Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[GA_in_GA]

Feathering in like a boy, IF your birds don't have K. If they have the K gene too early to tell.

Would you mind explaining a bit about the K gene. Thank you.

 

[Christie Rhae]

I have a splash pullet who my daughter had named Princess Buttercup (from The Princess Bride movie). She was blood thirsty. (yes I fed her all the protein she could eat) She did not just pluck feathers, she would hunt, grab a tail feather, tug and pull and shake her head like a pit bull until she broke the quill and got blood flowing. I renamed her Princess Twilight (from ya know....vampire movie). Even with peepers on she could still hunt. I isolated her for weeks. Then in my big coop/ chicken reshuffle I put her back in with other pullets, pullets she did not know. I saw her go after tail feathers on my favorite favorite wheaten girl and I immediately put the peepers back on Miss Twilight and watched..... She seems to stay by herself a lot now and has not been hunting or plucking anyone. But she has a small beard and muff to go along with her nasty habit so I will never use her. If she lays a nice colored egg and behaves herself she can stay with the layers but that little girl did not know how close she came to being my first kill. lol
I hate picking!

 

[Tailfeathers]

Aggression is passes down by the hen not the rooster. make note of which hens the aggressive birds come from and then remove hen from the hatching eggs pool.

That's an interesting statement and is contrary to everything I've ever seen or read. Can you share your source with us?

Personally, everything I've read or heard talked about the roosters being the culprit when it comes to aggressive birds but I've always sort of thought that both parents likely contribute to it. It makes no sense to me that personality woulld be a sex-linked gene or something.

God Bless,

 

[Lark Rise]

Here are my first BBS eggs.....from 3 hens....not blue, but still pretty. Is this an acceptable Ameracauna egg color?

 

[Christie Rhae]

Here are my first BBS eggs.....from 3 hens....not blue, but still pretty. Is this an acceptable color?

Those are so pretty! They are from your BBS birds? They are a little greener than my BBS first eggs. They are from the same breeder that mine came from right? Egg on right is my BBS pullet- egg on left is wheaten.
I want eggs the color of yours in my basket too!




edit: don't know my left from my right...lol

 

[BarnGoddess01]

I have a splash pullet who my daughter had named Princess Buttercup (from The Princess Bride movie). She was blood thirsty. (yes I fed her all the protein she could eat) She did not just pluck feathers, she would hunt, grab a tail feather, tug and pull and shake her head like a pit bull until she broke the quill and got blood flowing.

Sounds exactly like my Marans pullet.

However, increased meat based protein does seem to be slowing her down. Her sister looks like a naked neck right now (sleeps beside her on the roost) as does her favourite roo!

 

[bantiehen]

Here is Skye my black Ameraucana he's changed these last few months gotten cuter and more handsomer
I was trying to get a good picture of his face but got the neck instead and on the back of the neck the feathers are long like a roosters
here you can see the tufts

he moved
one just to show his feet and legs to show ya that they are black. Still a rooster?? or a hen???

 

[Goose and Fig]

Yep, pickers are often pullets. I thankfully don't have any anymore, I think my picker a while ago was either a Wheatie (but all the wheaties were plucked) or a Marans I sold. . . However just recently within the last few days my EE pullet has been plucking my EE cockere's beard, obviously in this case though from boredom. I need only those two to breed, and so I must pen them separately and as much as I hate it like they do, the pen is small, so, the pullet got very bored possibly a little stressed, and plucked his beard.


As for the crele colored bird, whatever the parents are, they've gotta be either black/blue/splash/lavender carrying recessive duckwing or truly duckwing or duckwingxwheatens. Was this chick born from the Lavender pen, or someone else? Wherever it was born, if there's solid colored hens around, someone's hiding a gene. Do you have any whites? That's another big possibility.

Either way someone cuckoo colored was a parent, obviously. Could have even been a white or splash or something. The duckwing there was either from EE's going around or recessive duckwing going around.

The only hens she could be from are lavender, black, black split, or wheaten (chances are slim on the wheaten though- they were seriously slacking in the egg dept when I set these).
Maybe my GC marans is hiding duckwing? I have chicks hatched from the most dominant one- we'll have to see what becomes of them. Thanks for your help!

 

[Christie Rhae]

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I found the calf manna you were talking about on the marans group! I also found game bird feed 30% protein. I had to make a 4 hour round trip to get it so I stocked up! I just figured it was not available on the islands but you just have to know exactly what to ask for. Getting closer to feeling like I have the right feed mix for my birds!

 

[Goose and Fig]

Here are my first BBS eggs.....from 3 hens....not blue, but still pretty. Is this an acceptable Ameracauna egg color?

What the what? Are you sure you didn't hatch olive eggers? There is no way those could be BBS eggs. They're even speckled. Beautiful, but I think you have your birds mis-identified or something..