Are the earmuffs & beard of the ameraucana dominate or recessive?

[cluckingheck]

So far, I’m pretty sure I have one female and male black ameraucana ( AM for simplicity ). With the okay to hatch chicks in the spring and the possibility of getting an incubator for xmas, i was wondering if it’d be possible to get offspring that inherited the earmuffs & beard of the ameraucana and the barring of a barred Plymouth Rock or do both parents need that trait to be expressed? could I be able to do it in one generation or would I have to do multi-generation breeding? I have a BR rooster, a BR hen, an AM roo, & an AM hen. Would I need to do the BR roo x AM hen ooor AM roo x BR hen?

 

[Poultrybonkers]

some chicks would have muffs but wont be as full as the am is and some wont have any at all if its a true am then all chicks should have some muffs but not full muff

 

[JadeFarms]

So ameraucanas do not have ear muffs, auracanas do. Muffs and beard is dominate, the offspring would have them for a few generations. Anything mixed with the ameraucanas (roo or hen) would produce muffs and beard.

If you do any rooster over a barred or cuckoo hen then it will produce sex link chicks. So the AM (roo) x BR (hen) would be sex link. I actually have a black ameraucana roo x cuckoo maran hen chick, it would look similar to the AM X BR. The female babies of AM (roo) x BR (hen) would be black and males barred.

If you do BR (roo)x AM (hen) I believe both genders are barred. They wouldn’t be sex link.

 

[cluckingheck]

So ameraucanas do not have ear muffs, auracanas do. Muffs and beard is dominate, the offspring would have them for a few generations. Anything mixed with the ameraucanas (roo or hen) would produce muffs and beard.

If you do any rooster over a barred or cuckoo hen then it will produce sex link chicks. So the AM (roo) x BR (hen) would be sex link. I actually have a black ameraucana roo x cuckoo maran hen chick, it would look similar to the AM X BR. The female babies of AM (roo) x BR (hen) would be black and males barred.

If you do BR (roo)x AM (hen) I believe both genders are barred. They wouldn’t be sex link.

wait, i thought ameraucanas do have earmuffs & beards while the araucana only had the earmuffs ( no beard )? or am i reading what you said wrong?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameraucana

ANYWAYS, so the best way to go is BR roo x AM hen if I want both genders of chicks to have the barring and the earmuffs & beard? okay, gotcha, that’s pretty much what i was wanting to achieve.

 

[Amer]

Ameraucanas have beards and muffs, which is a dominant gene.
Araucanas have ear tufts, which is an incompletely dominant lethal gene.

If you breed a black male with a barred female, you will get sex links.
Male chicks will have a copy of barring expressed as a white dot on their heads when they are chicks, females will be black.
If you breed a barred male with a black female, all offspring will get a single copy of the barring gene.

 

[cluckingheck]

Ameraucanas have beards and muffs, which is a dominant gene.
Araucanas have ear tufts, which is an incompletely dominant lethal gene.

If you breed a black male with a barred female, you will get sex links.
Male chicks will have a copy of barring expressed as a white dot on their heads when they are chicks, females will be black.
If you breed a barred male with a black female, all offspring will get a single copy of the barring gene.

okay, thank you for this, but when you say offspring will only get a single copy, does that mean the barring won’t be as “strong” in the chicks and will they look kind of...diluted, if that makes sense? or will the barring look like what you’d expect of a pure BR?

 

[Amer]

okay, thank you for this, but when you say offspring will only get a single copy, does that mean the barring won’t be as “strong” in the chicks and will they look kind of...diluted, if that makes sense? or will the barring look like what you’d expect of a pure BR?

Barring is sex linked.
The hens will look the same, they always get one copy of barring, but usually roosters have two, so they are lighter.
Having one copy of barring will make the roosters the same color as the hens.

 

[cluckingheck]

Barring is sex linked.
The hens will look the same, they always get one copy of barring, but usually roosters have two, so they are lighter.
Having one copy of barring will make the roosters the same color as the hens.

OH, OOOOH. okay, yeah, usually BR roosters look whiter than hens because they have double barring on the white. i forgot about that and confused what you were saying with traits being partially expressed. all of them will all look darker instead of whiter because of only having one barring gene, got it.

 

[Akgmrw62]

Ameraucanas have beards and muffs, which is a dominant gene.
Araucanas have ear tufts, which is an incompletely dominant lethal gene.

If you breed a black male with a barred female, you will get sex links.
Male chicks will have a copy of barring expressed as a white dot on their heads when they are chicks, females will be black.
If you breed a barred male with a black female, all offspring will get a single copy of the barring gene.

Hello, sorry to barge in but I'm getting myself more confused trying to figure my hen out. Your description of beard/muff/tufts has me more confused. I posted a pic of her in another thread and got replies that she was an Ameraucana. As she's gotten older noticed she does have both beard and muffs but she also has the ear tufts of the bit longer feathers. Do I possibly have a weird bred hen? Bought her at local Orschlins with 2 others. They were marked as barred rock. Other 2 had the white spot on head and she had none. Just all black. She had yellow legs as chick but as grew they turned black and now her legs and feel all black. I'm stumped.

 

[Amer]

Hello, sorry to barge in but I'm getting myself more confused trying to figure my hen out. Your description of beard/muff/tufts has me more confused. I posted a pic of her in another thread and got replies that she was an Ameraucana. As she's gotten older noticed she does have both beard and muffs but she also has the ear tufts of the bit longer feathers. Do I possibly have a weird bred hen? Bought her at local Orschlins with 2 others. They were marked as barred rock. Other 2 had the white spot on head and she had none. Just all black. She had yellow legs as chick but as grew they turned black and now her legs and feel all black. I'm stumped.

Do you have a picture?