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I’m beginning to see that these birds rival my Cochins in broodiness. 3 more have gone broody, potentially even 4… meaning I only have 2 hens of the 8 I have who haven’t shown any broody-like behavior.

The wheaten hen’s eggs hatched. Another hen went broody a week before the clutch hatched, and they wound up co-brooding. 5 chicks hatched, and they seem like insanely protective mothers. The original broody hen accepted the new one pretty quickly as well.

This is my favorite part about the wheatens lol. Chicks are 6 weeks old, and already showing sexually dimorphic color- I’m like 90% sure this is a male-female pair. The boys start getting their dark blue/black feathers super quick, I’ve been thinking it to be a male-dominated clutch for a week...

Super interesting! I agree it probably stems from the selective practices of the original breeder. Some people prefer more steady laying, some prefer to let hens brood. I personally appreciate it when a hen goes broody, given it saves me incubator space. It’s not a trait I’ll be actively looking...

That’s normal. I often see that most of the chicks hatched are solid white/pale yellow. It’s only a minority that have the stripes at hatch.

Are people in the groups difficult? I truthfully haven’t interacted with the groups too avidly, but I know some FB groups have quite the negative reputation. Oh boy, do I relate to that second statement. Not a week goes by where I don’t judge myself for the breeds and varieties I’ve happened to...

That’s unfortunate. The middle one looks like he could be splash wheaten, but the others for for sure mixed color. I can imagine that was very disappointing.

Thank you! The broodiness of each breed is something I’ve very slowly been learning. Unless it’s a breed renown for being broody, I’ve been somewhat defaulting to assuming I wouldn’t get broody hens. I’ve been bamboozled by surprise broody hens in breeds where you don’t hear about broodiness...

Just got my first broody pullet 😐. I may have overlooked the brooding tendencies of ameraucana bantams- as in I had no clue they went broody and never thought to even look it up. Whoops.

My Blue Wheaten cockerel. Excuse the face. He got plucked by a pullet who has now been removed from the flock.

None look silver wheaten to me either. The back left is the lightest and washed out, but she’d have to be specifically test bred to know for sure. I know wheatens, especially largefowl from the photos I’ve seen, can just naturally get super light. She could be silver wheaten though, but doesn’t...

basically what @kurby22 said. Isabel is wheaten with the lavender gene, so you need to keep breeding until you get wheaten based birds who present the lavender gene. Breeding the f1 birds together, who are phenotypically black, and keeping every wheaten and Isabel chick that hatches is what I’d...

No. It makes phenotypically black ameraucanas, probably with leakage, that carry the wheaten base and lavender gene. Wheaten is recessive to black, and lavender is recessive to non-lavender, so you should never get an Isabel out of that cross. Breed the f1s together and you should get a very...

3rd ameraucana fairy egg, coming in hot. It’s starting to feel regular to see extra tiny eggs when I’m collecting from them. They started laying December 24th, and I got the first fairy egg early January, so i guess this is just prolonged period of “figuring it out” with their egg laying? Never...

When I was researching egg shipping a few months back, I recall seeing a requirement for either NPIP or a veterinary certificate to ship eggs out or into the state. Its definitely required to get eggs shipped into Florida, so I might’ve assumed it was required to ship them out. Im a bit unsure...

I have wheatens and blue wheatens, but I only breed bantams, and haven’t gotten NPIP certified just yet, so I cannot sell birds outside of FL at the moment. I second Facebook and the ameraucana alliance site though. There’s a wheaten variety ameraucana group on FB. Largefowl and bantam breeders...

I as well. My ameraucanas are the only birds to produce fairy eggs thus far, and they’ve made 2. I’ve been saving them since they’re so cute.

Tiniest egg ive ever seen from my bantam ameraucanas. Mini egg beside normal egg. They even messed the hue up on it. It’s pale green, but looks tan beside their normal blues.

Potentially heterozygous or with some gene causing those hackle markings. They’re the part that stands out as weird to me. The body shade is possible on a wheaten, from my experience, but I’ve never seen a hen with such strong hackle leakage.

Exciting! The silver lavender especially to me- the males of that color are such a beautiful, light shade. Gray shades and silver work really well together. The hens are stunning as well. They’re lovely! I’d say Sammy is a Blue wheaten, since her tail is blue. Tail & wing color is really the...