The Big Blue Roo (and other BBS ameraucana pics)

[ranchhand]

What beautiful birds!

I just hatched some BBS Ameraucanas last week, this is very inspiring. Is there any way to sex them at 5 days?

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Speckledhen- that sheen gets me everytime! It's just striking and unexpected.

Ranchhand- I don't think you can sex them at 5 days, but by 5 weeks you probably can. Now that I know what to look for on the comb, I'm getting better at it. The boys have three parallel ridges. The girls don't. Plus all of my guys have gotten reddish, while the girls stay blackish.

This is a younger picture of one of the guys if that helps.

 

[SilverStar]

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What a pretty boy you have there!!!!

 

[pips&peeps]

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Your blue bird pictured has gold leakage also. Check the picture, there are tiny little gold feathers on top of his head.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Yeah, it looked like that in the pictures and it scared me when I first saw them, so I ran out to study him some more. He actually doesn't have gold on his head. It was the angle of the sun and the camera. Those feathers are really shiny (kind of like the irridescence on the black) and the sun was bright that day. I need to get more pictures on a cloudy day. I'll try to get a good close up on his head for you. That color shift isn't there in the late afternoons and evenings though.

 

[pips&peeps]

Well, thats good news!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Of course, now I'm freaked out and I'm going to have to go sit in the chicken coop again so I can stare at the rooster. Curse that dratted gold leakage gene!!!

Of the four I hatched from your eggs, Pips&Peeps, three are looking girly and one is boyish. The boy actually got pecked pretty thoroughly on the the head and is living in the house until he heals up. Hopefully he will heal up (they got him down to the bone). I am firmly attached to the little guy now that he sits in my lap and goes to sleep while I doctor him. The baby roo is black and the girls are dark blue, lighter blue and black. I can't wait to see what they look like grown!

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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gasp……no *shakes head* No……..NOOOOO
Full blown tantrum takes her to the floor, feet flail, hands pound on floor, hoarse mutterings of no, no.


Picks self up off the floor, dusts herself off.

Hmmm, really? So I am wondering have you found this to hold in EEs or in crosses. Say an Orp X EE?

 

[M To The Maxx]

They look great!!!!

 

[ranchhand]

I have this feeling that in 4 weeks I am going to be starting a thread called "What Am I?".

Thank you, City Girl!