Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[dfdesigns]

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Thanks for letting me know! They really are gorgeous.

 

[tinychicky]

Regarding the RKR birds and Wayne Meredith... I know nothing at all about RKR so cannot comment at all on their birds. Regarding Wayne Meredith, he has been breeding the WBS variety longer than anyone I believe. I believe it was either John Blehm, Mike Gilbert, or Paul Smith (and perhaps all three) that told me most, if not all, WBS birds can be traced back to Wayne.

Having said that, you need to realize that my guess would be you are not getting Wayne Meredith "line" birds but rather RKR line birds that originated from Wayne Meredith's lines. So that would mean thta RKR has birds with the Meredith "strain".

Once you put two birds together, breed them, and get offspring - for all intents and purposes you now have your own line. That is most certainly the case after you've bred for 2-3 years.

Ugh! This is edited to add a couple things I forgot. First, you're right, the comb is a bit oversized but you can get that down fairly easily by future selection. Also, from what I can see, the earlobe color isn't too bad at all. He's got real nice, clean hackles, tail set is pretty good though you'll want to get rid of all that fluff, leg color look good, got a little red edging in the tail and I'd get rid of that, you will likely have to continue working on getting a full black beard (I've seen few with one), and overall pretty good Type. At least from what one can tell in a snapshot of time.

If I didn't have anything better, I wouldn't hesitate to breed him and certainly would do that before going outside to bring in anything else.

God Bless,

Thanks for your reply. I was wondering about that edging on his sickles... good to know. Here's an updated pic now that he's finished molting... see? No fluff!




And here's my upcoming star (hopefully!) He's also from John Blehm's strain and you can see he has a nice full beard. He somehow managed to sprain his foot a couple weeks ago which is why he's bandaged. From what I can see he has good leg color (hard to tell from the pic though) and his comb is very neat and small. Not a whole lot to be told about him until he's older I guess but I like him so far.

 

[Kismet]

I have a question about Ameracauna splash leg coloring. I hatched some shipped eggs from a breeder on this site and got 3 black and 3 splash chicks. They are now about a month old and growing up nicely. The black chicks have nice slate legs, but the splash have a decidedly green cast to their slate legs. I want to use a splash cock to create blue, but I am wary of introducing any faults. Except for this greenish cast, the chicks look pretty good (as much as one can tell at this young age). Do splash birds tend to have a grey leg with greenish (dare I say it? EE looking?) tones?

 

[mama24]

What color is the bottom of their feet? If it's pink, then you are good. If it's yellow, they are not purebred Am's. I do think that some of my lighter slate legged breeds have had a slight greenish tinge while they were growing up. Leg color definitely gets darker as they get older. Some are even born with pink legs and don't get the nice slate color for months!

 

[fowlsessed]

do lavender ameraucanas breed true?

 

[DMRippy]

do lavender ameraucanas breed true?

Yes, but you need to breed them to black Ameraucanas.

 

[fowlsessed]

Yes, but you need to breed them to black Ameraucanas.

so you mean breed a lavender to black and the resulting hatch is 100% lavender? and does it matter if you use a black roo over a lavender hen or vice versa? and what happens if you breed lavender to lavender? sorry for all the questions, just trying to learn.

 

[Reyvaughn]

so you mean breed a lavender to black and the resulting hatch is 100% lavender? and does it matter if you use a black roo over a lavender hen or vice versa? and what happens if you breed lavender to lavender? sorry for all the questions, just trying to learn.

No, lav to lav = 100% lav.
Lav to black will give you lav and black split lav.

You don't have to breed to black, but it is suggested to help the quality of the feathers. Also since lav is a project color, if you have any other faults in type, black birds are used to correct them.

 

[tinychicky]

Hi fowlsessed! If you breed black to lavender (of any breed, not just ameraucanas) you'll get what's called a lavender split. This is a black bird carrying the recessive gene for lavender. It follows that a split bred to a lav will result in 50% lav and 50% lav splits. A split to another split will result in 25% pure black, 50% splits and 25% lav, etc.

 

[tinychicky]

reyvaughn, you beat me to it!