My Silver Duckwing Project PIC HEAVY

[suki'smom]

I wasn't sure where to post this but here seemed appropriate. This is a project that I am very excited about and it kinda came about unexpectedly. Ever since I have seen photos of pure silver duckwing Ameraucana's I have wanted them. They are so lovely and I hope to breed them someday. When I hatched my first batch of chicks I had one hatch out that I was quite certain was an EE roo because I had ordered EE's a few times in the past and all the ones that looked similar to this chick were males whereas the more plain colored ones were girls. Anyways this chick grew up into a lovely silver duckwing pullet. Wow! A fluke right? Nope. In every hatch since I have had these lovely silver duckwing pullets pop up. 2 out of 12, 1 out of 11, 4 out of 42, and 4 out of 34.

I don't know what hen(s) these chicks are coming from or even of they are "pure" EE or if they are OE's. The flock these came from consists of one "silverish" colored EE roo "Rooster" (pictured below) and the hens are 3 EE's (1 pure white, 1 orange/black, and one brown/orange/black), 3 Speckled Sussex, 3 Black Giants, 3 Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, 3 Polish, 3 Welsummers, and 3 Buff Orpingtons. All my silver duckwing pullets have green legs and muffs and I'm pretty sure they all have pea combs. I currently have 6 of them of different ages and I wish to start my breeding project.

Now my main dilemma is this: I have no silver duckwing cockerels. At least I don't think so. The one "silverish" cockerel I do have with green legs does not look like what a true silver duckwing rooster should. Again, at least I don't think so. He looks a lot like what my rooster did when he was young, which isn't what I want. Now I don't expect a perfect silver duckwing boy to come from my mixed bunch but I was hoping for something that came close that would be useful for breeding.

I did go take a look at what color cockerels that my buyers ended up with, and two came close, but they both have yellow legs so they either came from my BLRW or my Welsummers. Ugh. Since I am hoping these girls are "pure" EE's (won't know until the oldest begins to lay) I don't want to mix in other blood.

At this point I am hoping to either come across some cheap silver duckwing Ameraucana hatching eggs (not likely), or a surplus silver duckwing Ameraucana cockerel close to me (also not likely). I do have one off sport silvery chick that I was hoping would be a rooster (how often does someone hope that? LOL) but I am quite sure it is a female. Ugh.

Anyway here are some photos

My "silverish" EE roo, Rooster



My oldest silver duckwing pullet hatched 4-17-12




My middle silver duckwing pullet hatched 6-12-12. She has a bit of reddish coloring on her.





One of my youngest silver duckwing pullets hatched 7-11-12




My off sport silvery pullet? hatched 7-11-12




My "silverish" cockerel, hatched 6-12-12. He has reddish feathers coming in like Rooster's.




So does anyone have some surplus silver duckwing Ameraucana cockerels they are willing to rehome? Or some hatching eggs?

Thanks for looking!

 

[nicalandia]

I wasn't sure where to post this but here seemed appropriate. This is a project that I am very excited about and it kinda came about unexpectedly. Ever since I have seen photos of pure silver Ameraucana's I have wanted them. They are so lovely and I hope to breed them someday. When I hatched my first batch of chicks I had one hatch out that I was quite certain was an EE roo because I had ordered EE's a few times in the past and all the ones that looked similar to this chick were males whereas the more plain colored ones were girls. Anyways this chick grew up into a lovely silver pullet. Wow! A fluke right? Nope. In every hatch since I have had these lovely silver pullets pop up. 2 out of 12, 1 out of 11, 4 out of 42, and 4 out of 34.

I don't know what hen(s) these chicks are coming from or even of they are "pure" EE or if they are OE's. The flock these came from consists of one "silverish" colored EE roo "Rooster" (pictured below) and the hens are 3 EE's (1 pure white, 1 orange/black, and one brown/orange/black), 3 Speckled Sussex, 3 Black Giants, 3 Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, 3 Polish, 3 Welsummers, and 3 Buff Orpingtons. All my silver pullets have green legs and muffs and I'm pretty sure they all have pea combs. I currently have 6 of them of different ages and I wish to start my breeding project.

Now my main dilemma is this: I have no silver cockerels. At least I don't think so. The one "silverish" cockerel I do have with green legs does not look like what a true silver rooster should. Again, at least I don't think so. He looks a lot like what my rooster did when he was young, which isn't what I want. Now I don't expect a perfect silver boy to come from my mixed bunch but I was hoping for something that came close that would be useful for breeding.

I did go take a look at what color cockerels that my buyers ended up with, and two came close, but they both have yellow legs so they either came from my BLRW or my Welsummers. Ugh. Since I am hoping these girls are "pure" EE's (won't know until the oldest begins to lay) I don't want to mix in other blood.

At this point I am hoping to either come across some cheap silver Ameraucana hatching eggs (not likely), or a surplus silver Ameraucana cockerel close to me (also not likely). I do have one off sport silver chick that I was hoping would be a rooster (how often does someone hope that? LOL) but I am quite sure it is a female. Ugh.

Anyway here are some photos

My "silverish" EE roo, Rooster




o does anyone have some surplus silver Ameraucana cockerels they are willing to rehome? Or some hatching eggs?

Thanks for looking!

when you say silver do you mean Silver Duckwing Ameraucana? https://www.google.com.ni/search?q=...Go8QSgjYCIBQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=677

or Columbian Ameraucanas? like columbian wyandottes? because your silverish roo is infact a Golden(S/s+ dominant sex linked silver and one copy of recessive sex linked gold s+) Columbian type of bird(check this link to see how a golden columbian looks like) http://www.google.com.ni/imgres?hl=...w=199&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:0,i:89

 

[suki'smom]

Oops sorry, yes I mean the silver duckwing coloration. I edited my original post to be more clear in my meaning

 

[nicalandia]

Oops sorry, yes I mean the silver duckwing coloration. I edited my original post to be more clear in my meaning

ok, post pics of the hens´s breast, that way I can see if they are real wildtype(duckwing) or eb based or maybe e+/eb cross, this is important

 

[suki'smom]

Ok I will try to get pictures tomorrow.

 

[nicalandia]

Ok I will try to get pictures tomorrow.

I´ll check them out and let you know

 

[suki'smom]

Ok here are some more photos

Here is my oldest silver pullet

My middle pullet

One of my youngest pullets

These two girls are the hatchmates of my oldest pullets and their patterns look very similar to my silver pullets, minus the buff color of course.

Even if these silver girls are not the true silver duckwing coloration, they are my favorite birds and I really want to make a breeding project out of them.

 

[Venns Farm]

I have some silver colored pullets I belive to be EE that I bought from Big R. Are the silverwings silver when young? I 'm brand new to chickens.

 

[suki'smom]

These were silver colored with brown stripes as chicks.

 

[suki'smom]

This is a pullet that I may be buying back (or borrowing back) from one of my buyers to add to my project flock.

If these girls turn out to be Olive Eggers instead of Easter Eggers, this is one of the roos I will be using instead of (or along with) a silver duckwing Ameraucana roo.