The Ameraucana Thread: Where everything and anything about the breed can be discussed (APA, Non-Stan

[Alaskan]

Those are gorgeous!! Both eggs and chickens!

 

[kayakfish]

I was very lucky to obtain them from a lady that just couldn't do the poultry thing anymore, and wanted someone that would keep them pure, to get them. I will sell some of her chicks and eggs if anyone is interested. Chicks are 10.00 each straight run and eggs 6 for 20.00. I have had a 100% fertility rate from her with the first 6 I hatched, and have 8 more in the incubator all forming. I live in Central VA, so chicks only locally unless you want to travel, but eggs in can ship in Medium flat rate, or express for the actual cost.

 

[jerryse]

Project colors Lavender cuckoo / cuckoo . I have eggs available on the 24 hour auction thread . You can also PM me .

 

[Alaskan]

Very snazzy chickens. But no more eggs here!

 

[rnleffew84]

Hello All,
I am new to chickens and just got 11 straight run wheaten, blue wheaten, splash chicks about 1 week ago from a breeder. I know they are too young to sex at this point but I am having trouble finding info one when and how you can start sexing them. Can anyone point me to some good resources? Or tell me how you do it? Any advice is appreciated

 

[jerryse]

Fairly easy on the wheaten family . Look for black or blue in the breast of males and buff on females .

 

[roodawg]

I got these chicks at about 6 weeks old. They were sold as Ameraucana. They have muffs and tuffs, slate legs, bottoms of feet are white. Four are splash and three are supposed to be blue but look like a dark splash to me. Close up is a blue cock. I know the splash are not an excepted color, my question is are these EEs or Ameraucana? Seller did not have parent stock, said she bought eggs from a breeder and then decided she didn't want to add this breed to her program.

 

[cgmaster]

Hi all I have a total of 6 purebred ameraucanas a young trio of blacks, two wheaten roosters and a blue wheaten hen. I have many planned projects, I plan on eventually making white wheaten (wheaten with dominant white), buff laced white, barred wheaten (simalar to crele but wheaten based), and dominant white ameraucanas. I will be using an EE that looks to be wheaten based with dominant white for two of those projects I will use him for white wheaten and I will cross him with my blacks to introduce the dominant white there. I also plan on breeding splash wheaten eventually. I crossed one if my wheaten roosters with a hatcher white laced Cornish and got this beauty:

Here are my blacks:

Here is one of my wheaten Roos with my blue wheaten hen:

Here is the EE roo:

This is him a bit younger:

I have an update on these, I still have not managed to hatch any of their eggs, and I now only have a pair of pure Ams 2 blacks, I have several EEs though. The ee roo with dominant white is now covering my ee hen with dominant white (who's eggs I will give to a friend who seems to have better luck hatching), a jersey giant X white leghorn hen,and a typically colored ee hen who lays nice large blue eggs. My black am rooster will be covering a black am pullet, a typically colored ee hen and a silver wheaten looking ee hen after I show him in January

 

[Alaskan]

I got these chicks at about 6 weeks old. They were sold as Ameraucana. They have muffs and tuffs, slate legs, bottoms of feet are white. Four are splash and three are supposed to be blue but look like a dark splash to me. Close up is a blue cock. I know the splash are not an excepted color, my question is are these EEs or Ameraucana? Seller did not have parent stock, said she bought eggs from a breeder and then decided she didn't want to add this breed to her program.

They look like pure Ams to me.... how are the eggs?

 

[Alaskan]

I have an update on these, I still have not managed to hatch any of their eggs, and I now only have a pair of pure Ams 2 blacks, I have several EEs though. The ee roo with dominant white is now covering my ee hen with dominant white (who's eggs I will give to a friend who seems to have better luck hatching), a jersey giant X white leghorn hen,and a typically colored ee hen who lays nice large blue eggs. My black am rooster will be covering a black am pullet, a typically colored ee hen and a silver wheaten looking ee hen after I show him in January

Dang! Such a shame on the eggs.

What happened with the Wheatens?


For hatching..... I find increasing the nutrition of the breeders, about a week before starting to gather eggs to incubate, helps. I like to use nutritional yeast as the boost for my breeders.