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

[MeanV2]

Paul Smith wins a lot.He sells out fast.Jensen Piersen usually does well at shows.Check the for sale on BYC.Someone had some for sale with Smith and Blehm lines.

jerryse do have contact info on Paul Smith or Jensen Piersen?

Dan

 

[jerryse]

Check the Ameraucana breeders club breeders list.

 

[MeanV2]

Check the Ameraucana breeders club breeders list.

Will Do!

Dan

 

[jerryse]

Candled eggs today.Some fertility from the splash cockerel.Since I trimmed his feathers on a friday and set on monday a few is all I expected.Problem solved.

 

[Outrun Acres]

Candled eggs today.Some fertility from the splash cockerel.Since I trimmed his feathers on a friday and set on monday a few is all I expected.Problem solved.

Glad to hear that Jerry! Hopefully you will get some chicks from that pen in the future? I have a question about blues for you. From what I have heard they don't breed true and a certain percentage of your chicks will be black or splash along with blue. Is this true? If it is, why isn't splash an approved color? It this what you are working on with your splash cockerel?

I'm asking because I found a local breeder that gave me very descriptive honest answers about her birds and her breeding program and I think I would like to purchase hatching eggs from her. She has black and blue birds originally from Paul Smiths lines. I am trying to figure out which color to get or if I should get eggs for both colors.

 

[jerryse]

Glad to hear that Jerry! Hopefully you will get some chicks from that pen in the future? I have a question about blues for you. From what I have heard they don't breed true and a certain percentage of your chicks will be black or splash along with blue. Is this true? If it is, why isn't splash an approved color? It this what you are working on with your splash cockerel?

I'm asking because I found a local breeder that gave me very descriptive honest answers about her birds and her breeding program and I think I would like to purchase hatching eggs from her. She has black and blue birds originally from Paul Smiths lines. I am trying to figure out which color to get or if I should get eggs for both colors.

Splash to black 100% blue.That is what I am after.Blue sells well so I can pay the feed bill.Black to blue 50/50.Blue to blue 50% blue 25% black 25% splash.You can't go wrong with Paul Smith lines.

 

[jerryse]

Forgot to mention No new colors have been added to the ameraucana standard since their acceptance.Just couldn't meet the requirements at the time.We were glad to get them accepted.There has been talk of trying to get them accepted.My guess is when they go for lavender they will also go for splash and splash wheaten.

 

[Outrun Acres]

Splash to black 100% blue.That is what I am after.Blue sells well so I can pay the feed bill.Black to blue 50/50.Blue to blue 50% blue 25% black 25% splash.You can't go wrong with Paul Smith lines.

The breeder just emailed me back and said the same thing. She said Paul Smith told her his best blues always came from black to splash breedings. She said her blacks are her best stock so she is starting to breed her blacks to splash hens to try to get better type into her blues.

These are her breeding pens right now:

Black to Splash
Black to Black
Blue to Blue
And a cross that produces 100% splash? What would that be?

She said I could get eggs from one or multiple pens. My goal is nice blues. So I am thinking of getting eggs from the black to splash pen the black to black and whatever she is combining to get the all splash. So I should get black, blue, and splash chicks which would give me a few options. I guess the other way I would go would be to get eggs from the all black pen and eggs from the all splash pen and cross the offspring to get F1 blues. Decisions, decisions. Do splash Ameraucanas tend to have fertility issues or is it just a problem with your particular cockeral?

She did say that in her experience Ameraucanas have proved to be more difficult to hatch. Has anyone else had any problems with fertility or hatchibility in regards to this breed?

 

[Outrun Acres]

Forgot to mention No new colors have been added to the ameraucana standard since their acceptance.Just couldn't meet the requirements at the time.We were glad to get them accepted.There has been talk of trying to get them accepted.My guess is when they go for lavender they will also go for splash and splash wheaten.

I was noticing when researching other breeds that there was a pattern occurring. It seemed as though breeds that had APA approved blues also had APA approved splash. So I thought it was kind of strange that splash is not an APA approved color for Ameraucanas with it's close association to blacks and blues. I kind of posed this question in my previous post. What colors would you have to combine to get 100% splash?

 

[Little Wing]

The breeder just emailed me back and said the same thing. She said Paul Smith told her his best blues always came from black to splash breedings. She said her blacks are her best stock so she is starting to breed her blacks to splash hens to try to get better type into her blues.

These are her breeding pens right now:

Black to Splash
Black to Black
Blue to Blue
And a cross that produces 100% splash? What would that be?

She said I could get eggs from one or multiple pens. My goal is nice blues. So I am thinking of getting eggs from the black to splash pen the black to black and whatever she is combining to get the all splash. So I should get black, blue, and splash chicks which would give me a few options. I guess the other way I would go would be to get eggs from the all black pen and eggs from the all splash pen and cross the offspring to get F1 blues. Decisions, decisions. Do splash Ameraucanas tend to have fertility issues or is it just a problem with your particular cockeral?

She did say that in her experience Ameraucanas have proved to be more difficult to hatch. Has anyone else had any problems with fertility or hatchibility in regards to this breed?

This thread helped me a lot with Black, Blue, Splash. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/73357/color-genes-punnett-squares