Chocolate/Mauve Ameraucana color project~ BeakHouse

[The Moonshiner]

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??

I would not expect anything stellar as far as quality from MPC.
Honestly if you're wanting chocolate ameraucana the ameraucana side is all that matters for quality since that's the breed you're aiming for.
The other side really doesn't matter for anything except the chocolate gene.
For the price of those eggs id spend the money on some nice black ameraucana from a show breeder.
Pick up any chocolate orpington rooster then breed it to your nice ameraucana hens. That will produce chocolate pullets.
Breed those pullets to your best ameraucana roosters. That will give you males that are black split to chocolate.
Breed those cockerels to best ameraucana pullets. Half pullets will be chocolate. Breed those to black ameraucana.
Repeat the process over and over till you get to the ameraucana type you need then start breeding together to get chocolate in both sexes.
It will take several generations but starting with ameraucana that come as close to their standard as possible will save you a generation or two which means a year or two.

 

[MINDANAO DAVE]

Hiya!

I've been working on some projects (imagine that!!) and wanted to share a couple of pictures of some of them- forgive the quality, as I've only got a phone to snap shots with...

Here are a couple of my LF Chocolate Ameraucana project:







And here's a Mauve pullet, which is a bird with both sex-linked Chocolate and the Blue dilution.




The Mauve is like a laced chocolate-milk color, rather than the deep, rich brown of the chocolate. It's lovely!

I'll be offering eggs from a mixed run of these for just a bit, while I wait for them to be clean now that I'm separating them into a few different breeding groups.

I'm still working on a double-choc boy, so there won't be true pures for a bit longer, and I'm working on getting the conformation better, but it's wonderful to see them as they are, just the same.

Beautiful birds. I have a question no one has answered and perhaps you will know I am buying a EE Rooster and I am wondering if the parents are both EE does that make the offspring rooster a definite Easter Egger? Thank You

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Yes, ee. Don't know how many generations before an outcross is considered "pure" again? I like the ee, personally. They come in colors the "pure" ameraucana don't. Purebreed are more stable in the temperament department though. Good breeders select for it.

 

[PNWchkns]

Hiya!

I've been working on some projects (imagine that!!) and wanted to share a couple of pictures of some of them- forgive the quality, as I've only got a phone to snap shots with...

Here are a couple of my LF Chocolate Ameraucana project:







And here's a Mauve pullet, which is a bird with both sex-linked Chocolate and the Blue dilution.




The Mauve is like a laced chocolate-milk color, rather than the deep, rich brown of the chocolate. It's lovely!

I'll be offering eggs from a mixed run of these for just a bit, while I wait for them to be clean now that I'm separating them into a few different breeding groups.

I'm still working on a double-choc boy, so there won't be true pures for a bit longer, and I'm working on getting the conformation better, but it's wonderful to see them as they are, just the same.

Do you sell your chocolates? I’m looking for shipping to WA state

thank you!

 

[PNWchkns]

Hiya!

I've been working on some projects (imagine that!!) and wanted to share a couple of pictures of some of them- forgive the quality, as I've only got a phone to snap shots with...

Here are a couple of my LF Chocolate Ameraucana project:







And here's a Mauve pullet, which is a bird with both sex-linked Chocolate and the Blue dilution.




The Mauve is like a laced chocolate-milk color, rather than the deep, rich brown of the chocolate. It's lovely!

I'll be offering eggs from a mixed run of these for just a bit, while I wait for them to be clean now that I'm separating them into a few different breeding groups.

I'm still working on a double-choc boy, so there won't be true pures for a bit longer, and I'm working on getting the conformation better, but it's wonderful to see them as they are, just the same.

Do you still breed the chocolate Ameraucanas? I have been searching high and low for some!

 

[PNWchkns]

Wonderful egg color, you lucked out!!!! Most of mine are similar to the picture of the egg in the third photo of my LF birds. I have two that are laying a lighter color. (These are my first generation birds.)

I only kept one cockerel that is split. He had the best type and nicest pea comb, I haven't looked at him closely lately, but I think he doesn't have any wattles. I will put him in with the hens later this year and yes I will get mauve because I have splash birds in there. I don't want to deal with the mauve, but I imagine that they will be easy to spot in the chicks.

Raising the bantams was very hard on me last year. I culled all the black chicks at hatch last year as I was using a split over the black hens to get the chocolate pullets. I couldn't sell the bantams in my area and had to do the unthinkable to the little ones.

I've already got the third generation on the ground. I will take my best split cockerel to put back over black hens again. I think this will yield the fast results as far as type, size and egg color. The fourth generation will be 93.75% ameraucana.

Yes, I am willing to work with you and anyone that is serious about them. I have sold a few, but most people want a chocolate male right away to go with them and I don't see that as the best way to improve the birds. I really want them to be REAL ameraucanas.

Hello- do you still breed chocolate Ameraucanas?

 

[PLwarped59]

Does anyone still have chocolate Ameraucanas?

 

[PNWchkns]

Does anyone still have chocolate Ameraucanas?

I was able to attain a flock from a breeder. I am working on bringing them more to Ameraucana form. Just had one of my first chocolates hatch.

Will probably offer hatching eggs.

 

[PLwarped59]

I was able to attain a flock from a breeder. I am working on bringing them more to Ameraucana form. Just had one of my first chocolates hatch.

Will probably offer hatching eggs.

If you do, I will definitely want some. I want to help the chocolate project along. Ameraucanas look so good in that color.

 

[blbrown8836]

I was able to attain a flock from a breeder. I am working on bringing them more to Ameraucana form. Just had one of my first chocolates hatch.

Will probably offer hatching eggs.

Do you have any Chocolate Ameraucana males, pairs, chicks or eggs?