Chocolate/Mauve Ameraucana color project~ BeakHouse

[Saris]

I'm searching for eggs or day old chicks shipped to 99201, please PM me if you have any available.

 

[Tammy 0]

Hey Jean! I've been wanting to see how yours are doing.

Here's an unretouched pic from my phone of the last couple of days' eggs...some of them have more green than I'd like (and some of them a lot more poop than I'd like!

) but over all, they've retained a good amount of blue, so eliminating the brown overlay will be more important for me than adding more blue. If I get a smaller cockerel, I can send him to you. Would you mind working with a fellow who also had Blue? You could move past that pretty quickly if you didn't want to mess with Mauve.

This is Tammy checking your post I'd like to know if I could buy any of your eggs for hatching.

 

[Tammy 0]

This is Tammy would like to know if I can buy any of your eggs for hatching I was just checking out your post

 

[flgardengirl]

Hey guys, I have a little pullet that looks exactly like a bantam chocolate Ameraucana. Tiny but with cheek tufts and beard. She's so sweet and cute! She can't be pure but I am kinda wondering if anyone might have any ideas genetically what she might be as far as who was the father (chocolate Orp or blue or black Ameraucana?) or mother (chocolate Orp or blue or black Americ.?) Okay obviously she's an easter egger but I am still curious about the genetics how they work on chocolates.
One of her parents has to be a bantam Chocolate Orpington because I have a roo and 3 hens. I also have some ameraucanas LF that are blue and a few blacks. That's all it can be. I was letting them run around together for awhile and not trying to breed them (but they had other ideas, apparently). They all got along okay so I let them.
I am wondering if one of the Ameraucanas is carrying a chocolate gene somewhere? None of them have ever had chocolate babies lol. I didn't see the egg that this baby hatched from. Some of the hens did go broody and I just let them hatch them. A chocolate Orp hen had the chick with her but they were all laying in the same nest (you know how they are lol).
Can a Chocolate hen pass the chocolate gene to a hen? I thought it was only roos. Will it show up in the first generation? What are the rules? Thanks
If anyone wants to see a pic of her I can get one.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Doubtful that your Ameraucana is carrying chocolate.
Your chicks father is the chocolate orp.
Hens do not pass chocolate to their pullet offspring. You're correct they can only pass it to the male offspring.
A hen is either chocolate or not. If they have the gene it shows. They can not carry it sight unseen.
Males can have one copy and carry it sight unseen. Two copies and be chocolate or no copies.
For a hen to show chocolate her father must be chocolate or carrying the gene. Mother doesn't matter.
For a male to be chocolate he has to have a chocolate mom and father that is either chocolate or carrying it.
Chocolate is a fun gene to work with.
You can have a black rooster that carries chocolate and breed him to a bunch of black hen and have half his female offspring be chocolate.
That's pretty cool imo.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Ages since I've been on byc, with spring I'm wondering how the projects have been going? Wondering if anyone could do a close-up of a "silky" ameruacana? Is it the same feather type as a silky? Or softer feathers? Thank you.

I am considering adding chocolate to my flock Here in MI I may have to outcross to an orp, if I can find one!!!

 

[droy1028]

Dont mean to revive a dead thread but does anyone know where I can buy some Chocolate Ameraucana and some Chocolate Marans hatching eggs? Please message me. I'm very interested in beginning a joint breeding project or assisting with the development of other Chocolate breed patterns. Thanks!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

If these guys don't, all I have found were first generation chocolate orpington + amerauicana (easter eggers) hatching eggs from my pet chicken. $$$$, but is something??

 

[The Moonshiner]

If these guys don't, all I have found were first generation chocolate orpington + amerauicana (easter eggers) hatching eggs from my pet chicken. $$$$, but is something??

$12+ per egg for mixed breed. That's MPC for you.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

All chocolate ams started this way, i would hope good breed lines for that price? Obviously i would rather some further along generationally, but far as I know these byc breeders were only ones to start this color project until now????

I have been dying to know whether this strain of ameruacanas retained the orp's broodiness??