YAY!!! Found pure Ameraucanas in Indiana!!!

[schellie69]

so happy for you use the upload button for pictures.

 

[IndigoJaguar]

Well....not a very good pict but...anyway...this baby is my favorite since she is blue.

 

[IndigoJaguar]

 

[Illia]

I really really would hate to break it to you, but your blue appears to be an Easter Egger or a cross of colors. Blues are a solid gray as a chick, without the black duckwing stripe on their heads or yellow showing up in the wings. Cute chicks though!

 

[klf73]

does appear to be barred which would defininely make it not an ameraucana

 

[IndigoJaguar]

Welllll.....I guess I will wait and see. I saw the parents so I am confident they are real ameraucanas but they may not be the colors I think. The only parents she had were blue and black. She didn't have any other chickens except for some new cochins and some bantams. The other five I got are solid black....would that be ok?

 

[IndigoJaguar]

Where is a link saying what defines a pure ameraucana chick and adult? I need to read up on this, but can't find.

 

[Cat's Coop]

[http://www.ameraucana.org/standard.html]

If the bloodlines came from Paul Smith stock then you have some great show quailty pure Ameraucanas. I got 16 blues, 4 black and 4 wheatens from him last year. They are amazing!

 

[IndigoJaguar]

Thank you.

That definition helps some, but where do you all get the idea that the chicks can't have a stripe on their head....I need a page with that info. I don't mean to sound rude but I want documented information, not someone's opinion on what a pure am. is. I need links and pages.
If their parents APPEAR to be perfect and true to form, is there a possiblilty that the chicks will not be? I don't know anything about genetics. I saw perfect black and blue parents where I went. I am not saying that that means my babies will be perfect, but are there hidden imperfections in a parent bird that causes them to throw imperfect chicks?
I say all this to learn. I am not offended, nor do I care if my babies aren't perfect

I am not going to show or breed at this point. That's when it is important. I hope someone can educate me on this tho....point out some links or tell me where you learned your info from. I hope to learn a lot about genetics so when I breed I am getting true form.

 

[Illia]

And, no one is meaning to offend in turn, I'm just saying, a stripe on the head as well as yellow showing up in the actual feathers means there's duckwing or even possibly partridge in the birds' genetics. A true solid blue is just E/E extended, making it solid blue with some white or yellow underside as a chick.

As long as you love them, that's what matters. I just like to let people know of facts.