this is my splash ameruacana is it a boy?

[donrae]

I sure want to say pullet, but that comb looks to have three good rows, usually a pretty good male indicator.

 

[steph0601]

Thanks yall, I guess or now it is a wait and see kind of game, I wake up early just to see if I can hear her crow, so far out of 10 straight run that I picked through hoping for girls we only have one roo, with maybe this one also. Still only hear the one crowing. I guess the next few weeks will tell.

 

[goldfinches]

He or she is roughly 15weeks, could be a week or so older. This chicken is a pure ameraucana she has the blue gene from both parents causing her to be grey and white. This is my first one of this breed does anyone know when the girls combs start to turn red? It is a pale pink right now. I do have a boy , but he is the blue gene ameraucana(he is black with tented blue feathers) he is the same age and it is obvious he is a boy. (deep red comb and already is crowing)

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Why does it have green legs?

 

[WooingWyandotte]

Why does it have green legs?

Don't listen to what I say. Apparently I'm a misinformed sophomore that strives to do her best but is continually beaten down by people much more knowledgable and credible than her.

Have a great day!

 

[gander007]

she looks like a pullet

 

[goldfinches]

Because ameraucauna's have the blue egg gene, which causes green legs. Easter eggers and Araucana's do also have the blue egg gene.

However I know of some chicken breeds with slate legs (look like a knock-off green or blue tint) that DO NOT have the blue egg gene. So know the breed your looking at. Have a great day!

Does the green legs not make it an Easter Egger? Don't Blue Ameraucana have dark slate legs? Wouldn't that mean this one should also have dark slate? Or do the splash have green for some reason?

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Because ameraucauna's have the blue egg gene, which causes green legs. Easter eggers and Araucana's do also have the blue egg gene.

However I know of some chicken breeds with slate legs (look like a knock-off green or blue tint) that DO NOT have the blue egg gene. So know the breed your looking at. Have a great day!

@WooingWyandotte This isn't true at all. Ameraucanas have slate legs and the bottoms of their feet are white. Black Ameraucanas can have black legs. Period. That's the breed standard. However, some lines of Ameraucana are hatched with lighter legs that darken over time, usually by six weeks.

The blue egg gene does not cause willow legs. Instead it is the mixing of the genes that make Ameraucana legs slate colored with the yellow skin of whatever is mixed in the Easter Egger that causes willow legs.

Also, brief genetics lesson: The blue egg gene causes blue eggs. Period. It can't cause pea combs, or beards, or willow legs. There are other genes that do those things. What does happen is that the blue egg gene is on the same chromosome very near the gene(s) that cause pea combs. That means that during meiosis when the cell splits the blue egg gene and the pea comb gene move together most of the time. The genes for beards/muffs are also very close to the blue egg gene as well. That's why you most often get pea combs in Easter Eggers and why you should always look for a pea comb when you're choosing Easter Eggers. If a breeder used an Easter Egger crossed with another breed or another Easter Egger to make their crosses, then some of the offspring might not lay blue or green eggs. The birds with the pea combs are most likely to have inherited the blue egg gene.

 

[steph0601]

Maybe I wasn't so clear sorry.I am not mentioning blue as in The color of the eggs I am talking about a blue ameraucana recognize by poultry breeds. When the chick acquires the gene from both parents it becomes a white/grey chick who has the blue gene and can be used to produce blue chicks in the future because it carries the blue feather gene. What is cool is you can mix a slash with a black ameraucana and still get a pure blue ameraucana. Her feet have a slatish color to them, kinda of the green hue, with white on the bottoms. I got this chick from a farmer who is very selective with his breeding. He is recognised and has won several awards for his ameraucana line. Although splash is not recognize by poultry as a true ameraucana it can still be used in breeding to get a blue ameraucana chick. I will have to post pictures of my other 2. I have a black ameraucana pullet and a blue ameraucana roo. Here is a quote I found on the breed..

"The nice thing about raising the black and blue varieties is that you can run the birds together and still get purebred Black Ameraucana and purebred Blue Ameraucana. The blue color gene, when inherited, simply reduces the amount of black pigment produced in the feather follicle causing black to look gray. When a chick inherits two copies of the blue gene, the pigment produced is reduced so much, the bird looks almost white with random splashes of gray/blue and black.  This variety is called "Splash."

Think of the blue color gene as a dilution gene. It dilutes out the black color. Gray is a dilute black."

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Maybe I wasn't so clear sorry.I am not mentioning blue as in The color of the eggs I am talking about a blue ameraucana recognize by poultry breeds. When the chick acquires the gene from both parents it becomes a white/grey chick who has the blue gene and can be used to produce blue chicks in the future because it carries the blue feather gene. What is cool is you can mix a slash with a black ameraucana and still get a pure blue ameraucana. Her feet have a slatish color to them, kinda of the green hue, with white on the bottoms. I got this chick from a farmer who is very selective with his breeding. He is recognised and has won several awards for his ameraucana line. Although splash is not recognize by poultry as a true ameraucana it can still be used in breeding to get a blue ameraucana chick. I will have to post pictures of my other 2. I have a black ameraucana pullet and a blue ameraucana roo. Here is a quote I found on the breed..

"The nice thing about raising the black and blue varieties is that you can run the birds together and still get purebred Black Ameraucana and purebred Blue Ameraucana. The blue color gene, when inherited, simply reduces the amount of black pigment produced in the feather follicle causing black to look gray. When a chick inherits two copies of the blue gene, the pigment produced is reduced so much, the bird looks almost white with random splashes of gray/blue and black. This variety is called "Splash."

Think of the blue color gene as a dilution gene. It dilutes out the black color. Gray is a dilute black."

I don't think anyone was unclear as to the splash coloration.

What messed people up was the leg color, which is awfully light for an Ameraucana. Then someone gave misinformation about Ameraucanas having willow legs caused by the blue egg gene, and the discussion went from there.

By the way, I think this bird is almost definitely a cockerel. And if the legs stay that willowish color and don't darken to slate, don't breed from him.

 

[MommaHen77]

Pullet for now beautiful bird