Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Goose and Fig]

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Oh, ok so I might have been wrong. But I saw some pictures on the internet with silver ameraucana roos with brown feathers on their wings.

Here's an example:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4341224853_cde9186dac.jpg

No, it's not the same roo.

That is also not a silver. Here is one from the ameraucana club site: http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook_files/lfsilverm.JPG

 

[just2rosey]

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They both have feathered legs- I don't think either is a sussex x ameraucana. And the feet are really yellow. You have cochins or brahmas?

The little partridge is a Bantam Partridge Cochin with very fuzzy feet. No doubt on the parentage there. The black chick is clean legged, the top half of the leg is black with yellow feet. I did question the yellow on the feet..... the sussex has white skinned/shanks so that didn't fit, but I was so sure I thought I knew who had laid that egg. It was a small brown egg, most of my brown egg layers are golden comets, a red sex link, but they lay HUGE eggs, often doouble yolkers. Out of the 5 to 7 brown eggs I get every day one is small. I found these small brown eggs still warm right after the sussex has left the nesting box. I thought they were hers, but I could be mistaken. I do have one hen I picked up at a swap that looks like the sex links, but hatched from a blue egg, she was a mystery chick for the lady I purchased her from. Maybe she is the one laying the small brown eggs.......

She has yellow feet... Well went to the chicken calculator, and that cross should produce blacks and blues, so that must be it. That would fit the phenotype expression I am seeing. Oh Well, it's still a very cute EE.

 

[pips&peeps]

It can't be half ameraucana, they have white skin. White skin is dominant to yellow skin and the chick would have white skin but carry the yellow skin gene.

So the ameraucana is not the sire.

Edited to add: Unless your "ameraucana" is an easter egger and carries the recessive yellow skin gene.

Do you have a picture of your ameraucanas?

 

[Illia]

Much agreed with happymtn and pips&peeps

 

[Goose and Fig]

Well I had some surprises myself this week- my color project chicks hatched and were not even close to what I was expecting. And the only one that hatched the correct color is clean-faced!

Thank goodness there is no shortage of people around here that like free chicks!

 

[jeremy]

What came out of the eggs Amy?

 

[Goose and Fig]

I had a couple that looked cuckoo, one that looks golden cuckoo marans with a single comb (that I kept) then a bunch of solid blacks and a chipmunk. Where the heck the chipmunk came from is beyond me. I must have put a wrong egg in there or something

Hope the people I sent eggs to have better luck with the colors than I did.

I set some more due mid January, and they are all from a lav hen and the cuckoo split roo so maybe we'll get more lavenders next time. And with beards!

I love your new avatar Jeremy! Can't wait til I can get my black girls out on some grass!!!!

 

[just2rosey]

pips&peeps :

It can't be half ameraucana, they have white skin. White skin is dominant to yellow skin and the chick would have white skin but carry the yellow skin gene.

So the ameraucana is not the sire.

Edited to add: Unless your "ameraucana" is an easter egger and carries the recessive yellow skin gene.

Do you have a picture of your ameraucanas?

HHMMM!! Ok, well this leads to questions, since I am still learning about all the genetics. I thought that leg color was a co-dominance situation since EE's end up often with green legs, yellow plus slate makes green. I also thought that yellow legs means yellow skin, is that right? I assume the yellow feet will end up green in the end. It is a possibility that my EE roo was the daddy not my pure blue. The EE roo was from eggs I purchased off of Ebay, he was blue out of "Lavender split" stock and he had silver leakage. I had planned to keep him to breed to my mixed laying flock because of these flaws. His legs were black, but his brother's were green.... This roo was killed by a predator while protecting his hens 2 or 3 weeks or so before I set these eggs. I guess he could have been the daddy, he was my dominant roo, but the timing is stretching it.
Lavender Split at 5 weeks of age. Potential sire on left, culled brother on right.

Other potential sire is a Whitmore bred Ameraucana. I know its not a great pic, but it is the only one I have taken. It was in quarantine the day after I picked him up. He did have a nice beard, but he plucked it out due to stress when he first arrived.

Due to the time lapse, I had thought this one was the sire. I had gotten this blue roo to use for my Ameraucana flock, he came from Whitmore Farm in Maryland, so I am sure he wouldn't have contributed a yellow leg/skin genes.

I hadn't planned on hatching these chicks, I didn't plan to start breeding and hatching until Feb. I hatched these out for my daughter, to console her after losing her pet cochin. I only had 4 cochin eggs and two of those had been in my fridge. I only put this egg in to better my odds of having two live chicks. With 18 hens and pullets out there, most of which are production layers from a hatchery, it is often hard to know which hens lay which eggs. I thought I knew, I appear to have been wrong. I don't have my chickens separated into breeding pens yet. They all free range together. I know the cochin roo isn't trying to mate any of LF hens, he is to low in the pecking order, all the hens push him around.​

 

[pips&peeps]

It was probably the lavender split then. Since his brother had yellow legs, I would assume he would have a recessive copy of the yellow skin gene and when bred to a bird with yellow skin wa la you have yellow skin in most of the offspring.

 

[OSUman]

I dont know the exact genetics of leg/ skin color but I do know that if you cross yellow with slate you will not get green/ willow legged birds.