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What Results from Mixing Ameraucana Silver with Ameraucana Wheaten?
Guest:
Silver male on a wheaten female will produce a male that is red on the shoulders and straw or redish yellow on the back, saddles and hackles.
Rooster
Guest:
Thank you.
--Ron
grisaboy:
Hi Ron,
The birds I gave away that showed up at our 4H fair were Ameraucana / Old English crosses as well as color crosses. Definitely in the the Easter Egg class.
Your birds will probably be a lot closer to Ameraucana type than mine were.
The Silver/Wheaton cross roosters that you create may be useful in a breeding program if they have excellent type and are the only way to get certain genes into your strain. I only give you the caution because if they go to someone who does not know what they are, they could cause a lot of grief.
This is a sex link cross, but you wont see the difference in the chicks. Only when they grow out feathers. The chicks should be mostly white or yellow with a light stripe. They probably wont have as dark stripes as your Silvers, and probably won\'t be as yellow as the wheatons.
Curtis
Guest:
Sex linked crosses involve a red male (wheaten and columbian restricted) on a silver female. Some sex linked crosses are red male on a silver/dominate white female( Rhode island red on Rhode island white).
Others are a red male on a barred female. A red and silver cross, red sexlinked cross, produces a whitish downed male chick and a reddish downed female chick. A red x barred cross, black sex linked, produces black downed female chicks and the male chicks are black downed with a cream head spot.
Rooster
grisaboy:
Ron,
You mentioned that you are not planning on showing your birds. Why not?
I know its not for everyone, but as long as you\'re raising them why not add another demention to your hobby?
I go to 2 maybe 3 shows per year and it\'s not a huge expense. You know the old adage, \'It costs the same to feed a show bird as the others\'.
Sounds like you have a good start with Ameraucanas, even if you don\'t think they are show quality, they may be closer than you think?
It\'s fun to see what every one else thinks is show quality. And sometimes surprising what the judges think are show quality.
Curtis
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