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Laced Blue Ameraucana
Christie Rhae:
--- Quote from: IamBlessed ---This is our blue Ameraucana hen (have about 6 or 7 chicks from her and our Black cock).
This is what her lacing looks like.
--- End quote ---
Awesome pics! Thanks for posting those.
The blue ameraucana pic is a good example of \"edging\". No pattern genes appear to be present.
The pic of the Andalusian seems to have the full set of pattern genes according to the chart from chickengenetics.edelras.nl/ that I posted on my first post.
Breed her!
IamBlessed:
We had ordered black Ameraucana and one of the chicks was light and ended up being a blue chick. That is how we got her.
We have been breeding the Andalusian to get chicks out of her and so far only have 1 blue pullet and 1 blue cockerel. We got 2 black and 2 splash also. Our breeding was blue to blue because that is what we have that is old enough to breed. Need to breed her again to the Andalusian cockerel but we may use the other hen we have for that. They both have lacing, Lacy is just better.
Looking forward to starting this project soon.
Christie Rhae:
Here are some tidbits of info I found today-
This one is from a marans club forum:
\"Extended black gene tends to produce black feather edging (not a lace) on blue birds-especially females.\"
This one is from Genetics of Chicken Colours
\"If you add other genes to an ER based chicken, such as Pattern gene, Columbian, Dark Brown and Melanotic you can get beautiful effects such as lacing, spangling etc. If you were to add the same genes to an E based bird, nothing would happen, they have no effect.\"
As John Blehm stated on his E-locus thread... we really gotta get the blues from ER/ER. Sigh....where to find ER/ER blues.....
Christie Rhae:
Oh Emm Gee...
I just got my American Standard of Perfection 2010 in the mail today. woohoo!
First thing I do is look up blue... I had no idea how lacking our blue ameraucana were. The words...\"each feather having a sharply defined lacing of black\" screams blue andalusian.
Oh we have so much work to do. lol
Again... so excited!!
:p
Mike Gilbert:
Now THIS is a project I can support. Improving what we already have is something that needs doing in several of our recognized varieties, both large and bantam. I will leave the development of new varieties to those who have more years left than I do. To those who wish to work on new varieties I have a little advice from someone who has been there and done that. Perseverance over time is key. But don\'t discount the value of existing genetic knowledge, as it will save you a lot of time and resources while you are persevering. Time is precious and should be well spent. Wednesday of this week I attended the funeral of a long-time acquaintance in the poultry hobby, and a current district director of the American Bantam Association. Somewhere along the line he lost hope and snapped. I wish I had spent more time talking to him over the years about the sure hope we have in Christ, and less about chickens. He was only 55.
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