Ameraucanas- A few questions

[Silky]

Hey there everyone,

another new member here. I have eight Ameraucana chickens, and I read the stickied article about them.

Now, about breeding true.

I have four Brown Reds, one Wheaten, one Blue wheaten, a Silver, and a Buff. They all have muffs and beards, small wattles, and pea-combs. They breed true, my brown red cock (a gorgeous one, mind you. He produces beautiful babies) producing a lot of wheatens and brown reds. I've gotten all APA accepted colors except one splash cockerel.

They lay blue and green eggs. My Brown Reds lay green, my others, blue. I thought this was kind of funny.

So, they're not Easter Eggers, they're Ameraucanas, yes? That article was very informative, but I was still slightly confused.

Also, I have a Brown Red female, Alexandra, and she has yellow lacing on all of her feathers. Is this normal or accepted? My other females have solid brown plumage with golden laced heads.
Silky

 

[chicken stalker]

post some photos. There are a bunch of us on here that breed ameraucanas so we'd should be able to answer your questions.

 

[pips&peeps]

Pictures would be nice. Also where did you get them?

 

[Silky]

I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow, once I get a decent shot of Antimony, my buff, and my silver.


I got the originals at Clearview Hatchery in Gratz, PA. There are only three left of those now; the rest are my little babies I have hatched.

 

[Silky]

Here's some pictures of my...he's a Wheaten? I wasn't sure that or Brown Red.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k275/Snowy_Owl11/100_9487.jpg

My camera is being tempermental, so I'll try to get some Alexandra shots up soon.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

He's not brown red. See the brown patch at the end of his wing? Brown reds don't have that--no birchen-based bird does.

 

[Chris09]

Im not to shure he is a Brown Red might be a Wheaten with a sun faded beard...
they are not my birds but I got them at http://www.ameraucana.org/
Here is a Brown red.

Here is a Wheaten.

Chris

 

[trilyn]

Hi there, I don't know if you've ever seen this page on Ameraucana standards. Here is the link:

http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook.html

Whoops, sorry Chris09-the photos in your post came from this site!

 

[Chris09]

Quote:
Thats OK...

Chris

 

[Byrdj]

[He's not brown red. See the brown patch at the end of his wing? Brown reds don't have that--no birchen-based bird does]

Sonoran is correct. Possibly a wheaten but definitely not a brown red.