Lavender Ameraucana Breeders .... UNITE

[CoalCreekFarms]

 

[CoalCreekFarms]

 

[CoalCreekFarms]

 

[medicgal82]

This is our rescued lavender Ameraucana, at least I was told it is lavender. It's about 2-3 weeks old now, the baby of my crew of 9 chickens. Can you tell if it a rooster or pullet at this age? And is it a lavender for sure? She was free, the lady just wanted her to have a home with friends her own age to make sure she lived!

 

[pips&peeps]

In that third picture as a small chick it appears to be a lavender. It also appears to be a cockerel. I see three distinct rows of a pea comb.

 

[medicgal82]

In that third picture as a small chick it appears to be a lavender.  It also appears to be a cockerel.  I see three distinct rows of a pea comb.

The largest photo is the day we got the chick, smaller is yesterday. I'm still new to the chicken world and I have no clue how to sex them.

 

[FowlStuff]

This is our rescued lavender Ameraucana, at least I was told it is lavender. It's about 2-3 weeks old now, the baby of my crew of 9 chickens. Can you tell if it a rooster or pullet at this age? And is it a lavender for sure? She was free, the lady just wanted her to have a home with friends her own age to make sure she lived!

Here are some day-old lavender Ameraucana chicks to compare with. I think some appear to have a reddish cast, in the center, from the camera flash.

 

[HippyGardener]

I'm so happy to be able to take part in this thread now. I've been stalking it for quite a while, but just got my lav ams this past Saturday. ANNND i just found out that ones we got from Sutton Farms came from John Blehm's line originally.

We picked up 5 Lavender Ameraucanas from Sutton Farms in FL, along with 3 bantam frizzle cochins.

I feel so nerd happy to know where these ams came from after reading his name over and over again in this thread.


They're 2 & 3 weeks old. If I look closely at the combs I can see both single and triple pea combs, but these are siblings since Sutton Farms had a rooster and two hens in her pen.

The rest we got from Sawmill Chicken Farm (all pics below). Some lavenders and some splashes, a blue and a black Am. Most of those are super tiny except for one gigantor splash, which I believe is a girl.

Blue:

Black:

Splash gigantor:


I'm not yet sure where Sawmill's line came from. I'm going to call Steve this week to ask more questions. His place was so awesome that it was a little overwhelming. We saw every bird and animal he had. LOL! Maybe someone on here knows his line and can enlighten me on that?

Anyway, thanks for this amazing thread. I'm only on page 56, reading and hanging on every single word. So educational. So much to learn. I'm brand new to breeding chickens, but I did do a little with mice a few years ago so we read some about genetics. Though I absolutely consider myself a total noob. I'm pretty excited to jump into a challenging project like lavs to really learn a lot right off the bat. A friend bought all these chicks. I'm brooding them for her in exchange for all but the 5 hens she wants. So I'll end up with quite a lot of them.

 

[FowlStuff]

I'm so happy to be able to take part in this thread now. I've been stalking it for quite a while, but just got my lav ams this past Saturday. ANNND i just found out that ones we got from Sutton Farms came from John Blehm's line originally.

You'll find that if they could be traced back you would find just about every LF black, blue, buff, white, lavender and others came from the ones I "originally" (as you said) created. But keep in mind when someone breeds them the offspring are now their line. They may be better and may be worse than the parent stock and too often fanciers claim birds are someone's line when they are one or more generations removed. Others may have done some outcrosses and crossbreeding and that breeding (good or bad) is something that can only be credited to the breeder that did it.

 

[samouw]

I'm so happy to be able to take part in this thread now. I've been stalking it for quite a while, but just got my lav ams this past Saturday. ANNND i just found out that ones we got from Sutton Farms came from John Blehm's line originally.

We picked up 5 Lavender Ameraucanas from Sutton Farms in FL, along with 3 bantam frizzle cochins.

I feel so nerd happy to know where these ams came from after reading his name over and over again in this thread.


They're 2 & 3 weeks old. If I look closely at the combs I can see both single and triple pea combs, but these are siblings since Sutton Farms had a rooster and two hens in her pen.

The rest we got from Sawmill Chicken Farm (all pics below). Some lavenders and some splashes, a blue and a black Am. Most of those are super tiny except for one gigantor splash, which I believe is a girl.

Blue:

Black:

Splash gigantor:


I'm not yet sure where Sawmill's line came from. I'm going to call Steve this week to ask more questions. His place was so awesome that it was a little overwhelming. We saw every bird and animal he had. LOL! Maybe someone on here knows his line and can enlighten me on that?

Anyway, thanks for this amazing thread. I'm only on page 56, reading and hanging on every single word. So educational. So much to learn. I'm brand new to breeding chickens, but I did do a little with mice a few years ago so we read some about genetics. Though I absolutely consider myself a total noob. I'm pretty excited to jump into a challenging project like lavs to really learn a lot right off the bat. A friend bought all these chicks. I'm brooding them for her in exchange for all but the 5 hens she wants. So I'll end up with quite a lot of them.

Cute chicks! I know you're thrilled to get started with them.

Just for historical accuracy and to give credit where credit is due, Harry Shaffer also created his own line of lavenders, aka self-blue, at about the same time that John Blehm and Michael Muenks were working on their line. Those lines have crossed so much in the past years, that it would be hard to identify either one as the progenitor of all self-blues in the Ameraucana breed.

Most of the LF and bantam breeds were developed concurrently by many people across the Mid-West..and California..in the early years of the breed. The first bantams to actually be accepted into the ABA were whites and wheatens, which, if I remember my history correctly, were then bred up to standard size - mostly by Jerry Segler, Mike Gilbert, and Don Cable. (Although it may have been the other way around - LF bred down into bantams - my brain is dead tonight and I can't remember - but either way, it was whites and wheatens that were first developed)