Real Ameraucana causing confusion

[donrae]

I wonder if you'd get a color like that from intensive splash breeding?

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

I wonder if you'd get a color like that from intensive splash breeding?

That's what I was wondering. The bird looks like a Splash with no black leakage.

The feathers just don't look quite right for a white Ameraucana.

 

[donrae]

That's what I was wondering. The bird looks like a Splash with no black leakage.

The feathers just don't look quite right for a white Ameraucana.

Great minds

 

[goldfinches]

I don't know much about most of the Ameraucana colors, so I don't know the splash/blue/black or white specs. This guy seems albino to me, though, with those pinkish eye sockets and pasty beak and comb.

 

[donrae]

I'm not sure if chickens come in albino? But he does look to have dark legs.

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

A true albino would have a complete lack of pigmentation so they would be solid white, including beak, skin, shanks, plus no pigement in the eyes which is what makes them appear red.

A leucistic animal has a very small amount of pigment and is not an albino. Usually the animal would be mostly white with blue/light colored eyes and points/paint markings of darker colored skin.

I do not think there are any reported cases of albino or leucistic chickens though.

 

[goldfinches]

A true albino would have a complete lack of pigmentation so they would be solid white, including beak, skin, shanks, plus no pigement in the eyes which is what makes them appear red.

A leucistic animal has a very small amount of pigment and is not an albino. Usually the animal would be mostly white with blue/light colored eyes and points/paint markings of darker colored skin.

I do not think there are any reported cases of albino or leucistic chickens though.

Great info. Thanks!