Is this an ameraucana??

[Mahonri]

Hang around the breeding and genetics section, you'll learn alot here.

 

[19hhbelgian]

You don't want him... Right??

Let me know when I can come get him

He is absolutely beautiful!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Yep- runaway thread! I wouldn't count him out of a breeding program. He's gorgeous! I'd use him with an EE (blue or green layer) or an olive egger. Try to stay with the wheaten color girls if you have any.

 

[halo]

Good golly, thats a beautiful roo. I just love love love EEs.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I don't understand. What re you saying "Nope" to? I thought a SC is pprr? Which would be recessive? From what I've read there are only two types of comb genes - pea and rose. All other comb types come from variations of those two genes. Am I missing something?

God Bless,

Yes, single comb is pprr. Hoewever there are several additional comb genes--just less common, and so usually not mentioned. My "Nope" was to

Tailfeathers wrote:
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Just a point of clarification to Sonoran's comment on the pea comb gene. Actually the single comb DOES have a pea comb gene AND a rose comb gene. They just are all recessive and therefore cannot produce a PC or RC. At least that's my understanding...

which implies that single comb has rose and pea comb genes (as in R & P). When I refer to alleles that prevent the trait for which a gene is named, I use "not-" in front of it, as is "not-pea comb" and "not-rose comb."

From your clarification, it sounds like we meant the same thing; I didn't understand your earlier post as you intended.

Other comb genes are duplex, which has three alleles (D^V, D^C, d+) and breda (Bd+, bd) with two. Duplex, like rose and pea is dominant; breda is recessive. http://www.edelras.nl/chickengenetics/mutations2.html#gen_mut_comb​

 

[Minniechickmama]

Obviously some of you have been doing this for quite a while. Can I ask something without sounding like a complete idiot regarding this egg color/pea comb thing? I don't mean to over-simplify, but how many times does it happen that a bird, or any animal for that matter has been carrying a recessive gene for a few generations and then you get some weird trait that pops up and it doesn't seem to make any sense? The pink egg color, for instance. Three generations of your breeding, Steve, of 'staying pure' is great, but that doesn't mean there wasn't a gene for the pink egg being masked for more than three gens. Am I correct? If there is one thing any of us that have bred livestock of any species has seen if you do it long enough, is that you can see things remain masked for generations that suddenly pop up seemingly out of nowhere. So, my thought would be, you had a masked gene that came into your flock and now is to a point of becoming more prevalent. I think that sometimes maybe when we start to analyze all these factors so much in trying to figure out the answer that maybe it could be something simple is the answer. Just a thought, don't shoot me or anything if I am completely out in left field. Breeding animals is not an exact science, and because nature has her variables that don't always stay consistent, sometimes, she throws us a curve. It happens.

 

[Mahonri]

I had an EE with a pea comb that laid a light, tan colored egg. I was a bit disappointed, expecting green.

So far all of my Ameraucanas have given me blue... one with a slight tint of green but mostly blue.

 

[McSpin]

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As I said, it didn't surprise me that a hidden trait popped up. It was the fact the the trait supposedly does not exist in any chickens. I'm getting pink egg shells when I should be getting white or blue, because pink shells do not exist.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I have seen this pink that you speak of but I think for all intents and purposes it is still considered a light brown. One of the base colors for brown is red (I am talking color spectrum and primary versus secondary versus tertiary colors). So, the fact that some eggs are actually pink is quite possible. But I don't think anyone is jumping on the people writing the standards and saying "I know chickens lay pink eggs" Perhaps it is just a sort of washed out color issue. I like pink eggs, but I would be shocked if one was actually red. Then again, some of the Marans eggs have a red glow to them. I think it all makes sense from that perspective.
The real point of all of this is your Amer. are laying other than the blue you would like them to. As long as no one is judging them based on their egg color, you have two options. Cull out the ones you know lay these pink eggs and only keep the blues or say What the Heck, they are still good chickens.
Me, I like variety, so pink is cool. So is blue and any other shade.
Are you line breeding? Perhaps if you are, that is why the gene is popping up so much, perhaps one that will only surface when breeding a certain line back?
Good luck trying to figure that conundrum out.
I see you round the forum. Would like to see some of your stock if you could send me some pics on PM? I have a mutt roo from McM and I have some one order from Sand Hill just for the sake of having some. But if I were to get more interested in going with a good line, I would like to have some contacts to get eggs or birds from.

 

[McSpin]

You're missing my point. This is not about the name of the color or that the line is not laying blue eggs. It's about the fact the this egg shell is not white with a brown pigment layer on the surface. It's a color that goes all the way through the egg shell. From what I've read, the brown pigment it supposed to be only on the surface of a white shell.