Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Rainwolf]

i dunno either...
I have seen blacks look like they have gold in hackles due to sheen
I've also seen some with gold in hackles that were pure Ameraucana but some trait somewhere back when threw gold. (the one I've seen had what I call split feather coloring. half black half dark red/golden color divided down the feather shank. my guess is a red or wheaten color bird was used at one time in the past?)
I would never use a bird with leakage for a breeder but it does happen.

 

[klf73]

I have a black girl with gold in her hackles and also a splash with a little gold, both are EE's and are a result of blue wheaten over splash and blue wheaten over black, even though both parents are ameraucana the mixing of colors makes the offspring EE's and I wouldnt use them in any of my breeding pens (and they lay a nice blue egg).

 

[Reyvaughn]

Welp... I lost my Lavender cockerel. For some reason the now 3wk olds have become targets of harassment. All of them had to be blu-koted today. The 6 day olds and the 1.5wk old are fine and dandy... I needed him, too.

 

[ChickenLeg]

I'm sorry for your loss, I lost my only BW pullet 2 days ago :/ I feel your pain

 

[plumcreek]

I asked this in the general thread and didn't get much help so trying the specialists! I had three black or blue Paul Smith roos in with my girls. I have one blue and one black hen also from Paul Smith. I threw a handful of eggs in the incubator a couple of the blue eggs that will make some purebred babies and three of the darkest browns that I have. I assume that the eggs were from either my black copper maran or the welsummer (hatchery stock) because of the color. They really look like they are from the same hen as far as color and size.

Is the yellow chick from my Ameraucana roos? I also have some very young Salmon Favorelles in there but they haven't even crowed. I would guess they are 4 months and would have been even younger 20 plus days ago, but this chick looks a lot like a SF chick. The yellow chick has clean legs btw. Can the Ameraucana cross with a Welsummer or Maran produce this?

Attached are pics of the first four out of the eggs. One purebred, two that are what I was expecting....and the yellow. I put the eggs in there as well. Will this chick somehow turn out to be a white EE? There is some brown across it's back that you can see if you look closely also.

This makes me question whether I can trust that my purebred chicks are certainly pure!

 

[Christie Rhae]

I asked this in the general thread and didn't get much help so trying the specialists! I had three black or blue Paul Smith roos in with my girls. I have one blue and one black hen also from Paul Smith. I threw a handful of eggs in the incubator a couple of the blue eggs that will make some purebred babies and three of the darkest browns that I have. I assume that the eggs were from either my black copper maran or the welsummer (hatchery stock) because of the color. They really look like they are from the same hen as far as color and size.

Is the yellow chick from my Ameraucana roos? I also have some very young Salmon Favorelles in there but they haven't even crowed. I would guess they are 4 months and would have been even younger 20 plus days ago, but this chick looks a lot like a SF chick. The yellow chick has clean legs btw. Can the Ameraucana cross with a Welsummer or Maran produce this?

Attached are pics of the first four out of the eggs. One purebred, two that are what I was expecting....and the yellow. I put the eggs in there as well. Will this chick somehow turn out to be a white EE? There is some brown across it's back that you can see if you look closely also.

This makes me question whether I can trust that my purebred chicks are certainly pure!

Trying to figure out what you have there. If you have a blue roo with a blue hen you will hatch 25% splash ameraucana. They look yellow when they hatch.

 

[vanalpaca]

Plumcreek,

It sounds like you had blue roos and black roos in with blue hens and black hens.

You may not know what the chick is until it starts feathering in well as you mentioned Salmon Favererols....

BUT

Blue x Blue = 100% Splash Chicks in Ameraucana, so it could be your blue roo and your blue hen's offspring!

Paul's stock is pure....

Black x Black = 100% Black chicks
Black x Blue = 50/50 Black/Blue chicks
Splash x Splash = 100% Splash chicks
Blue x Blue = 100% Splash chicks
Black X Splash = 100% BLUE chicks

That's SOME of the color combos....

 

[vanalpaca]

That's all I do, all day.
But seriously, it takes less than 10 minutes, 3 times a day to do the turning. I spend countless hours candling eggs --- I just love watching 'wigglers' wiggling.
edited to add: I've never set more than 10 doz eggs at a time, but I set eggs every week.

Well how about strings tied to the egg shelves and a tiny hole up top to pull it through and a screw or something to tie it off. You could lift or lower the whole shelf of eggs so they 'turn' from side to side with the strings.......

 

[Christie Rhae]

Plumcreek,

It sounds like you had blue roos and black roos in with blue hens and black hens.

You may not know what the chick is until it starts feathering in well as you mentioned Salmon Favererols....

BUT

Blue x Blue = 100% Splash Chicks in Ameraucana, so it could be your blue roo and your blue hen's offspring!

Paul's stock is pure....

Black x Black = 100% Black chicks
Black x Blue = 50/50 Black/Blue chicks
Splash x Splash = 100% Splash chicks
Blue x Blue = 100% Splash chicks
Black X Splash = 100% BLUE chicks

That's SOME of the color combos....

blue x blue will give you a percentage of blue, black and splash not 100% splash... but regardless that yellow chick could totally be a splash chick from the blueXblue.

 

[Rainwolf]

Blue/Black/Splash Color Chart by saridout1985, on Flickr