What happened? Lavender ameracaunas...

[paintedChix]

I get a lot concerned when I'm talking to breeders locally that say they combine their Lavender & BBS pens... I have passed on some chicks, as I don't want the lines "muddled". Right now, I've just got my 1st BBS Ameraucana chicks since 2020.

I found a breeder of Lavender, also "local" (2 hours one way) & it appears they've managed to "clean up" the shredder gene. Their breeding stock is beautiful & chicks have both muffs & beards @ hatch. I want some... but.

My 2nd order from Deer Run Farm (MD) should be at PO soon. Ordered 10. I have 9 from March shipment.



I'm still looking around. May be able to get some other lines this year, may wait till next year...

Here are chart pics for how Lavender works. The "split" birds (1 Lavender gene, 1 black gene), will all look black. You can not tell the splits from straight gene blacks.



& how BBS works.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Wow!! Both are absolutely GORGEOUS!

Thank you!

 

[ManOverBoard]

I get a lot concerned when I'm talking to breeders locally that say they combine their Lavender & BBS pens... I have passed on some chicks, as I don't want the lines "muddled". Right now, I've just got my 1st BBS Ameraucana chicks since 2020.

I found a breeder of Lavender, also "local" (2 hours one way) & it appears they've managed to "clean up" the shredder gene. Their breeding stock is beautiful & chicks have both muffs & beards @ hatch. I want some... but.

My 2nd order from Deer Run Farm (MD) should be at PO soon. Ordered 10. I have 9 from March shipment.

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I'm still looking around. May be able to get some other lines this year, may wait till next year...

Here are chart pics for how Lavender works. The "split" birds (1 Lavender gene, 1 black gene), will all look black. You can not tell the splits from straight gene blacks.

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& how BBS works.

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Wow great chart!

 

[ManOverBoard]

So far this is what our only two ameracauna chicks are looking like.... About 4 weeks old.
They're insanely friendly and seek out interaction with us. Very level headed so far too.

 

[ChiChiLady]

I get a lot concerned when I'm talking to breeders locally that say they combine their Lavender & BBS pens... I have passed on some chicks, as I don't want the lines "muddled". Right now, I've just got my 1st BBS Ameraucana chicks since 2020.

I found a breeder of Lavender, also "local" (2 hours one way) & it appears they've managed to "clean up" the shredder gene. Their breeding stock is beautiful & chicks have both muffs & beards @ hatch. I want some... but.

My 2nd order from Deer Run Farm (MD) should be at PO soon. Ordered 10. I have 9 from March shipment.

View attachment 4100373

I'm still looking around. May be able to get some other lines this year, may wait till next year...

Here are chart pics for how Lavender works. The "split" birds (1 Lavender gene, 1 black gene), will all look black. You can not tell the splits from straight gene blacks.

View attachment 4100376

& how BBS works.

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Hi, how did your batch of birds do from deer run farm? I received a batch last week and so far I have four dead which I am surprised it is the third time I have ordered from that farm over the past 10 years and I have never had sick birds from them just wanting to check in with some other folks who have ordered from them this year and see if their birds also got sick

 

[Vintagegurl72]

So I've always wanted a lavender variety of chicken.
We recently ordered a batch of lavender ameracauna eggs from eBay and hatched them out. ( Just finished this morning)

We had some shipping issues so the seller included some freebie eggs in the batch to us. We got 6 supposedly lavender ameracauna eggs and 6 Easter egger eggs.
From what I can see in the pictures of the sellers set up and gather from her notes, shes got lavender ameracauna hens and some black and tan Easter egger hens sharing a coop/run both with the same lavender ameracauna rooster.

Out if the 12 eggs. Only 3 of the lavender ameracauna eggs hatched. One of which is actually lavender colored and the poor sweet thing has wry neck.
The other two supposed lavender chicks are almost black. They have some grey hiding under heavy black features. Black feet, beaks, eyes, gray hiding near flanks and yellow on their bellies.
Any idea what's going on here?


The other 6 chicks that hatched
Are Easter egger crossed babies as they have chipmunk like patterns of chestnut and gray and black. One exhibiting a higher percentage of that gray ( lavender) color I was looking for.

All the chicks are so immensely sweet and personable. Super easy to handle and even taking turns cuddling the wry chick separate from the rest.
The chicks also huge.
We happen to have just hatched out quail a few days prior, so relatively of course they seem bigger, but even compared to our maran chicks and Australorp chicks and other ameracauna chicks in the past these chicks are huge fluff balls
A couple of which were so cramped in there eggs. When they came out they looked like big awkward pigeon babies that then fluffed up to wooly bear caterpillars. It's the fluffiest pile of chicks I've ever seen.


Our poor wry guy is so much smaller than the others despite being cramped in his shell with his foot over his head. We're treating him with vitamins, massages, and lots of love. Not sure he'll make the night. His neck seems to be doing much better this afternoon,but we've traded out neck strength for legs. He was standing and stretching his legs early in the day working on walking well, but now he just lays down.

We had a tough hatch out between our shipped quail and shipped chicken eggs. We were hoping for a lavender rooster so we could once again supply our own fertile eggs. Not sure we'll do shipped eggs again.

Was about to leave a review for the ebay seller, but not sure what to make of these dark supposed lavender ameracaunas.
Any input? Is this like some recessed gene? View attachment 4077451
Here's an above of everyone
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supposed lavender ameracauna number 1 and 2
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An Easter egger crossed baby

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And lastly our poor wry guy...
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He looks a little yellow here but much less so when not on a yellow towel.

I just started out hatching the lavender Ameracaunas. I can post a picture when they hatch. I can ship eggs to you. I am going to purchase more if these do good. I am in alabama

 

[ManOverBoard]

I just started out hatching the lavender Ameracaunas. I can post a picture when they hatch. I can ship eggs to you. I am going to purchase more if these do good. I am in alabama

I would love to see a picture after hatching and see how they turn out. We're up in new England, but if you find you end up with a strong batch of breeding birds, perhaps we'd take you up on that! Right now we're trying to see what comes of the young-ins we got from this last batch. A very confusing batch of chicks. We usually do new babies every year or every other , Thank you, I hope your hatch goes great!