Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Jferlisi]

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Lavender is recessive, so you have to have 2 visually lavender parents for the chicks to be visually lavender. What you will get with your trio:

black roo x blue hen = 50% black, 50% lavender

black roo x lavender hen = 100% black/lavender splits, meaning all the chicks will be visually black, but carry the lavender gene. If you kept a cockerel from this breeding and bred him back to his mother, you would have 50% black/lavender splits and 50% visually lavender chicks.

IF you hatch from both hens, you will want to know whose egg is whose so you know which black chicks are true black and which are splits.

In my female black/lavender splits, there is a lack of the beetle green sheen, but the males still have it, so it's not a 100% tip off.

Congrats on your new birds, by the way!!

Thanks you both for the informative response. This is my new girl Phoebe.

This is my roo buford

 

[ChicksterJo]

Here are my white Ameraucanas c/o Tricia. They are such adorable chicks but they are getting too rowdy for indoors.

They don't have names yet (except for the one that sounds different, #4) but I will probably put a band on their legs (the pullets that I keep) so I know which is which. Very sorry for the blurry pictures; they don't want to stay still and they didn't want to get off my fingers! I'd appreciate anyone's input - my guesses on gender are just as good as anyone else's!

#1

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#3

#4

 

[upthecreek]

I had no idea that (black roo X blue hen would produce **50% *lavender* and 50% Black .............
wow




Quote:
Lavender is recessive, so you have to have 2 visually lavender parents for the chicks to be visually lavender. What you will get with your trio:

black roo x blue hen = 50% black, 50% lavender

black roo x lavender hen = 100% black/lavender splits, meaning all the chicks will be visually black, but carry the lavender gene. If you kept a cockerel from this breeding and bred him back to his mother, you would have 50% black/lavender splits and 50% visually lavender chicks.

IF you hatch from both hens, you will want to know whose egg is whose so you know which black chicks are true black and which are splits.

In my female black/lavender splits, there is a lack of the beetle green sheen, but the males still have it, so it's not a 100% tip off.

Congrats on your new birds, by the way!!

 

[dak]

Quote:
Lavender is recessive, so you have to have 2 visually lavender parents for the chicks to be visually lavender. What you will get with your trio:

black roo x blue hen = 50% black, 50% lavender

black roo x lavender hen = 100% black/lavender splits, meaning all the chicks will be visually black, but carry the lavender gene. If you kept a cockerel from this breeding and bred him back to his mother, you would have 50% black/lavender splits and 50% visually lavender chicks.

IF you hatch from both hens, you will want to know whose egg is whose so you know which black chicks are true black and which are splits.

In my female black/lavender splits, there is a lack of the beetle green sheen, but the males still have it, so it's not a 100% tip off.

Congrats on your new birds, by the way!!

They don't.

 

[La Mike]

I have never gotten a lavender from a black roo over blue hens.

 

[klf73]

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black roo x lav hen = 100% lav split visual lav chicks
black roo x blue hen = 50% black and 50% blue
To obtain visual lav chicks you will need to take a roo from the F1 black x lav and cross back to lav hen, results with that cross will be 50%lav split visual black and 50% lav
I wouldn't even put the blue in as you won't know if the F1 roo is lav split because she will produce black chicks, but they won't be lav split....
only way that would work is if you know what color egg each hen lays. I know some of mine but not all.....if they are too similar you will just be wasting your time, IMO

 

[SteveH]

Thanks to a post by knjnnm, I used this link to find that one of the only 4 retailers in my state was less than 20 miles away. The business listed was actually an applicator instead of a retailer, but supplies it to a nearby greenhouse that retails it. I sprayed this garlic spray in my coop, pen, and surrounding area; it worked nearly instantly. Home made garlic spray has not been effective. It remains to be seen if it works as long as touted, but today is the first day my chickens left the safety of the high velocity fan since this plague began. More detail at the seconf link.

http://www.mosquitobarrier.com//

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6491659#p6491659

 

[vegaschick]

I have a few questions that I'm sure are general knowledge and have been talked to death on this thread ... but I like to go to the source to learn!

What's the deal with Wheaten and Blue Wheaten AMs? How does the cross of the two work and do you only get Wheaten and/or Blue Wheaten from that cross? Also, does that work the same with Blue and Blue Wheaten? My inquiring mind needs to know. Please help me figure this thing out. Again, I'm sorry if this is a subject that is brought up every few pages. I don't have time to go through all those posts to find out. THANKS!!!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Exactly the same way Blue, Black and Splash work. Have you seen the BBS Cochins or Orps? You breed blue to blue and you get some blue, black, and splash chicks? Blue wheaten to Blue wheaten will give you Blue, Black( just called wheaten), and splash wheaten.

 

[klf73]

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blue to blue wheaten will give you black,blue or splash with wheaten leakage(chicks are those colors with brownish tinge on face right now)...I have some chicks from that cross, they are EE's because they are non standard color and will not breed true
blue wheaten to blue wheaten will give you splash wheaten, blue wheaten and wheaten