Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Goose and Fig]

I wish somebody could come over here and see the legs on this lav cuckoo pullet I have growing out. Slate as slate can be.Its not a wash- they are solid. Hoping to get a boy next time and see if its different, as we might expect.

I don't know how to put pictures up either. I still have to figure out where my uploads are.....

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

Amy go to your profile and find your uploads and open that album. Try right clicking a picture and "copy" then paste it to the message reply area. Mine asks me if I want to allow something and inserts the picture after I click "allow".

 

[DMRippy]

I wish somebody could come over here and see the legs on this lav cuckoo pullet I have growing out. Slate as slate can be.Its not a wash- they are solid. Hoping to get a boy next time and see if its different, as we might expect.

I don't know how to put pictures up either. I still have to figure out where my uploads are.....

If they are on your computer you don't have to upload them anymore. At the top of the editor when you reply is an image of a picture, just click it and select your picture and submit and that is it. just like in your emails really.

 

[GA_in_GA]

They are the same. Some lines are based on EE and some are birchen, but both are blacks and both can be used to improve lavenders, if the blacks are good quality. Once a black bird is crossed to a lavender bird, you get more black birds known as "splits", and they are visually black in color carrying the lavender gene hidden.

When bred to each other, splits will produce
25% lav offspring
50% split offspring
25% black offspring
and you won't be able to visually tell the blacks from the splits because they look the same.

If you breed a split to a lavender bird, you will produce
50% lav offspring
50% splits offspring
and you can be certain that every black chick produced by this cross, does, in fact, carry the lavender gene.

Thank you. I appreciate your thorough reply.

 

[sewandgrow]

I swear I have started carrying my notebook with me out to the pens to jot things down. I can't seem to keep track of all the things to look for in my head. Harry gave me a list of things to look for when I was trying to decide who to keep & who to let go of his Lavenders so I printed it out & took it ouside with me & legbanded the keepers. I have his Lavenders completely separate from the B/B/S Ams. My Ams are from Crystal Creek, Paul Smith, Christine Kitsch in PA & Robin Davis in Washington. I will have to do some studying to now know who to breed to who...............LOL Gosh I wish I had started this when I was young.....too late for that now................... It is what it is & I will do the best I can.............LOL

 

[jerryse]

I have found that lavender enhances leg color.Dominate white also enhances.My reading says it dilutes melanin but my experience says the opposite.I had a smokey dominate white that you could see faint cuckoo on.Her legs were very dark.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I have found that lavender enhances leg color.Dominate white also enhances.My reading says it dilutes melanin but my experience says the opposite.I had a smokey dominate white that you could see faint cuckoo on.Her legs were very dark.

That is great news- so I know I am not crazy! I will try and get a pic today- the snow is making it nice and bright in here

 

[Goose and Fig]

Hey thanks for the photo help you guys- my "updates" aren't coming in like they used to.

 

[DMRippy]

Hey thanks for the photo help you guys- my "updates" aren't coming in like they used to.

Ok that is something you can change. At the bottom you can click the subscribe and it will ask you do you want immediate, daily, site only and other I can't remember. Set it to immediate and you will get emails. There was a way to change all your subscriptions.... on profile tab I think....

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Toward the top of the page, underneath the tabs, right hand side, small line of text that says "Subscriptions". Click on that. It will take you to a page where you can make LOADS of choices concerning your subscriptions.