Ameraucana breeding, colors?

[WolfLady]

Hi! I'm new to breeding chickens and my chicks aren't yet to that age, I got Blue Ameraucana and Silver Ameraucana.

I've been told Blue breed true about 50% and Silver 100%. Is it true?

In general, what potential outcome would be if I breed:
Blue x Blue
Silver x Blue
Silver x Silver

I'd like to eventually get Lavender too, and would wonder about:
Blue x Lavender
Silver x Lavender

Also, is it generally ok to breed different color together or frowned upon? I don't really plan to breed commercially, but would prefer to do it right nonetheless.

Thank you a lot for the opportunity to learn.

 

[The Moonshiner]

A lot of people especially serious breeder/show people frown on crossing colors.
Crossing colors of ameraucanas is really frowned on because many will say once you do all you'll get is Easter Eggers instead of ameraucana.
Crossing blue and lavender is another thing that is frowned on by most.
Silver Xs silver will produce 100% silvers.
Blue Xs Blue will produce 50% blue, 25% black and 25% splash. It is acceptable to breed any of those three colors together.
It also acceptable to breed lavender to black.
Silver to blue will produce 50% blue with leakage and 50% black with leakage. The pullets may not show much if any leakage but the cockerels surely will.
Silver to lavender will produce black with same leakage.
Lavender to blue will produce 50% blue and 50% black.
Anything you cross lavender to will carry one lavender gene so when the offspring are bred together the lavender color will start showing back up.
I love crossing colors to make something different but I don't just throw birds together and see what pops out. If you know the genes involved it can get interesting.
If you don't know the genes or understand how they work you'll pretty much just be producing a bunch of mixed color birds which will or won't be a big deal depending on your future plans for them.
Most would much rather buy or own pure color birds then a bunch of mixes.

 

[WolfLady]

Ths

A lot of people especially serious breeder/show people frown on crossing colors.
Crossing colors of ameraucanas is really frowned on because many will say once you do all you'll get is Easter Eggers instead of ameraucana.
Crossing blue and lavender is another thing that is frowned on by most.
Silver Xs silver will produce 100% silvers.
Blue Xs Blue will produce 50% blue, 25% black and 25% splash. It is acceptable to breed any of those three colors together.
It also acceptable to breed lavender to black.
Silver to blue will produce 50% blue with leakage and 50% black with leakage. The pullets may not show much if any leakage but the cockerels surely will.
Silver to lavender will produce black with same leakage.
Lavender to blue will produce 50% blue and 50% black.
Anything you cross lavender to will carry one lavender gene so when the offspring are bred together the lavender color will start showing back up.
I love crossing colors to make something different but I don't just throw birds together and see what pops out. If you know the genes involved it can get interesting.
If you don't know the genes or understand how they work you'll pretty much just be producing a bunch of mixed color birds which will or won't be a big deal depending on your future plans for them.
Most would much rather buy or own pure color birds then a bunch of mixes.

Thank you for the explanation, that's really clear and helpful. I'm used to dog breeding, but chickens is a new world and I definitely will study more on that topic before doing some. I don't want indeed to just randomly breed together. As for my plan, it's mostly for personal meat/eggs.

 

[Arok327]

I plan on breeding them too and I was curious about the colors also I was planing on starting with 3 I was looking to get a blue roo a blue pullet but should I add a splash pullet. Or should I get all 3 in blue? Tia.