What's wrong with their feathers?

[Jubaby]

Just hatched out four more of these babies yesterday. I'll post a picture soon.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Congrats! Can't wait to see the pics!

 

[averytds]

We're putting the new incubator together this week and yet I'm still tempted to get one like your's. No I'm fine, no addiction here....

Congrats on the new fuzzy butts!

 

[pips&peeps]

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The above was taken from Kathy's thread. I want to comment about here, since this is the thread with the discussion about what caused the "silkie" type feathering.......

Those are definately green legs, which indicates yellow skin on this chick. This to me indicates the birds are not pure. Which would lead me to believe somewhere, back when, the birds were mixed. At this point I would say that there is no point in doing the test breeding with the silkie.

 

[KellyHM]

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The above was taken from Kathy's thread. I want to comment about here, since this is the thread with the discussion about what caused the "silkie" type feathering.......

Those are definately green legs, which indicates yellow skin on this chick. This to me indicates the birds are not pure. Which would lead me to believe somewhere, back when, the birds were mixed. At this point I would say that there is no point in doing the test breeding with the silkie.

So, I'm not sure I get why this makes them have a mix somewhere in the background? Don't Ameraucanas have green or slate legs? Or did I make that up?

 

[kathyinmo]

I do not know what color is standard for the Ameraucana. What I do know is that the color on these birds' legs changes weekly. Look at the pictures on my thread and you can see that.

I will get recent pictures tomorrow, after I purchase some new batteries.

 

[cottagegarden]

Silkiaucana chick question- are the bottoms of the feet yellow or white? That will answer the leg color question.
If these were my Ameraucana chicks I was looking over I would think that something of the original gets lost in the sibling cross.
Slate legs,peacombs,orangish eyes, red ear lobes, muffs..small beards

Left is f2 chicks right?(comb becomes modified pea, legs on middle hen seem to,by my moniter have a greenish cast)

but by the time we get to this chick it has lost it's beard, possibly the muffs

So as you outcross to the Ameraucanas, those of you breeding, it would make sense to look over the Standard for Ameraucanas
so you know what your selection process should be to make these have he desired traits. Or just call them EEs and
then they can look like anything. I love that name "Woolees" it just makes you smile, like hugging a cloud.
Good luck!!

 

[alicefelldown]

Week 2 of my single strange feather amera bird. No picture, but the soles of the feet are more pinkish than yellow or white. I'll try again tomorrow I suppose, as this chick does not photograph well.

The rest of the flock's 'birthday' pictures are here .

 

[kathyinmo]

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[cottagegarden]

I was simply trying to suggest something that would catch my eye for needing improvement if they were my chicks.
That hasnt been my experience with my birds. Even the crosses with my Marans have beards and muffs from day one.
If they are slow to feather to beards, most breeders should not use birds that have that trait unless there is no other option.
Heterozygous birds(birds that only carry one gene for beards and muffs) can produce birds without beards and muffs. You would have a one chance in four of producing a non bearded or muffed bird.

Beards and muffs is an incompletely dominant trait. Muffs and Beards are inherited on a single dominant gene basis. Two copies of Mb (one from each parent) give full muffs and beard. One copy of Mb will result in muffed birds, but the muffs and beard will be somewhat smaller. No copies of Mb, no muffs and beard (symbolized as small mb). The following are average long run results of the matings you might make.

MbMb X mbmb = 100% Mbmb (all with smaller muffs)

Mbmb X mbmb = 50% Mbmb, 50% mbmb (50% no muffs)

MbMb X Mbmb = 50% MbMb, 50% Mbmb

Mbmb X Mbmb = 25% MbMb, 50%Mbmb, and 25% mbmb

MbMb X MbMb = 100% MbMb

If you mate mbmb with mbmb, all the chicks will be clean faced, without muffs and beard.

You can see this splash Ameraucana is fuller around the face than the splash Cochin