The AMERAUCANA thread

[I Like Turkeys]

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Do you do just pairs? When eggs are hatched from pairs do you only hatch 4-6 eggs (or a few more if laying daily) at a time from the pair?

Right now, from awkward stage 6 week old, it looks like I have 9 cockerels. I'm hoping not, will be trying to get some individual pics to better see them. But I'm hoping not, LOL.

And another set of 10 are just now 1 week old.

I've been trying to get all my flocks back on their feet for the last few months, so everything has been somewhat chaotic.

I do prefer pair/trio mating, and hatching smaller/medium clutches. I prefer to collect eggs for like 3-5 days before hatching. Smaller groups are easier to handle, plus it gives a better idea of how good the offspring from a specific parent are.
That being said, the last few hatches i've done, barring one, were from flock mating groups because I didn't have enough pens to separate everyone. Like 4 or 5 hens in with one rooster. I've got no clue which hen the weird colored cockerel came from, and the case is the same for most of my chicks at the moment.
Going forward I'm set up to start doing pair and trio matings again.

Hopefully you don't have 9 cockerels! That's a ton to deal with.

 

[AnimalCrazed]

Hello
I'm hoping someone can help me determine what I have as far as colors on my hen and her chicks.
To start off I've had Blue and Splash Ameraucanas for a while but I recently acquired another hen and wanted to pair her with my Splash Ameraucana rooster. She, to me, looks like a Splash Wheaten but I'm also wondering if she's not pure Ameraucana. I just hatched out a few of her eggs to see if I could determine if she was indeed pure but I'm confused about the color I got. I'm familiar with Blue/Black/Splash but Wheaten is new for me.
I'm not super bothered if she's not pure because she will still be great in my Olive Egger pen I was just hoping I could use her in my Ameraucana pen.

(The chick's pictures below have a gray coating to their legs and aren't as peachy colored as it appears on camera.
I'm also suspicious that I got the wrong egg for the second chick and could have hatched one of my CCL's. Anyone else think that might be the case too?!)

 

[NagemTX]

@AnimalCrazed

The top picture has spangling in splash so is not an Ameraucana. None of the chicks look like CCL but if you think number two is check the comb. The hen is an EE. The first chick looks like my spangled Spitzhauben and Ameraucana crosses so dB as base. It's used to get the spangled look.

The hen reminds me of my Chamois Spitzhauben.

 

[AnimalCrazed]

Both chicks do have pea combs. Whatever this hen is she does lay a very nice blue egg. I know her father was a Ameraucana and was pretty sure he's Blue. I may have to test hatch a few more eggs and make sure they are hers by separating her for a few days.

 

[NagemTX]

Both chicks do have pea combs. Whatever this hen is she does lay a very nice blue egg. I know her father was a Ameraucana and was pretty sure he's Blue. I may have to test hatch a few more eggs and make sure they are hers by separating her for a few days.

She is splash, she just has spangling as well. If all are peacombs then none should be CCL.