Nope. I haven't worked for them in a while. Too busy. I DID recommend they find a lavender breed.I wonder if our very own NoseyChickens has something to do with that...I think that's the company she is working for now...
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The egg needs to be blue or green. Its part of the breed. It is lacking a breed characteristic.
I read earlier about the person who bred there chickens to lay white eggs. When it comes to showing only: if they would take one of those birds to a show it should be disqualified.
To me its like snipping a white feather out of a black, and hoping the judge doesn't notice. You would be like, please don't lay an egg, its the wrong color........................................
I read earlier about the person who bred there chickens to lay white eggs. When it comes to showing only: if they would take one of those birds to a show it should be disqualified.
To me its like snipping a white feather out of a black, and hoping the judge doesn't notice. You would be like, please don't lay an egg, its the wrong color........................................
I'm on the fence on that one. On the one hand, the blue egg is a breed characteristic and obviously important. On the other hand, the point of showing birds isn't so much to say that you have the best birds but to get an objective outside opinion on how your breeding program is progressing (or at least it should be the point for serious breeders).
The person earlier with the white eggs did not really select for white egg color in their birds. What they were selecting for was productivity, and it just happened that their most productive layers also happened to have an off color. They freely admit that egg color is a work in progress on their birds, they just about have productivity where they want it to be and will soon be working on getting a proper blue egg along with productivity as the "next step" in their breeding program. In this case, showing a bird with an undesirable egg color would still have a benefit to this breeder to help them in knowing where their program stands on other traits beside egg color.
I agree. Ameraucana's are still a continuing work in progress.
From what I am reading on the Ameraucana over on the ABC club forum, serious breeders will breed in and breed out given traits. In the case of having white or slightly off color eggs, many of us here have bought eggs represented as robin's egg blue to get light green eggs instead.
Many of the birds like the Ameraucana are being 'worked on' by serious breeders to bring them closer to standard and improve desirable qualities like bluer egg color, higher egg production, better dispositions, etc, as well as type. If they were showing the eggs in the egg class, then the white eggs wouldn't win, but showing the bird in the breed classes it very well could. Besides, Cockerals don't lay eggs.........and a judge can't see the egg color genetics the bird is carrying so it isn't judged on that.
Royce, go read deeper into the history. The LF Ameraucana were approved in 1984 lumped in with the Bantam Ameraucanas that were being put forward for approval. The Bantams had all the numbers and colors etc., but the LF hadn't really even been worked on at that point, let alone 'breeding true'. They didn't exist in all the colors but were approved in all the same 8 colors........Even in 2005 posts, the breeders working on LF had more green eggs than blue eggs, but did have the blue egg gene. Now in 2012 a much higher percentage of them have eggs far closer to the blue ranges in color than the green eggs of a mere 7 years ago. I'd say were were all lucky to be getting Ameraucanas from serious breeders that have been in the game for 15-20 years and done so much work to get the breed as consistent as it is to type with improved egg color.
I'm sorry, I just feel the newbies need to know this. The LF Ameraucana is a new breed and lots of work has gone into getting it up to where it is today. Now if it were a RIR we were talking about........how long have THEY been bred? 80-100 years or so?
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LOL! Your Ameraucanas like to cuddle, too? My birds were also so sweet and affectionate as babies. My grown hens now still are to an extent, my previous BW rooster though learned to keep his distance.
LOL! Your Ameraucanas like to cuddle, too? My birds were also so sweet and affectionate as babies. My grown hens now still are to an extent, my previous BW rooster though learned to keep his distance.
Hello all, I've been lurking on this thread for a week or so and I think I love Ameraucanas! I've never had chickens before, but I'm planning to get some soon. How do I go about finding some actual Ameraucanas? I see them listed in Craigslist, but after reading this thread I just don't believe that they are the real deal. I want to raise five chicks, and I'm not sure I'm up to hatching eggs on my first chicken experiment.
There is only one place to go to: The breed club of the particular breed you are interested in to learn what you should expect in your birds. You will want to visit the Ameraucana Breeders Club forum and they have a breeders list where you can find someone near you. Good luck, don't forget to join the club after you are established as a breeder.
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@ Jeremy - I only like bringing Blue into the house with me, I'm sure the others get jealous of him,
but my mom put a limit of one chicken in the house at a time
but my mom put a limit of one chicken in the house at a time
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