Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[chicknadventure]

Thanks for the welcome. I have my fingers crossed for a good batch as hey were sent on Thursday afternoon on a holiday weekend and so I won't get them until Tuesday evening I will be among them straight to my friends house who has hatched a lot of eggs and is doing these for me. I really love the blue wheaten combo but my husband would have killed me if I had ordered more than one batch. My white Ameraucanas (don't know for sure bc she was a swap but was hatched from a blue egg and the lady who said she gave the egg to the gap I got her from raises ameraucanas) was featured in the newspaper today in an article about. Ackyard chickens. I will post the link ASAP.

 

[Shaffer]

Jerry,
The truth of the lavender that was used was an EE type bird carrying the blue egg gene. This bird was the real foundation bird used in the Lavender Ameraucana, Lavender Araucana and the american Lavender Orpington (Now we have imports which have a much overall superior quality available but I did not add them to my Lavender Orpington stock perhaps eventually). I have lavender Orpingtons but they were created from the original EE bird.

 

[pips&peeps]

Just wanted to clarify what Shaffer said. His ameraucanas were started with that ee type bird as well as all the original US orpingtons and araucanas.

I believe some other ABC members used a D'Anver and bred up their bantams.

 

[crazyhen]

Welcome to

. Its always wonderful to make new friends. I love ameracuanas and am getting some hatching eggs the first week of june. They are the wheaten and also the blue wheaten type. I too can barely wait for them to come and get them hatched. This will be my third hatch this year.
I have aflock of purebreed hens but all kinds. I love that they look like they were intended too. Right now I have broodies. One part English blue orp and one barred rock is sitting. No eggs. I lost my English mix black orp to a heart attack last winter. It was for sure sudden. He was hugh. !!!!!
We can talk back and forth about the perils of shipped eggs.

gloria jean

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Speaking of lavenders -- after my most frustrating hatch, at 1 week, one of them is showing the beginnings of crossbeak - not either of the stickies - one of which is thriving, the other needed a bit of a kick start but is catching up. Are all these problems typical of lavenders or are mine symptomatic of other issues (like inbreeding?)

(The problem WILL stop here because I have a FABULOUS black cockerel and a black pullet from pips&peeps that I intend to use to breed forward with these lavenders understanding that I won't get any lavenders out of the first hatch but hoping I will have improved lavenders down the road. Assuming I use only the best and those without problems from this hatch, am I on the right track???)

I had issues with lavender Silkies as well. Issues I've never had with any other colour (not that I have loads of experience.) Are "issues" something to expect with lavenders?

 

[pips&peeps]

Feather quality and leakage are issues to be expected in lavender and crossed beaks happen from time to time.

 

[roncrna]

What color do you get when you cross a black roo and wheaten and blue wheaten hens? I didn't intend to hatch any but my broody Lav hen hatched three of these eggs out. The chicks appear to be brown in color but does anyone know what they will look like when they are older? All three chicks look identical.

 

[cnmfarm]

I won the bantam Ameraucana pair at the Lucasville Oh show this weekend. Does anyone know who donated them? thx!

 

[Reyvaughn]

What color do you get when you cross a black roo and wheaten and blue wheaten hens? I didn't intend to hatch any but my broody Lav hen hatched three of these eggs out. The chicks appear to be brown in color but does anyone know what they will look like when they are older? All three chicks look identical.

I was wondering this. I have a lovely, single black Am girl I thought about putting in with my blue Wheaten, Dorian. She is a much better egg layer than any of my BW/W girls and her type is nicer, imo.

 

[chickee]

I am making progress with my buff Ameraucana egg color improvement project. The first generation Meredith buff hens (hatched from green eggs) x Pips & Peeps wheaten rooster (hatched from a blue egg) have started laying and the egg color is a gorgeous Turquoise blue. About 85% of the pullets have hatched out with the solid buff color. Now I need to find a buff rooster that hatched from a blue egg to continue my project