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Buff Ameraucanas
Mike Gilbert:
I agree. The white tends to \"leak\" into the finished buff, especially in the wings. If starting from scratch I would use wheaten. If you can find wheaten females with very little black in the tail - not hard in the Ameraucana breed, so much the better.
bryngyld:
I bought a buff cockerel from Jay (did I remember his name right?) to put over my black gold hens. He just worked himself out of a job. I have more than enough offspring to take over the world. I\'m noting that I got a lot of solid buff chicks, about half without slate legs. The buff rooster has only a tint of slate to his legs. If anyone would like him, they can have him for the cost of shipping. I\'ll try to attach his photo somewhere. I can attach it to an email if interested. lyne@bryngyld.com
Also, interestingly, one of the chicks is light chocolate. Anyone have something like this. The legs look chocolate too. Interesting color. It might be good in developing the lavenders (maybe).
bryngyld:
Here is the buff rooster. It\'s HOT here. He wasn\'t panting until I looked at him and pointed the camera at him, though.
How \'bout this milk chocolate chick?
Mike Gilbert:
Looks a lot like a white chick to me. They are usually smokey in the chick down, but the feathers come in white.
Chances are both the parents were carrying the recessive white gene.
bantamhill:
Looks like it might be white to me!
Michael
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