Buff Ameraucana offspring

[iuga]

The 3rd picture does look like wheaten chicks. I’m not familiar with buff variety or the genetics involved in the variety, this could very well be normal but I wouldn’t know. Are you a member of the Ameraucana Alliance or Ameraucana Breeders Club? I would go to the one of the 2 breed clubs and ask. That is the nice thing about Ameraucana is most of the breeders that developed the breed and varieties are still around and participating in the breed clubs.

I am from Romania so I am not a member of either the Ameraucana Alliance or the Ameraucana Breeders Club.

 

[nicalandia]

It's my second year of raising ameraucana.
I have buff, wheaten and black varieties. 2 chicks looks like the wheatens last year.
That's why I was wondering if it's possible that it's a hidden (recessive) gene because they're siblings and recessive genes come out easily.

I have nothing to do but wait for them to grow!

Perhaps those are Wheatens that you misplaced the hatching eggs? Otherwise Self Buff Ameraucanas are Wheaten Based and Columbian does not have any meaningful effect on chick down.

 

[iuga]

The coloring of the parents is very uneven, and they have light shafting in the darker areas of their plumage. I think there are other color genetics mixed in besides pure buff. Or it could be that color variety hasn't been perfected enough to eliminate variability in the offspring.

I bought eggs from a famous breeder in Turkey, but you might be right!

 

[iuga]

Perhaps those are Wheatens that you misplaced the hatching eggs? Otherwise Self Buff Ameraucanas are Wheaten Based and Columbian does not have any meaningful effect on chick down.

Unlikely.
They are separate, I am very careful when I collect them, the eggs have different shades and I just incubated buff this time.

 

[nicalandia]

Unlikely.
They are separate, I am very careful when I collect them, the eggs have different shades and I just incubated buff this time.

Wheaten is a very peculiar e allele. You have Dominant Wheaten eWh and recessive wheaten ey, any of those are good candidates for self buff phenotype

 

[JedJackson]

I bought eggs from a famous breeder in Turkey, but you might be right!

Those birds have very good type/body conformation for Ameraucanas. I think they are high quality overall. Through selection you could probably get better coloring, but the shafting would concern me if I was breeding that variety in America. But standards are different in different countries, so yours may have the right coloring for your area.

 

[nicalandia]

Those birds have very good type/body conformation for Ameraucanas. I think they are high quality overall. Through selection you could probably get better coloring, but the shafting would concern me if I was breeding that variety in America. But standards are different in different countries, so yours may have the right coloring for your area.

I think there is only One Ameraucana Standard. While Araucanas have like 3 or more. The British Araucanas have crest, beard and tails.

 

[JedJackson]

I think there is only One Ameraucana Standard. While Araucanas have like 3 or more. The British Araucanas have crest, beard and tails.

Yes, I know the British and Australians have crested Araucanas, derived at least in part from different S American breeds than used in the creation of US Araucanas. The standard is also for white skin in Britain, rather than yellow skin.

I am actually surprised there would be any Ameraucanas at all in Turkey, but I think it's great! The pictured birds look much like the ones we see here.

 

[iuga]

Those birds have very good type/body conformation for Ameraucanas. I think they are high quality overall. Through selection you could probably get better coloring, but the shafting would concern me if I was breeding that variety in America. But standards are different in different countries, so yours may have the right coloring for your area.

There is no other standard for Ameraucanas than the American one (as I know).

Sorry for my poor English, but I don't know what 'shafting' means. It's about the line?

 

[iuga]

Yes, I know the British and Australians have crested Araucanas, derived at least in part from different S American breeds than used in the creation of US Araucanas. The standard is also for white skin in Britain, rather than yellow skin.

I am actually surprised there would be any Ameraucanas at all in Turkey, but I think it's great! The pictured birds look much like the ones we see here.

There are a lot of ameraucana breeders in Turkey. Almost all varieties.