Wheaten vs Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas

[BLaBauve]

Does anyone have any pictures to compare wheaten to blue wheaten in ameraucana hens?

Thanks!

 

[Illia]

The Ameraucana Breeders Club site shows the difference in their "scrapbook" of photos - The Wheaten hen should be of wheaten color but with black primary feathers and tail feathers, the Blue Wheaten should be of a lighter, creamier type Wheaten color but with blue primaries and secondaries.

I wish my W/BW Ameraucanas were old enough to show you, but I do have W/BW Marans pullets to show the difference.

 

[BLaBauve]

Awesome, I will look there. Do you have pictures of your marans?

 

[Illia]

They're young so it might take a trained eye, but here's an attempt to show it. . .

Blue Wheaten - creamy, and if you check em, they have blue primaries and tail feathers

Wheaten - often they have darker "wheaten" feathering, and the primaries and tail feathers are black.

 

[BLaBauve]

Great, I can see the difference. Thanks so much! I think I prefer the blue.

 

[Illia]

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Me too.

With my current Marans girls and their plumage so far I'm not liking the brown flecking in the chests and too dark of "lacing" in the backs, but who knows. . . They're pullets anyway. But looking beyond SOP - The blues still are prettier, at least in Marans.