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Guest:
We just bought some new chickens, they lay some beautiful blue eggs. We have 10 total, 7 hens and 3 roosters, they all have the same coloring and build. They look alot like the silver ameraucana, but I would love to get your input. I have dialup which makes it next to impossable to attach any pictures to this, but we have pictures on our website, larkllin.com on our whats new page. Thanks!!

John:
I too have a dialup modem.  It really is doesn\'t take much time to upload the photo attachments since we don\'t accept any over 35kb.  Just crop and reduce them to 35kb or less before attaching.

Guest:
Okay, I am trying to add the picture of one of the roosters and a few hens on here now. Thanks for the information, I think I have it small enough.

grisaboy:
Hello Larkllin,
Welcome to the site.  I looked at your web page and the pictures that you have posted there.  It looks like what you have are what we call Easter Eggers.  These are very close to Ameraucanas but not quite there because they don\'t quite meet the standard description.  These are what I call white headed silvers.  I am using some hens like this in my silver breeding program to try to improve the color of my silver males. Your male has the same problem that I have with the red/yellow color on the wings.  If he were all white where he is yellow, then he could be called silver.  He has some leg color issues too,  should be slate color.
I don\'t quite understand the genetics of these white headed silvers.  True silver females should have a salmon colored breast.  I don\'t know if these white headed birds are missing the gene for salmon breasts or if they have some gene that covers up the salmon.  Any ideas?
I think that if we could get a better understanding of the genetics of these white headed (and yellow headed)  birds, we might be able to use them to develop color varieties or patterns unique to Ameraucanas.
Larkllin, If you were to get a true silver male to put over those white headed hens,  you probably would hatch some true silver offspring.  It is a nice looking flock.

Good luck
Curtis

Guest:
The salmon breast in females is due to the wild type gene e+. The females in the picture could be eb , dark brown or ebc butter cup. If the backs of the birds have stippling they are eb or ebc. If the backs are a solid dark color they are ER or birchen.

There are unidentified red diluters that cause the red color to clear from the wing bows and upper back of quality silver birds. Old english game bantams carry these diluters and that is why they look so good. I do not know if they are dominate or recessive.

Silver is not comletely dominate and if a male bird is heterozygous (S/s+) they will show the red or straw colors. You do not see the same effect in females because they are hemizygous. They only carry one gene for silver or they carry one gene for gold. They can not carry both.


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