Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[shesaredroan]

What someone calls the chickens in their back yards does not affect what I have in my back yard.

Thank you Kelly G for that well put statement!!!

At my house, if a chickens lays a blue egg she's an ameraucana, no matter where she came from or what color she is.
Any bird at my house that lays a greenish or green egg is a EE, no matter where she came from, no matter what the seller said she was.

 

[Illia]

Not complaining about it?

Yes it can go in circles but there are traits anyone should agree on, such as shank, sole, and skin color. Recessive traits.



That aside, on the chick matter, you're positive there are NO really dark blues around? As for barring/cuckoo I don't think it does that to black. Most I've seen and had hatch out as barred or cuckoo are just as "black" as the solids. But, maybe it's just me.

Parent pics help.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Not complaining about it?

Yes it can go in circles but there are traits anyone should agree on, such as shank, sole, and skin color. Recessive traits.



That aside, on the chick matter, you're positive there are NO really dark blues around? As for barring/cuckoo I don't think it does that to black. Most I've seen and had hatch out as barred or cuckoo are just as "black" as the solids. But, maybe it's just me.

Parent pics help.

Yeah- just because my sheepdog is white and fluffy doesn't mean I should call him a poodle.

Anyway- these are the parents of the blue-looking chick, except it was the cuckoo roo I posted pis of before:


All of the lavenders are from lav x lav or lav x black. One black is split for lav, and one black is from black x black. The roo is from lav x silver cuckoo.

No chance of fence jumping- they have been on a free range rotation, so no other roos were outside at the same time.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

This argument that goes on here about EE vs Ameraucana is so completely tiresome and uninteresting. There are many German Shepherds, Labradors, Chihuahuas, etc. registered each year - many, MANY are no closer to the breed standard than EE are to Ameraucanas, yet people still call them German Shepherds.

What someone calls the chickens in their back yards does not affect what I have in my back yard.

*yawn*

What else can we think/talk about?

If you find this so tiresome and uninteresting, perhaps you should find another thread to keep you entertained (EEs perhaps???? ) since this one is about Ameraucanas.

Just sayin'

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Does that mean I get to say that as long as it has 4 hooves, it is a Thoroughbred????

Ridiculous. Just because you want it to be something does NOT mean that it is. (Oh, that it was that easy.)

Although, clearly in your mind, what will be, will be.

I guess I should envy you ....

 

[jerryse]

Can somebody please assure me that I am not losing my mind?
Is it possible that myself, and another girl that had some of my project eggs (cuckoo split for lav roo over black and lavender hens) both just hatched blue chicks?

I have had blue marans and even cochin chicks that looked black at hatch, but never the other way around. I have them in with black orps and they are not the same color. Any idea what could be happening here? Can the cuckoo dilute the black chick down like that?

The first cuckoo I produced all hatched blue.They grew into the normal color.Since then I have produced both colors at day old.I have not figured out why.So no you are not crazy.

 

[Illia]

I know my Cuckoo Araucanas tend to throw weird confusing chicks when outcrossed to normal black; chicks look blue or cuckoo upon hatch then grow up normal, solid colors, who knows, perhaps it is the cuckoo doing something weird.

But confirm for me, are there any barred parents in this? Where are the barred chicks? This is a Lav Cuckoo project, right?

 

[Goose and Fig]

Quote:

Thank you!

I have never heard of this before. Phew!

 

[Goose and Fig]

I know my Cuckoo Araucanas tend to throw weird confusing chicks when outcrossed to normal black; chicks look blue or cuckoo upon hatch then grow up normal, solid colors, who knows, perhaps it is the cuckoo doing something weird.

But confirm for me, are there any barred parents in this? Where are the barred chicks? This is a Lav Cuckoo project, right?

The sire (not pictured) is visually barred.
I have had a few lavender chicks hatch with yellow head spots, one male that is feathering in with crazy solid white shoulders, and everything in between. Lots of culls- the marans is going to haunt me for some time.

 

[Illia]

Marans? Oh yeah, it will haunt you for a long time.


I think the pale looking one(s) are from the cuckoo. Does the cuckoo have any shiny green on it? Or are all the feathers pretty dull? How sharp is the contrast in barring?