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I learned how gentle pure Ameraucanas and Easter Eggers were after my friend and I got some for their blue and green eggs. We both saw how more skittish and timid they were in a flock of heavy dual layers like the Marans, Java, 'Lorps, Orps, Legs, Wyans, Sussex, and Sexlinks. That's when I...

What pictures of who or what chicken would you like to see? Mine, or someone else's? We're always happy to post pics! We BYC people LUV our chickens LOL!

Yep, I was hoping to have it all -- bantams, layers, ornamentals, fancies, dual purpose -- with a colorful egg basket -- all living in harmony NOT! I quickly found out the first year that I couldn't mix my DH's Silkies with assertive layer types. So now our flock is more pets than utility but...

I ordered two Blue Wheaten Amers to grow up together so they'd have each other to hang with but as luck would have it one died 2 weeks after arrival so my BW Amer was a loner. When I saw how the Marans, White Leghorn, and Buff Leghorn started to bully her and bully the Silkies by pulling out...

This is why I don't like to mix EEs or Amer's with layer breeds or dual purpose breeds. The EE/Amers are prone to timidness. They don't have the combative personality of our commonly known layer breeds. EE/Ams seems to prefer to flee rather than fight -- it's almost like they avoid conflict...

How are your winters? How do your chickens do in ND weather? Do you have them in a barn in winter or ???

Is it WV that is having flood problems while the rest of the Eastern states are in heatwaves? Crazy weather! We still have a canyon fire going on behind us in So Calif and a bad fire took homes and lives in Central Calif.

Our smaller breeds - Breda and Silkies - do best in our humid weather. Hot is one thing but added with humidity makes it seem much much worse. And the evenings stay in the 75 to 85oF range for days sometimes weeks at a time. Air conditioning makes no difference to us humans so I can't imagine...

If we had your heavier fluffy petticoat Buff Orps in our humid 100oF summers they'd be dropping over like flies in our hot yard. We have to have smaller less under-downed breeds in our climate! Our Ameraucana was not a heavy bird but she had a lot of thick under-down petticoat fluff and muffed...

I once lived at the canyon's bottom about 35 yrs ago but chose to locate further away and haven't regretted it. We were lucky this time that the smoke/fire got blown in the opposite direction and bless the aircraft and ground fighters to contain the fires. Two fires were going at once to merge...

If my Marans wasn't such a big heavy and mean flockmate, I'd take the time to research for a top good Marans breeder but a 7-lb breed is not good to mix with our 2-lb Silkies. Had to re-home too many aggressive heavy or dual-purpose breeds in the last 5 yrs and finally found a Blue Wheaten...

You want heat? 105oF and this going on in back of our house!

My Blue Breda is still cranking out eggs in this blasted 105oF heat - she started last November and still cranking 4 to 5 eggs/week. My silly little Black Silkie clown decided she'd BEGIN laying in this heat! Laying eggs has brought back her appetite! Silly little Silkie with cobwebs and...

Your Marans eggs will be darker than the average brown-egg layer -- just don't expect those dark dark dark chocolate eggs you see in online photos. I got about #4 color on the Marans egg chart. My friend's Cuckoo M's and BCM's were also around #4 -- we got our Marans all from different...

I've browsed MPC's website and I thought only Favaucanas were their baby but they have several blue egg and olive egg projects. I think it's a good idea because the Ameraucanas by themselves have so much lacking -- the breed really needs help. I've had 3 pure Ameraucanas from different...

All true! And the extreme laying champs - especially the White Leghorn - is 45% highly prone to not only reproductive issues but ovarian cancers which is why they are used widely for cancer research. If the extreme layer lives healthy past its 4th year it will continue to lay well into its 8th...

Your birds are too pretty to be EEs !!!! The blue is quiet unique. Cockerels can be pesty and probably shouldn't be around pullets until they or the pullets mature. Cockerels can really get beat up by the girls until they get past their first year. My friend had two cockerels that were...

If my math figures are correct it seems the EEs are not as good layers as your other dynamos but EEs are a way to add some pretty colors to the egg basket. I decided not to add any more blue layers to my flock after we had to put down our sweet Blue Wheaten Ameraucana. Not because she was not...

Only ever had one hen that once layed 2 eggs in one day and it was our prolific White Leghorn - we knew they were her eggs because the other hens were colored egg layers.

From the 3 yrs I had my Blue Wheaten Ameraucana and talking to BYC and my friend who has EEs they seem to be middle or bottom of flock politics although there has been an occasional aggressive hen but it's been rare from my contacts. Our BW Ameraucana was jittery, jumpy, kooky, spooky, wary...