I know both parents. What is the gender?

[Coops Dad]

Are her parents both the same coloration?

Her mom was a blue and her dad was a lavender.

 

[kurby22]

Her oil gland is working, I just checked it. There's a dark patch of dust on her feathers over it and it seems to express properly- I rubbed it and came away with slightly oily fingers. And no, water doesn't bead on her feathers, she gets soaked. I know she doesn't go out of the tractor shed when it's wet out and she's the reason the feeder is in the tractor shed.

No head bobbing or shaking. I check regularly for mites and haven't had a problem with them. I dust their bedding with a smidge of permethrin when I change it, and I add diatomaceous earth in their dust bath depressions whenever I think of it. Yeah, I know how some people feel about DE.

She's an incubator chick, that hatch went 19 for 22 and she's the only oddity out of it. I've had a couple of small chickens over the years but this one is the first one with, you know, ODDness.

She looks depressed/ill in that pic but she's almost always moving so this is the only still shot I have of her where she's not a blur. She runs back and forth under my feet until I pick her up and carry her around as I do my chores.

This is also her.

She does look like a she! And a lavender? She looks a lot like mine, minus the oddities I have one who is pretty little, and growing in feathers MUCH slower than her sister. She’s also my friendliest and most favorite girl. What a sweet little girl, she’s just special is all! I just love Ameraucanas

 

[cherrynberry]

Her mom was a blue and her dad was a lavender.

Some people do not consider that PURE, but it technically is.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Some people do not consider that PURE, but it technically is.

Technically it is, yes.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Her mom was a blue and her dad was a lavender.

Was her mom split to lav? Just curious.

 

[Coops Dad]

Was her mom split to lav? Just curious.

That's a mystery. I have two lavender hens and two blue hens but only the one lavender rooster. Since they've thrown lavender, blue, gray, freckled and this one multicolor rooster as offspring, I realized a while back that I got what I paid for- Ameracaunas of dubious lineage.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

That's a mystery. I have two lavender hens and two blue hens but only the one lavender rooster. Since they've thrown lavender, blue, gray, freckled and this one multicolor rooster as offspring, I realized a while back that I got what I paid for- Ameracaunas of dubious lineage.

Yeah, I doubt they’re of good breeding if they’re throwing those colors

 

[Coops Dad]

Yeah, I doubt they’re of good breeding if they’re throwing those colors

I knew going in that they weren't show birds. I wanted a line that would lay blue-green eggs to cross with my cuckoo Marans. These lay really nice colors, one is nearly sky blue. I've bred the rooster with my Marans and had three of 4 eggs hatch on the 31st. I'm hoping for pullets...