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Laced Blue Ameraucana
Christie Rhae:
I discovered something today. I thought I would examine my splash andalusians to see if I could see any evidence of lacing. I found that one of my splash cockerels showed more evidence of lacing than the other. Here are some close ups. (below) The thing about these splash birds is that they are very likely carrying all the pattern genes so I am interested to see that there is some lacing showing. This may be useful info in future breedings.
Here is a close up of one of my blue andalusian cockerels. They have not had their first molt yet so am excited to see how the 4 month old feathers look.
Christie Rhae:
Omg we have advice from the Andalusian master himself..Tom Roebuck!
He made a comment on BYC... Here it is
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Christie,
I read back through a couple of your posts to where you stated what you had on hand and that you had separated ckls and pullets.
My recommendation as far as breeding matchups. I'd try the following breedings.
Blue A ckl x Black Am pullets
Splash A ckl x Black Am pullets
Black Am Ckl x Blue A pullets
I am betting that your best lacing on the f1's will come from either the Blue A Ckl x Black Am pullets or the Splash A ckl x Black Am pullets. The males usually drive the color/pattern tendancies. I am also betting that you'll see better comb results in the matings with Ameraucana pullets vs. Ameraucana ckls. I wouldn't be afraid of using the splash ckls either like you stated. You'll get the greatest Blue yield from this breeding and they are carrying the pattern genetics. Soundest Blue color will probably come from the Blue A x Black Am breeding.
Looking forward to seeing how the f1's turn out.
Tom"
I am printing this out and will use this advice for my first pairings.
OldChurchEggery:
Hi Christie,
I heard from Tom this morning about our VPBA show and told him you'd been gushing on here about the birds you hatched from his stock. Maybe next year you can fly in for our show and we can all meet! ;) Somehow I think a Hawaii-Virginia flight would be rough. ::)
Good luck once again!
From: Tom Roebuck [mailto:goldenfeatherfarm@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 9:41 AM
To: Lawler, Erica M
Subject: Re: 2012 VPBA Show Catalog
Erica,
Clean up help would be awesome. That picture is awesome.
It took two tries getting eggs to Hawaii. First bunch we shipped the way I ship eggs in the states normally. That didn't work. They probably were victims of rough handling and then may not have been in a temp controlled cabin on the plane. The second batch I shipped in a lives box, but had to go through Hawaii Dept of Ag to get a permit and then make sure they understood that they were only eggs and not really live chickens. Those went through great and she had a good hatch. I am hoping she has good success getting the lacing. Good breeding project!
Tom
Christie Rhae:
Lol! I am all geeked out!
I would love to attend a show one day. Ya never know!
Chicklover:
The lacing is looking great in the F1's and I am looking forward to breeding in the Spring. I have been told to breed the F1's back to the F1's to make sure to set the lacing genes. I know that this will cause the F2 to have more of the Andalusion genes but it will make the hatching a bit of challenge. When they hatch I will have to cull on comb first. Then keep the best comb's these I will breed back to the Ameraucana.
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