Breeding Program Mind Map

[Amer]

i think that a lot of info online is just bad LOL. i think the ppl who say that only silkies can have paint are purebreeders or don't work with anything outside of silkies.

you're right in that there actually is a lot of content online about paint birds - they're just called other things like Ermines or Erminettes which I would have never been able to find on my own.


i think my original issue was that i didn't realize my bird was a paint, i thought it was a white dom mottled bird.


yeah, i was finding a lot of paint content but it was rather new - but now that i understand paint exists outside of silkies things make so much more sense about my bird in question.

originally i thought she was an austra white, but those birds lay white/cream eggs. but she came from a blue egg and will lay a blue egg, so she may be an Ameraucana/Leghorn mix?

Maybe. Do you have a picture of her?

 

[tolmema]

here's some older pics. i will go take some more next time i'm at the farm. but it's pretty much a carbon copy of the mama with a few more spots and more of a...maybe muddy? color? it's not lavender, but it's not a pure white color, more of a pearly white. at hatch it had a distinct chipmunk stripe.


only one of these eggs hatched from this parentage - i half-inspected ones that didn't hatch and saw black, white, and mayyyybe a blue baby.


@ a few weeks

@hatch

mama

sire (lav)

 

[NatJ]

originally i thought she was an austra white, but those birds lay white/cream eggs. but she came from a blue egg and will lay a blue egg, so she may be an Ameraucana/Leghorn mix?

Yes, that sounds like a definite possibility.

Or she could be an Easter Egger that is not from any recent cross, but traces back through many generations of EE x EE matings, eventually going back to ancestors that were Araucana or Ameraucana, and White Leghorn, and maybe some other breeds as well.

 

[tolmema]

Yes, that sounds like a definite possibility.

Or she could be an Easter Egger that is not from any recent cross, but traces back through many generations of EE x EE matings, eventually going back to ancestors that were Araucana or Ameraucana, and White Leghorn, and maybe some other breeds as well.

that makes sense. she's a real mystery! she will be laying soon, i'm very excited to see what she throws.

 

[tolmema]

i took some photos of Marshmallow today. about 12-13 weeks old now.