Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[pips&peeps]

That is a silver variety ameraucana. The name is not indicative of the exact color of plumage, her feathers are brown.

Hatcheries do not sell purebred ameraucanas because it is too costly for them to raise. Each individual color must be seperately mated to maintain the color line and that is too costly for the hatchery so they can sell the chicks so inexpensively.

Here is another photo of a "silver" variety of bird, she has alot of "vermiculation" in her feathers though:

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Those "Silver" Ameraucanas probably throw a lot of people. I myself have an EE that could pass for a Silver but she is an EE. Thanks, Jean, for the explanation on why the hatcheries are selling so many EEs. I've wondered about that myself!

 

[Chickenrandomness]

the color silver mostly applys to the rooster who is a very nice white and black

 

[SteveH]

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One or two hatcheries are now offering true Ameraucanas; I can't vouch for their quality.

The silver Ameraucanas are silver duckwinged, the males and females are very dissimular, and they're the only Ameraucana variety hatched with the familiar EE stripes; it can be confusing to someone new to the breed.

 

[SteveH]

For those raising Ameraucanas near streams or rivers:

A high velocity fan is working well to blow the buffalo gnats away from my few remaining birds.

For those familiar with bug zappers, you know most bugs get fried then fall through the grid and out the bottom; but some get hung up and you have to clean it some days. My bug zapper is doing a better job than I thought on the buffalo gnats.................................... the mosquitoes are bad here, but these can't all be mosquitoes.

Clean bug zapper, with the florescent bulb that attracts bugs showing.

What mine looked like today before cleaning.

 

[klf73]

wow Steve...that's a lotta bugs

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Dang! That is NOT nice.

 

[pips&peeps]

The silver variety of ameraucana is no longer the silver duckwing. It is just silver and is the same description used by silver dutch birds on page 248 of the new standard.

 

[SteveH]

pips&peeps :

The silver variety of ameraucana is no longer the silver duckwing. It is just silver and is the same description used by silver dutch birds on page 248 of the new standard.

Geneticly, isn't it a silver duckwing? If not, what would the difference be? [I'm still in the process of trying to learn color genetics.]​

 

[pips&peeps]

If you are using the genetic calculator yes, silver duckwing. But when referring to color description for correct plumage use the standard.