2011 Ameraucana Breed Pen Set ~Up We have expanded our Ameraucana flock for the 2011 breeding season. We hatched out many super quality birds in 2010 and decided to hang on to them to add to our breeding flock. We also have added the white variety and are very excited to see the quality youngsters that these birds will produce. We get many questions as to what the codes mean on each of our hatching eggs. As we gather our eggs we code them according to which pen they came out of. This allows us to track fertility and special breeding projects. |
BK1 |
WN1 |
WN2 |
BK2 |
WN3 |
BK2 pen consists of a 2010 cockerel and a 2009 hen. This is a super pair and will produce some wonderful offspring. |
BK1 pen consists of a 2009 old male and four 2010 pullets. In this pen we are working on increasing the green sheen on the offspring. |
WN1 pen This is our blue wheaten / wheaten pen. We only retained 2 blue wheaten females so this is our only pen that will produce some blue wheaten offspring this year. |
WN2 pen This is our comb pen. We have penned our best combed birds in this pen. We are wanting to produce more males with small compact combs so we are using our 4 smallest combed females for this project. This pen is headed by our best show male. |
WN3 pen This is our tail pen. We have used the birds with the best shaped tailed in this pen and also the birds with the best black coloring in wings and tails. We are hoping to produce birds that have wonderful well spread tails with lots of black in the wing and tail. This pen has 4 super tailed females and our 2nd best show male. |
Black Gold This is a new breeding program for us. We have been fortunate enough to obtain a pair of Black Gold bantams from Mike Gilbert. We are excited to beging working with this variety this spring. |