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And the quality will be worth the wait

Three weeks is a classic spaz phase...it will pass, give them some time.

Recessive white. Both parents carried it hidden. You said it turned ALMOST pure white. What color was the other "almost" part. White ameraucana are a recognized variety and can be shown, fyi.

Is it possible that the eggs you collected for this hatch came from a hen that wasn't laying during the previous collection? One that just came out of molt or got over being broody, for instance? It is possible that the genes line up just right (or wrong) when that one hen and the rooster come...

Looks like a lav to me. Your black must be split for lav. All your chicks from the lav hen should be 50/50 then (50% lav/ 50% splits), but watch for clean faces. Can't tell if that chick is clean faced or just wet. If they don't have muffs at hatch; they won't get them later....you can...

Ahhhhhhh......now I see!!!

Hmmmmmmmm what could she be hiding under there????

After the power lines down for hours fiasco, I ended up with a decent hatch. They were a little late, and the hatching took longer than normal, but they DID hatch! Unbelieveable.

It got down to 82 and was below temp for quite a while....my husband had to go retrieve our generator that we loaned to someone LAST SUMMER in the middle of a thunderstorm and downpour and got it going again, but I'm not holding out much hope....grrrrrr He is looking at a "universal power...

What happens when 42 lavender ameraucana eggs 4 days from hatching sit in an incubator for 4 hours without power because some dummy ran into a pole? Oh wait--they all DIE. Silly me

Autosomal red maybe (being responsible for the violet)? Some would argue a feed issue (too much corn)--I would argue a genetic reason if she's being fed the same thing as the green turkeys and obviously they aren't purple.

Chick down comes into play because John believes that a good EE black (and therefore, a lav split) would be a solid black chick with lacquer shiny black shanks. He was talking theoretically, nothing is proven. Mike Gilbert said that we could have our birds genetically tested to see if they...

I'll try. The whole conversation started when I posted a picture of a juvenile in my growout pen with brown shafting in the feathers. I learned that the particular chick was probably based on ER genotype (birchen-based) and the conversation just kind of went from there. John said that he...

Yes that is the exact color I am seeing. But bred to your Smith birds all the offspring had bay eyes, correct?

Here is a bird that I managed to grow out that comes pretty close to what I envision a proper pea comb to look like in a male. I must have grown out 40 males to get this one. He has some issues with his tail, low wingset, light eyes; but I'm liking him pretty well. I'm going to switch males...

Christie I would think that bird would be very useful in a lav breeding program as the lavender gene seems to be diluting eye color as well as feather color in my pens. I have a pen of offspring which are both splits and lavs; full siblings. The splits have bay eyes while the lavs have too...

I still have fragments of the first eggs that I hatched out from both Harry and Jean. I keep them for reference to compare to future generations and see if I'm making headway. They haven't faded during storage, so far. Something you guys might be missing on intensity of the color is how it...