Laced Ameraucanas?

[tadkerson]

Quote:
What you have on your birds is not spangling but the results of a bird not having the correct combination of genes for lacing. This false spangling is caused when a bird carries a gene for melanotic and one gene for pattern.

Tim

 

[eggdd]

*blink*

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

Quote:
What you have on your birds is not spangling but the results of a bird not having the correct combination of genes for lacing. This false spangling is caused when a bird carries a gene for melanotic and one gene for pattern.

Tim

Thanks Tim, thus the quotation marks. I figured it would not behave genetically as true spangling, but in appearance it does resemble the pattern. I thought it was pretty, whatever it was.

I assume you would have to breed back to a laced bird to complete the gene combination for full lacing, or could you breed to another partially laced bird?

 

[tadkerson]

Yes you would have to back cross to a laced breed.

tim

 

[Dream Chaser]

What color Eggs do these lay???

 

[amanda90]

I have some laced Easter Eggers...

Wondering if that's what I have

This one has gotten more lacing as she has matured... don't have any recent pictures. They are crosses fromm EE's and a Gold laced Wyandotte roo

 

[Paulyboi]

Hi! I have kept a backyard flock for years, though we've lived in the suburbs so I couldn't have a rooster. My husband and I are planning to move to a place with some land in 2012 - which to me, means ROOSTER(s)! I have a couple of Ameraucana hens and would like to get more. I have no intention to show or sell; we will eat the eggs, and if we have chicks, they can either stay on the farm, go to live with one of the many farmers I know, or we can eat extra cockerels. To be overrun with chickens - oh, what a problem to have! Hahaha!

I am considering what kind of rooster to get. I really like the look of Wyandottes' lacing, and their gentle temperament. In your experience, is there any combination of laced Wyandotte over Ameraucanas that might result in laced chicks? I don't know much about the lacing gene. I have no intention of trying to get a new color approved by the APA or anything fancy like that, just considering a fun backyard project I could tinker with for the next decade or so.