New Ameraucana Color

[TexasLady]

Not for a minute would I consider myself an expert.

But I got some eggs from someone....

Now I got a cockerel (this shows how he is colored)





(This is a better picture of his actual coloring.)





And this is a pullet.





You probably can't see her feathers, but they are blue laced.

I thought that he was a real odd color (since I was trying to get a specific color). But as I got to looking at him, I thought he was interesting colored.

I showed him to someone else, and although not at all a chicken expert, he thought he was one of the nicest colored birds I had. (I also have some Silver Penciled Rocks, Black and Lavender Ameraucanas) and some Orpingtons with a Lemon Marans and two Cuckoo cockerels. So the guy started calling the rooster, "The Eagle." He wanted to purchase him. I wouldn't sell him.

I thought, "Well, this is a rather interesting color." I wonder if it is worthwhile to breed.

So I showed my birds to another person. She has been in 4H all her life (and she's middle aged now), and she didn't much see anything except, "I like that hawk looking bird." (That's The Eagle.)

So what do you think? Should I try replicating this color? Should I try to improve on it? I think what they like is his head coloring along wth the variety of feather colors in the bird.

I am not an expert, but that doesn't mean that the bird is't worth preserving. It could be that someone who is an expert will see the line down the road and want to continue it.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[poularde]

I could not see the picture of the pullet. The cockerel looks like he is a blue wheaten.

 

[TexasLady]

I fixed the image. I hope you can see it now. Thanks for replying.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/260740/blue-wheaten-ameraucana-rooster-rosenberg-tx

I don't think he is the right color for a blue wheaten.

Do Blue Wheaten hens have laced feathers?

 

[draye]

Not saying he is, but that cockeral looks like he is crossed with a Salmon Faverolle ( that beard is what makes me think that).
Could be that hen is crossed to Blue Laced Red Wyandotte.
I'm by far not an expert just observing from the pictures.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Blue wheatens do go through a phase where they look laced. He looks a bit off though, and BW pullets are never blue like that. I think you just got lucky and had a wheaten colored bird somewhere in the mix.