The AMERAUCANA thread

[I Like Turkeys]

Man I can't wait till I get my Silver hatching eggs from GypsyHen. Then I can get my project going and I'll have my favorite color of Ameraucanas!

Projects are: silver lavender and blue golden duckwing. Nether are SOP but who cares they are the colors I love and I'll be breeding the body type to SOP.

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.

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I think Sunny is a splash wheaten, and Sammy (second picture) should be either wheaten, blue wheaten, or splash wheaten, but apparently her colouring is weird and more partridgey? I don’t know. But they are ameraucanas.
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They hatched in July. We live in Canada where the days are still pretty short, so they aren’t laying yet, but I expect they’ll start in the next month or two.

They’re lovely! I’d say Sammy is a Blue wheaten, since her tail is blue. Tail & wing color is really the best way to determine that- splashes having white tails, blues having blues, and wheatens having black tails.
she is dark, but still within the realm of possible for a blue wheaten. I have a few pullets who are fairly dark and reddish colored, and one who shows hackle markings like she does. The hackle markings aren’t ideal, but I’ve been told the exact shade of wheaten a hen isn’t doesn’t matter so much as the evenness of her pattern. As long as she started out solid yellow/white, at least.

 

[kurby22]

Man I can't wait till I get my Silver hatching eggs from GypsyHen. Then I can get my project going and I'll have my favorite color of Ameraucanas!

Projects are: silver lavender and blue golden duckwing. Nether are SOP but who cares they are the colors I love and I'll be breeding the body type to SOP.

Oooooo! I have those same eggs in my cart haha, I want them but I don't NEED them so I am just enjoying knowing that I COULD buy them if the sanity leaves me! You definitely have to post lots of pictures of them when they hatch!!

 

[NagemTX]

Oooooo! I have those same eggs in my cart haha, I want them but I don't NEED them so I am just enjoying knowing that I COULD buy them if the sanity leaves me! You definitely have to post lots of pictures of them when they hatch!!

I will! I'll be down sizing my flock a bit to accommodate them!.

 

[kurby22]

I will! I'll be down sizing my flock a bit to accommodate them!.

Awesome! I’m super jealous it’s taking all my willpower not to add them to the flock! Haha.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

she is dark, but still within the realm of possible for a blue wheaten. I have a few pullets who are fairly dark and reddish colored, and one who shows hackle markings like she does. The hackle markings aren’t ideal, but I’ve been told the exact shade of wheaten a hen isn’t doesn’t matter so much as the evenness of her pattern. As long as she started out solid yellow/white, at least.

Ah, I was the one that said she looked partridgey on another thread, so this is good to know. Pending possible chick down coloration changing your stance, would you say she's definitely E^Wh/E^Wh with some other genes modifying the coloration, or is she potentially heterozygous for one of the other e-locus genes that E^Wh is not fully dominant over?

 

[I Like Turkeys]

Ah, I was the one that said she looked partridgey on another thread, so this is good to know. Pending possible chick down coloration changing your stance, would you say she's definitely E^Wh/E^Wh with some other genes modifying the coloration, or is she potentially heterozygous for one of the other e-locus genes that E^Wh is not fully dominant over?

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.

 

[Certified Chicken Lover]

Hi everyone! Until now I thought I had four ameraucanas , I was suppose to! But after reading through this thread I'm not so sure after all. What are ya'll opinions of these girls???

 

[Certified Chicken Lover]

And here's a back image of my little Cheeky!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hi everyone! Until now I thought I had four Americaunas, I was suppose to! But after reading through this thread I'm not so sure after all. What are ya'll opinions of these girls???

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Those are Easter Eggers. Still lovely birds but not the same as Ameraucanas

 

[Certified Chicken Lover]

Okay for future reference how do you tell an americana from an easter egger? Because this is from Murray hatchery, and it looks pretty similar to one of my girls:

Is this just not an Ameraucana or is there some important differences I am missing?