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Ameraucana Marketplace / black gold - too much gold?

« on: April 20, 2006, 10:59:23 AM »

The pullets came out consistent in type and had a bit more lacing than their moms.  Several are completely laced into the tail.  The #1 cockerel is very young, but I was concerned with the coloring under his wings.  

What color is the #2 cockerel?  I will sell him this weekend but I will keep an eye out for his coloring to cull in the next generation.  I was going to cull him for type anyway but I wanted to see what color he was going to be. (It was dark in the house when I took the photos so their pupils were probably dilated.  I think their eyes are all reddish bay.)

Thanks for your help.

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Ameraucana Marketplace / black gold - too much gold?

« on: April 19, 2006, 11:39:14 PM »

The sire of my black gold bantams was critiqued as needing more lacing.  Now I\'m afraid I\'ve selected cockerels with too much gold, thinking that would give me more lacing.  (My pullets selected for more gold came out great - with lacing all the way to the tail.)

I really need help chosing which to keep before this weekend when one of them will be sold.  Photos show the sire and then cockerel 1 and 2.  Also the body type in the photos IS the way they look.  #2 has an Old English look.

First I thought I should sell the sire, but now I\'m thinking I should sell cockerel #2 and keep the sire to reduce the amount of gold.  I really don\'t understand the genetics of the pattern to decide!  HELP, please.

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Black Gold Color Variety

« on: April 18, 2006, 10:56:34 AM »

I haven\'t posted in a while.  Poor me had to work in Las Vegas for 3 months.  Came home ready to set my eggs and found that the neighbors Old English rooster, set free to forage, was foraging in my hen house!  Argh.  Need to wait another 3 weeks.

I also adding blue into my flock.  AWESOME addition.  I hope other folks want to add it also.  I have blue started in both LF and bantam.

Lyne

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Breeding / Black Golds...

« on: November 06, 2005, 08:35:07 PM »

Greetings.  I am indeed working on the black gold LF.  I only have one brown red hen that I crossed with my blue rooster, having lost my buff rooster to the neighbor\'s small dog.  I\'m working on the blue gold at the same time, so this first year is OK without the buff, but I\'m needing a buff now for the next cross.  Any buffs or F1 crosses that can be sent my way?  I will be crossing my F1 blue gold with by black gold bantams if the cockerels are not quite as large as their BIG blue dad from the Crees.  He\'ll be handy when I want good size later, but he\'s inconvenient for bantams right now.

Lyne Peterson