What happened? Lavender ameracaunas...

[Slothinc]

Here's a picture of the two dark chicks for gender ID
I suddenly feel horribly inadequate when it comes to chicken identification View attachment 4077694

I don’t know if wing sexing is accurate in ameraucana but a looking at that picture, the L chick has the female wing look and the R chick has more of the male wing look.

 

[Slothinc]

I don’t know if wing sexing is accurate in ameraucana but a looking at that picture, the L chick has the female wing look and the R chick has more of the male wing look.

For what it’s worth - I did the wing sexing on 3 of my recent lavender babies that were half ameraucana bantam and half silkie. They ended up being accurate. I don’t know if it was just dumb luck or what because everyone on here likes to say that wing sexing only works on a very specific few breeds of chicken. However from now on I plan to do it on all my chicks and make note of what they look like and see if it ends up being accurate or not. Even 75% accuracy would be better than having a 50/50 chance

Also just a quick note about why your hens are Easter eggers, I know that purebred ameraucana only come in a select few colors, and any variation in colors has been the result of crossing in other birds, thus why they are called Easter eggers. Easter eggers are a mix that generally looks similar to ameraucana in shape but often has different coloring, and they don’t always carry 2 blue egg genes like ameraucana, so they can end up having different egg colors, though the majority of them lay blue or light green.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I think my breeder has now a pb male Ameraucana and MIGHT be NPIP.

 

[nuthatched]

Oh my goodness so much to learn!
Thank you all.
How do we differentiate between ameracauna and Easter egger

You can't, if they both lay blue.

Here's a picture of the two dark chicks for gender ID
I suddenly feel horribly inadequate when it comes to chicken identification View attachment 4077694

Unfortunately, this doesn't work.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

You can't, if they both lay blue.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work.

I'd like to know the difference between blue and lavender. Anybody got pics?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

And please forgive me if I'm hijacking. If I am please tell me and I will start a new thread.

 

[Slothinc]

I'd like to know the difference between blue and lavender. Anybody got pics?

If you look at the photo of the breeders hen above, it is a slightly darker gray color (though blues can have a huge variation in color, some look black and some look quite close to lavender.) But you can see that the feathers almost look “laced”. That is a blue bird trait. For lavenders, you will see very faint black stripes on the feathers - almost like very faint barring.

Also blue birds I believe will always have a darker color feather shaft when the feather is viewed from the top, while lavenders will have white when viewed from the top. My lavenders have dark when viewed from the bottom of the feather so don’t base off the bottom.

If there is a blue that looks black, one indicator that it could be blue is the feather sheen. Pure black birds will often have a green or purple sheen to their feathers, while blues will look more “flat” and also the blues may lean more towards a brownish look. I have a NN frizzle silkie that I thought was black but now that she is older, and doesn’t have any sheen, and looks a little more brown, I suspect that she is blue. I will have to test breed her to find out.

I’ll post some pics of my lavender bantam Ameraucana to see the ticking on her feathers, my NN who might be blue, and a black bird with sheen (not the best pic sorry, but I promise she has a very prominent green sheen)

 

[ManOverBoard]

And please forgive me if I'm hijacking. If I am please tell me and I will start a new thread.

No worries so happy for all this info being swapped! Learning, learning!

 

[ManOverBoard]

Just fed the girls and these are apparently our Easter eggers most lay light mint green eggs. One lays safe green another light blue.
Sorry for the grey day pictures the coop and run are due for a good spring clean, but it's hard while the girls are on lockdown for bird flu safety

 

[ManOverBoard]

Just fed the girls and these are apparently our Easter eggers most lay light mint green eggs. One lays safe green another light blue.
Sorry for the grey day pictures the coop and run are due for a good spring clean, but it's hard while the girls are on lockdown for bird flu safety View attachment 4077976View attachment 4077980

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Sage* green