsome fella. Candy has her head up in the back ground. They are the cutest pair at 4 weeks.

 

[Ivywoods]

Isn't it amazing how much they change in such a short time!

Cute , cute wheatie pictures!

 

[Goose and Fig]

Is it just me, or do juvenile wheatens always look like their picture could be above the definition for "mischief" ?

 

[onthespot]

Someone posted on another thread asking about the sport bird, thought I would post the further info here as well. Sorry if it is redundant.
The pair shown below, the hen, which shows no leakage, was the grandmother of the sport. The rooster behind her is a clutchmate, hatched from the same pair, by Robin Taber in Riverside. She told me they were John Blehm and Duane Urch bloodlines. I have no reason to doubt her, and she no reason to lie to me. She is not zoned for roosters, so she does her breeding under very controlled conditons, and does not mix her flocks, keeps good records. Each egg you get from her has the date and initials and numbers of the parents and what pen.

I used the splash rooster with mahogany leakage over a mixed pen for blue olive eggers. The hen I lent back to Robin to breed to her lavender ameraucana, John Blehm direct hatch, because she liked the size of this hen and her eggs were fantastic blue colored, and large. When she came back, I was able to get four eggs to hatch from that lavender rooster. A year later I only had one pair left from that cross. I had lost my ameraucana roo in a heat wave, so I used the only rooster I had, a blue, split to lavender, out of a hen that had a brother with mahogany leakage. Here is the grandparent hen and her clutchmate brother. They were very big also, like the sport. The blue roo from the lavender cross is small and has an unimpressive beard. He hatched from a very blue egg, and seems able to produce size, even if he himself does not have it.

There are three hens in the pen with the unimpressive blue split lav rooster. One is his full sister. One is also a blue hen with faint silver leakage around her eyes and brow, that I KNOW hatched from a white hen from pips n peeps, fathered by the rooster with mahogany leakage. The white hen was in my EE pen, just because she didn't "fit" anywhere else at the time. That is all I know about the background of the sport rooster. The other is the smaller splash hen, but she lays a smaller egg, very blue, and this chick was very big on hatch day, I don't see him coming out of such a small egg. I am sure he is either from the split lav blue hen, or the split white blue hen with silver leakage. They both lay big eggs.

 

[deserthens]

I have only one Ameraucana hen and recently purchased 7 new pullet chicks. I was wondering if there is any way to know what color egg they will lay.I am obviously not familiar with the particulars of the breed. And don't know if feather color indicates what color the eggs will be.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Onthespot- are you saying that splash roo is the sport's father? That would explain where the red came from. Not sure if I read it right though- the coffee hasn't really kicked in yet

Deserthens- I have a feeeling you probably purchased Easter Eggers. And feather color has nothing to do with egg color.

 

[Mahonri]

Patty,

Gorgeous splash roo... too bad he has the red leakage.... but he's still gorgeous.