Pea comb sexing ameraucanas

[schatze]

Two of my hens had been incubating nearly two dozen eggs. One blue and three brown eggs hatched, but then they started cracking open and eating the chicks in the blue eggs. I removed those eggs and placed them in the incubator.

Three of the incubated eggs have hatched, and one is in the process of hatching. How soon can you sex ameraucanas by pea comb? The newest chick who is only about an hour out of shell has a much broader comb than the other two.

For those concerned about my having the new chicks outside, it's 99-100 outside, and humidity tends to stay around 65% or higher here, so they're not going to get cold during the day.

 

[lazy gardener]

A lot depends on the breeding of your birds. Where did they come from? Are they Ameraucanas from a breeder? Or are they from a hatchery or a feed store, or back yard flock? In any of the other cases, the combs may not breed true, and the wider comb that you are seeing may be a rose or a walnut comb. Not as likely to happen with Ameraucanas that are bred to standard of perfection by a breeder. Most often, birds that are sold as Ameraucanas by feed stores and hatcheries are Easter Eggers (even though they call them Ameraucanas) They will have much variation of color patterns, and their combs, muffs and beards will not be standard. Cute chicks. Are you going to try to put them with the Broody hens? Glad you were able to save them. BTW, I love my Easter Eggers! IMO, they are better layers than Ameraucanas!

 

[schatze]

Sorry, I didn't get a notice anyone replied. My hens are all blue wheaten ameraucanas from a breeder. The roosters, however, are not. One is a white favorelle, one is a silkied splash ameraucana (100% ameraucana but with silkied feathers), one is half ameraucana and half French marans (bearded and feathered feet/legs), the other living roosters are silkies, but they tend to only hang out with each other.

So far, only the black and tan chick has tail feathers, so I think she's a girl. I think my oldest yellow one and the all black one (even his skin is black) are males because they do that jumping at each other motion I've seen in my other roos.

After I took those photos, another very docile yellow chick hatched who I think it female, and then yesterday, a week later, I went to dump the incubator and found a newly hatched chick in there. She has a wide come with three distinct rows. She looks like the blue wheaten chicks but has very pronounced beard fuzz (they all have) and feathered feet and legs.