Ameraucana Breeders Club
The Official Forum of the Ameraucana Breeders Club => Exhibiting & Promoting => Topic started by: John on March 29, 2010, 07:03:27 PM
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Here are some chicks now in the mail and on thier way to NY. There are buff, lavender, silver, wheaten and black ones.
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John, I\'m seeing head spots on your buff chicks. I thought you had been culling for that for some time now. Does this change your e-locus theory? For what it\'s worth, I crossed buff with partridge (in Chanteclers) and the chicks do have a semblance of striping and head spots.
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Ahhhhh, too cute !!!! Lucky owner....
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No. I hadn\'t noticed the \"head spots\" before. Here is another shot of those same 5 buff chicks, from the side. The majority of buff chicks still don\'t turn out looking this good. Maybe next year...
I think what we are seeing on the heads is the same marking as most wheaten chicks. Since they are both wheaten based, the black line, spot or mark that the wheatens have may be a darker shade of buff on a buff chick (?). The camera flash made it stand out.
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aaww someone is getting a nice little easter present.
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Here are the lavenders...
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silvers...
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wheatens...
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and blacks...
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Oh, you\'re killing me! They\'re beautiful chicks. I have just a few Lavender X Black-Lavender split eggs due to hatch this weekend that I put in with some Marans eggs, and I can hardly wait.
I am seriously considering selling most of the other breeds I have and concentrating mostly on the Ameraucanas from now on. I have a terrible fever, and I think I caught it here!
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Wow, talk about some serious \"eye candy\". Love \'em. Can\'t wait to get mine!
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They\'re beautiful!! Wish they were headed to NC in stead of NY!
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John,
Those silver chicks are spectacular. Do you have a mold?
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Harry,
We are making progress with the LF silvers (and the other varieties too). The muffs are fuller and the combs are smaller than a few years ago.
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John,
The other chicks are also very nice, it is just the photo of the silvers really caught my eye. You always do such a great job breeding all the varieties of the Ameraucanas.
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I\'ve hatched hundreds of black Ameraucana chicks over the years, but don\'t remember one with the phenotype of this one that hatched this past weekend. It is a LF and has a stripe of white/cream down on the left side of its head. The rest of him looks pretty much the same as his siblings.
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This is a good example of a harmless mutation. I have had the same thing occur in brown red chicks, with a streak of brown across the back of the head or neck where it would normally be black. There is a good article explaining how mutations occur at www.answersingenesis.org . Use the search engine to find Bodie Hodge\'s work entitled, \"Are Mutations the Engines of Evolution?\"
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Mike, do those little discolorations show up in adult plummage as odd colored feathers?
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Fascinating! So if it\'s a mutation, does the mark remain in adult plumage? Does it change?
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Mike, do those little discolorations show up in adult plummage as odd colored feathers?
Hard to tell with the brown reds, as they end up with red hackles anyway. If John keeps this black and marks it/bands it, he may be able to tell us.
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It is interesting. I have had several black Ameraucana chicks come to me this year and have noted some that are all black, some with a white mark on the side of the face, some with face mottling, some with white/yellow chest/butt fluff, some with a kind of grey fluff, a few with black wing tip feathers, but most had white wing tips of sort 1-3 feathers worth. I also have a black chick with a grey head.
eliz
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It is a LF and has a stripe of white/cream down on the left side of its head. The rest of him looks pretty much the same as his siblings.
I sold this guy at a swap meet this morning, but took a few photos yesterday to show how he feathered out. He has some white showing in the black feathers in the area that had white down and a slight amount near the base of his tail on the same (left) side.
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Interesting - glad you kept him around until he feathered out.
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Neat! I wonder if he could be used produce mottled birds?
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FYI, here is a black chick with a brown/gold stripe in the right side of it\'s head. This is similar...but different...than the chick with white/silver on it\'s left side last year.