Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[aoxa]

My Ameracauna eggs are hatching! I have 3 piping and peeping! I'll post pictures when they hatch. I really want a splash even though they are not a recognized color. We'll still show in 4-H the splash color if allowed. I'm excited as this is the breed of my dreams. These first few were not cheap eggs either, they better not be Easter eggers for the price I paid.

Congrats! You must be excited

 

[Nicole01]

My Ameracauna eggs are hatching! I have 3 piping and peeping! I'll post pictures when they hatch. I really want a splash even though they are not a recognized color. We'll still show in 4-H the splash color if allowed. I'm excited as this is the breed of my dreams. These first few were not cheap eggs either, they better not be Easter eggers for the price I paid.

Congrats! You must be excited

Thank you! I am excited! I just hope I don't ruin the other 12 from doing a staggered hatch. My husband would not be happy if I bought 2 incubators off the bat.

If I don't have show standards, I'll start over next spring. I'm so in love with the hens wheaten color.

 

[aoxa]

Thank you! I am excited! I just hope I don't ruin the other 12 from doing a staggered hatch. My husband would not be happy if I bought 2 incubators off the bat.
If I don't have show standards, I'll start over next spring. I'm so in love with the hens wheaten color.

I really like patterned Ameraucanas as well, but I've heard they don't do as well as solid coloured birds in the show. I find that surprising.

Do you just have Wheaton?

 

[BarnGoddess01]

I am irritated that some of the people on the forum say project colors have no place on this forum.

I must have missed the posters that suggested project colours have no place on this forum.

 

[Reyvaughn]

I must have missed the posters that suggested project colours have no place on this forum.

It was back during the last EE vs Ameraucana fight. Cooper said specifically Lavs had no place on the forum because they are a not recognized color, thus an EE. I posted one for sale and s/he told me to cull it.

 

[AinaWGSD]

I really like patterned Ameraucanas as well, but I've heard they don't do as well as solid coloured birds in the show. I find that surprising.

It's not really that surprising. With solid colored birds there is less to focus on and it's easier to concentrate on getting the type as close to perfect as possible. With patterned birds you really have to keep an eye on both type and the nuances of the pattern and it's harder to get both to be close to perfect. Even in breeds like wyandottes, where the original color is patterned and the solid varieties were added later, the solid birds tend to do better in shows.

 

[Nicole01]

Thank you! I am excited! I just hope I don't ruin the other 12 from doing a staggered hatch. My husband would not be happy if I bought 2 incubators off the bat.
If I don't have show standards, I'll start over next spring. I'm so in love with the hens wheaten color.

I really like patterned Ameraucanas as well, but I've heard they don't do as well as solid coloured birds in the show. I find that surprising.

Do you just have Wheaton?

No, I have blue and black, which also produce splash.

I'll start over if these ones are not social and/or show quality.

I'll prepare them at home while my husband takes our children to the shows. I'd love to show myself, but I can't leave my house unless it's for a doctors apt. My kids want to show them just as much as I do. My husband wants us to show as well, but not do all the work.

 

[Nicole01]

I love Silver too, but they are not easy to find. I can't imagine finding a show quality silver is an easy task either.

 

[aoxa]

It's not really that surprising.  With solid colored birds there is less to focus on and it's easier to concentrate on getting the type as close to perfect as possible.  With patterned birds you really have to keep an eye on both type and the nuances of the pattern and it's harder to get both to be close to perfect.  Even in breeds like wyandottes, where the original color is patterned and the solid varieties were added later, the solid birds tend to do better in shows.

I just find it surprising because I am more intrigued by patterns That's all. I understand it, I just don't relate

Yes the white Wyandottes do really well in the shows here. We often have entire shows dedicated to them.

 

[tellynpeep]

I don't even know where to begin. I already said it and I'll say it again, this thread has become very hostile and there is no learning going on because of these EE fights. I dread reading it because of the headache I get from it. My OCD requires me to read every thread I follow, so don't say I don't have to read it. I don't, but it would literally drive me nuts if I didn't.

Well, I haven't read the whole thread; I don't come to this forum for an argument! However, after raising and falling in love with this breed, I had no interest in EEs. Until last fall when my amazing and beloved Welsummer rooster was taken by a fox.

I immediately placed some of my Wheaten eggs in the incubator, and now have a pair of the sweetest and most beautiful Welsummer X Wheaten Ameraucanas you have ever seen! The cockerel has his father's coloring and sweet disposition, with a dark beard. And the girl looks just like a blend of the two: a very pale-colored pullet with Welsummer markings. I can't wait to see what her eggs look like! So, yeah.... I now love EEs too!