Lavender Ameraucana Breeders .... UNITE

[Penny Hen]

my understanding that in MOST breeds you should select against slow feathering. patterned breeds is different. my slw and blrw and GSBR are very very slow feathering and that is a great thing.

It was explained to me on the Barred Holland thread that the slow feathering + the Columbian gene + the Barr gene = clear clean barring. The Barred gene alone gives you the Cuckoo appearance. It is also useful if you want to be able to sex your roosters before they crow.

If you think you are ever going to breed barred Lavenders then it would seem like a keeping it would be good. But if you are sticking to solids you don't have to have it.

 

[CibolaChooks]

OK, so I am a brand new chicken lady And I am just dipping the surface learning about breeding. I know there is lots of controversy about EEs vs Ameraucanas etc. But here is what I just inherited and I am hoping you can tell me what they are/are not and what is right/wrong about them. I have no emotional attachment to them being one thing or another and eagerly encourage your honest critique so I can learn to know what I am looking at. The woman I got these from said the they came to her as "Lavender Ameraucanas", I think she hatched the eggs. She had 2 roos, and I took the one with the larger beard, LOL! The pullet was supposed to be a lavender Ameraucana as well. I am guessing from reading this she is a split? But I am not seeing the beard or anything so....??? Thank you!

I would be very careful with those guinea when they mature. Guineas will latch onto you chickens and run around the yard kicking them for hundreds of yards and wont stop. You will be lucky if it just does that and not the super fast hard pecks. Guineas are a real pain in the *** once they think they are a chicken. Id pen them separate and away from each other.

 

[familypendragon]

Interesting, I've never heard that about the guineas

My friend that suggested getting them for bug control has always had them all free ranging together without problems. To be honest hers don't even stay entirely on their property. Mine so far though barely want to leave the run. They fly out over the fence only to spend the rest of the day stupidly banging their head into the fencing repeatedly trying to get back in

One actually broke his own neck and died running away from me as I tried to catch him to help him into the run. I tried to raise them in a way that would tame them but it didn't happen. They are total psycho freaks...

 

[DMRippy]

Here is my silver roo I got for goose and fig. I don't have him anymore.




He was very silver looking in his hackles and saddle feathers. Very pretty coloring.

 

[kaybee123]

Here is my silver roo I got for goose and fig. I don't have him anymore. He was very silver looking in his hackles and saddle feathers. Very pretty coloring.

Beautiful!

 

[ChickNmamma]

Here is my silver roo I got for goose and fig. I don't have him anymore.




He was very silver looking in his hackles and saddle feathers. Very pretty coloring.

Wow, that almost looks like a Lavender, not a Silver.. is that Blue Silver? Splash Silver?

 

[DMRippy]

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He is Lavender and silver. A reg silver would be black with silver but he is lavender with silver.

 

[ChickNmamma]

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He is Lavender and silver. A reg silver would be black with silver but he is lavender with silver.

Ok, let's see if I understand correctly - he is a Silver with Lavender - so the black is Lavender but the Silver stays Silver? The Lavender does not affect the Silver?

I wonder what the hens would look like.. Silver hens with Lavender.. sort of like Porcelean? Ooooh, that sounds so PRETTY!

He is very handsome.

Of my two young Lavender boys, one is an even lavender color, the other looks like he has "leakage" of silver on his hackles and saddle area. He sort of looks like that guy - only the genetics are different, right?

 

[pips&peeps]

He is Lavender and silver. A reg silver would be black with silver but he is lavender with silver.

He is not complete silver though.

 

[aldarita]

My am cockerels are 9 weeks old, when do cockerels start crowing?