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Ontario Chick:
Thank you for the link.
If my head wasn't exploding before, it's well on it's way now.  :)

John:

--- Quote ---the color looks extra nice for a blue
--- End quote ---
By that I mean for a blue "Ameraucana"...it is closer to "standard" blue than most blues (Ameraucana) I've seen. 
Of course we still want to aim for the Standard as Christie is working toward.
  http://ameraucana.org/forum/index.php?topic=1797.0

Ontario Chick:
I am going to get few more close up pictures of her and post them.
I seem to have gotten sucked in to this by accident. I was breeding Columbian Wyandottes (still am) and just wanted a few Ameraucanas "for Fun"!
The Black/Blue/Splash split, has sucked me in to some vortex and now I wish I had paid more attention at school when genetics were discussed.
My aim isn't too ambitious, just breed as close to the Standard as I can, which is proving way more complicated then I could have ever imagined, but these birds are downright irresistible.
My Splash chicks and 8 weeks old Blues

Ontario Chick:
Well this has certainly been couple of days of discovery.
After taking about hundred 'smudgy' pictures of very uncooperative hen, I went thru them quickly to narrow it down before downloading. After erasing most of them, it occurred to me that several had whitish smudge around the head, so back to the barn I went and sure enough, she has 'whitish' ear-lobes.
This hasn't really been obvious before, but about a month ago I have put a cock in with the hens and they have been lovingly 'grooming each other, so everybody's muffs are becoming sparse.
So I guess that gives me a pretty good idea of where the good Blue color comes from.
I doubt I would have noticed it, if it wasn't for this forum help, well worth the price of admission. thank you.

Jean:
If it is just skin color that is ok.  You just don't want enamel white on the ear lobe.  It will look iredescent like "mother of pearl".

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