What's wrong with their feathers?

[Thespoiledchicken]

I've been chatting a bit with someone interested in making Fluffy Lavenders, Fluffy Wheatens, Fluffy Blue Wheatens, and Fluffy Lavender Wheatens. Feel free to read and jump in.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/626331/ameracauna-genetics-question-wheaton-blue-wheaton

Sweet. Going to put the coffee pot on now

Thanks!

 

[chick-among-us]

Funny several people are working on LAV Fluffy's! We are also (and maybe Blue)! ...And plan to follow a plan more like Aquaeyes puts out there...since it immediately made sense to us! Just thought we would put it out there...waiting on AFD eggs to hatch and also just obtained 9 split to Lav chicks with 11 Lav babies...so we are ready if ANY fluffies hatch if not WE even have a plan B!!

Wishing everyone great hatches and success in your projects...I've no doubt that it will take years! I am thrilled.

 

[ladyfaeden]

I'm going to leave my eggs in a a day or two more but am thinking all I'm going to get out of this hatch is the blue and a splash that hatched this morning. I am thinking I better hatch another dozen eggs as some insurance. If anyone reads the other thread and wants to team up, I would love that. Does anyone want to do an egg trade or sell me some eggs? I need eggs capable of producing a blue silkied. My Cream Legbars and Swedish Flower hens should be laying in a few months. I may have a producing trio of very nice Lavender Ameracauna in a few days. I'd perfer to trade as my hubby is letting me take over another outbuilding for chickens and I need to budget the renovation.

Erica

 

[billiejo21]

We have a total of 4 splash and 3 blue that have hatched. I am leaving everything else in since you just never know...but I am thinking this will be all from this hatch...which is good, I think! I have 12 ameraucans in the bator on day 7, candled today, and all but 1 is looking FABULOUS!! Excited beyond belief for this project and glad to get started!! Wondering if anyone who's hatched these guys out can help me figure out who's silkied?? Do I need to wait til feathers start developing more?? I took a look at the wing feathers, but they all seemed to look the same??
Also, I had one blue chick hatch out this afternoon with only one eye...I know that the gentic diversity in these birds is lacking a bit...but just wondered if anyone has had this happen???? Right now we put him/her in with everyone else....as long as they fair fine and seem to be growing, we'll keep him/her and add to our barnyard mix laying flock that we do not use for breeding. If it's a roo, we can always send him to freezer camp later down the road!! I know some don't agree...but I feel like we can find a use for almost any bird!! I didn't get good pics today, but I'll try again tomorrow..they are so darn cute!!!!

 

[billiejo21]

I just checkout the auction listings on here and there are 3 different wheaten/blue wheaten buy it now listings...check em out! Not sure exactly what you are looking for, but there is hope!!

Well, it does not look good for me doing Wheatens. Peachicks auction has gone over my limit

Can't justify over $100.00 on eggs that may or may not hatch.

I may have to go buy a couple Cream Legbars to feel better

Anyway, I LOVE the Lavenders so sticking with the original plan.


Trish

 

[chick-among-us]

I'm sorry to question like this,but are you SURE? We,once thought one of ours had only one eye,since the lids can be really hard to see and sometimes it seems they don't know that they have two of them or something....it just opened it later...if it is completely missing or something sorry I asked...just trying to help.

We have a total of 4 splash and 3 blue that have hatched. I am leaving everything else in since you just never know...but I am thinking this will be all from this hatch...which is good, I think! I have 12 ameraucans in the bator on day 7, candled today, and all but 1 is looking FABULOUS!! Excited beyond belief for this project and glad to get started!! Wondering if anyone who's hatched these guys out can help me figure out who's silkied?? Do I need to wait til feathers start developing more?? I took a look at the wing feathers, but they all seemed to look the same??
Also, I had one blue chick hatch out this afternoon with only one eye...I know that the gentic diversity in these birds is lacking a bit...but just wondered if anyone has had this happen???? Right now we put him/her in with everyone else....as long as they fair fine and seem to be growing, we'll keep him/her and add to our barnyard mix laying flock that we do not use for breeding. If it's a roo, we can always send him to freezer camp later down the road!! I know some don't agree...but I feel like we can find a use for almost any bird!! I didn't get good pics today, but I'll try again tomorrow..they are so darn cute!!!!

 

[NicoleRM]

Bad news from me today. I'm beyond frustrated right now. I lost the silkied rooster I got from alicefelldown. No idea why, just found him dead.

New game plan is to put my F1 roosters back in and keep and set every egg I get through the end of the month and hope and pray for a good hatch of silkied birds so I can choose one to replace him. I have four growing out now.

For anyone interested in joining the project or trading, I will probably have more F1 x F1 eggs available in March.

 

[ChooksChick]

Bad news from me today. I'm beyond frustrated right now. I lost the silkied rooster I got from alicefelldown. No idea why, just found him dead.

New game plan is to put my F1 roosters back in and keep and set every egg I get through the end of the month and hope and pray for a good hatch of silkied birds so I can choose one to replace him. I have four now growing out now.

For anyone interested in joining the project or trading, I will probably have more F1 x F1 eggs available in March.

I'm so sorry! I've lost so many of these birds without warning I TOTALLY feel for you and understand. I have lost 9 in this manner. It's excruciating.

At this point I have:

1 Split Splash Cockerel, out of Julie's first outcross to Black stock, 2nd Gen
1 Silkied Splash Cock, out of Julie's Mother/Son pairing
1 Split Blue Hen, out of Julie's first outcross to Black stock
2 Split Blue AFD Pullets
2 Silkied Blue AFD Pullets

8 Split to Bantam Wheaten Ameraucana Chicks, Splash Silkied is likely sire.

This is going to be a looooong lasting project.

 

[galanie]

If I recall correctly, that was an issue with these birds, survivability. And Alicefelldown did suggest breeding toward more diversity and survivability before color. But of course one could breed toward both goals at the same time.

 

[NicoleRM]

If I recall correctly, that was an issue with these birds, survivability. And Alicefelldown did suggest breeding toward more diversity and survivability before color. But of course one could breed toward both goals at the same time.

Yes, unfortunately, he is not the first I've lost. I think he was one of the few original birds from Jubaby's eggs, so I knew it was a possibility with the stress of shipping and a new environment, I was just really REALLY hoping against it. I just wish there was something I could have done.