Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[jeremy]

Why Brown Reds Illia?

 

[Illia]

Sadly, not for actual purebred breeding

(horrible I know, since they're rare enough as is!) I'll be using them for the 3rd generation of a color project of mine. So I'm not looking for show winners, - mainly looking for birds carrying the E^R gene and with good weight, good egg color, and full beard/muffs. The rest of the traits matter too of course but not as much.

 

[dixieland]

Mike Gilbert raises LF brown reds, and he is super nice to work with!

 

[ChickenKid11]

Hey I have Ameraucanas also I could not figure out how to put them from the upload section to this but you guys have some beautiful birds.

 

[Cynthia12]

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I tried twice..after the second time...won't again. Habitability is very low..at least it was for me..and I usually have pretty good hatches, even from shipped eggs, that I know are from reputable folks, like most on here at BYC.

 

[cheryl98117]

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Could you clarify this abreviation for me. I'm sorry but I just dont recognise it... Thanks Tailfeathers!

 

[cheryl98117]

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I call my Wheaten pullets free loaders! They had just started to lay, and then quit. Now even with a light on in the coop I still havnt gotten any eggs from them in over a week... So very frustrating...

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I have 8 W/BW Ameraucanas and 4 started laying and then stopped and the other 4 are a bit younger and squatting now but still no eggs, I haven't gotten any from mine in weeks. I'm starting to think I won't again until spring.

 

[cheryl98117]

Ok this might be a newby question, and fairly obvious. But I figured I would run my thoughts by you all first.

Am I right in staying away from breeding my wheaten Am girls to another color veriety? Say like a bbs roo? That would just totally mess up the color right? Or is it possible to breed it back out. But even then, if it is possible to breed the "off" color back out. It would probably take a few generations, and still no garentee that it would not "pop" back up in the line. Correct? Or am I wrong?

Ive been having issues with my Wheaten roo. He's turned quite aggresive, will flat out run across the property to attack my daughter. Plus even though he is doing his "job" with the girls, none of the eggs are fertile...

Ive been offered a Blue roo, and a cockeral that is mixed B/BW... Im very hesitant to mix the color verieties, as I want properly colored W/BW's... Am I right to not cross the colors?

 

[Illia]

Crossing the colors in the first generation will get you what many will consider Easter Eggers; they'll look very convincingly like Brown-Reds, however down the road it is indeed possible to pop back to straight black or Wheaten, my best advice is to go with Wheatens since blacks can easily hide recessive genes, especially in females.


The nice thing is that the only difference between Blues/Blacks and Blue Wheatens/Wheatens is that one is E/E and the other is e^Wh/e^Wh. So when breeding them you either get Black, Wheaten, or a cross that mocks Brown-Red.


I don't know if it will wreck the future Wheatens color much (underfluff color, amount of black, etc) But most Wheatens are already not show winning birds, so, yeah. . . .

My advice is just that if you want to breed back to Blue/Black, do it with hard culling in mind.