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Laced Blue Ameraucana
Jean:
--- Quote from: 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
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I\'ve only seen one bird since I started showing that met this definition. It was a beautiful sumatra shown by Tom Kernan (I think he is one of our members too!!!) at Ohio.
When I think of the defintion I think of the pattern I see on the laced varieties of wyandottes.
Beth C:
Mike: So sorry to hear of the loss of your friend. Really puts things in perspective...
Christie Rhae:
--- Quote from: Jean ---
I\'ve only seen one bird since I started showing that met this definition. It was a beautiful sumatra shown by Tom Kernan (I think he is one of our members too!!!) at Ohio.
When I think of the defintion I think of the pattern I see on the laced varieties of wyandottes.
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Yeah that is awesome lacing. One of the differences I see tho between the laced wyandottes and the blue description is
BLUE: \"main tail, main and lesser sickles, coverts.......distinctly laced with glossy black\"
LACED WYANDOTTE: the main tail, sickles and coverts are lustrous, greenish black.
So, no lacing on wyandottes tail. Blue andalusians have lacing on every feather it seems..even the thighs are supposed to have laced feathers. Which I don\'t even see on many pics of blue andalusians that I have seen here in the US. The european andalusians have that.
You know what they say about a little knowledge being dangerous? lol... I might get dangerous with my new book. Gonna drive everyone crazy quoting out of it. :)
vanalpaca:
Christie, I am interested in working on blue LF Ameraucana. Please cue me in on what you have figured out so far. I have chicks coming in this spring so I should have something to work with come next year.
Will just any Andalusian do, or is there a breeder out there that has some really good ones?
Also, don\'t know about the e genes yet. Takes a lot to get stuff into this aging brain.....so which birds on the Ameraucana have the ER/ER?? and what is that???? Cheers, Bonnie in OHIO
Christie Rhae:
Bonnie,
Have you read the E-locus thread that John Blehm started? That is very informative and might help you understand that part better.
I am trying to write on this thread anything new that I figure out for the benefit of anyone else that is also working on this.
Are you waiting for Genetics of Chicken Colours? I finally got mine and am half way through it. The chicken genetics is broken down in a way that is easy to understand. Things will make much more sense after you read that book.
The advice I was given is \"find the best laced andalusians and the best example of black ameraucana and hatch lots and lots of chicks\".
I have not been able to find any black (or blue) birds that are based on ER/ER. So that is a problem. The andalusians most likely are ER/ER so I will have to select for that hopefully in the second generation. The first generation will all be E/ER. I assume at this point that the birds with the best lacing will be the ER/ER ones. It sounds like the lacing will work best on them. By selecting the best hopefully one day I may have ER/ER based blues with lacing. ;)
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