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Have you tried pickyourown.org? The blueberry season is all but over for this year, but for other things and for future years, you should be able to find sources there.

so, I am pretty sure my araucana is actually a campine....I ordered an araucana. and another one that I ordered was a buff orp and I am pretty sure she is a wheaten. geesh. last time I order from family farm and home.   At least they have good prices on canning supplies...so they are good for something.

Does anyone know of anyone who has a Campine? just for comparison, and if I want to breed because my "campine" is pretty much my favorite chicken ever.

If you ordered an "araucana" from Family Farm & Home it is an Easter Egger, which is simply a mixed breed chicken that carries (or probably carries) the blue egg laying gene.  There is no such thing as a hatchery that sells purebred Araucanas.  Family Farm & Home usually contracts with Townline Hatchery in New Zeeland.  They do not carry Campines or Wheaten anything.

Can you post a picture of the birds in question?  We could help with identification that way.

Olive Hill, they are just really beinging here
There are a couple U-picks in the area (1 in St Louis and 1 on
Douglas about 4 miles north of 522 (aka Washington or Ithaca-Stanton Road)

I am getting mine from one of the guys I work with.
His grandmother-in-law has berries that they can't use all of.
We are trading them eggs for berries

The blackberries are just overrunning us.  Making jam this week

HH, The kids LOVE monster cookies, we'll prolly have to
make some pretty quick.  And I need to get another
coop built for the ducks, and then one for the Icelandics (I really want some, still talking the
wife into them).

Well, time for some more canning (berries, jam and chicken)

Hope everyone has a good day!

Good (late) morning all and welcome newcomers! I just made a double batch of my favorite crispy waffles so I would have some for the freezer. Recipe calls for club soda, but anything with bubbles works, so I used diet Vernors. I have used beer in a pinch! Here is the recipe:


Crisp Waffles
2 cups Bisquick
1 egg
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 1/3 cups club soda (10oz bottle)

This is from" Hollyhocks and Radishes" by Bonnie Stewart Mickelson - my favorite cookbook. She is from the UP and the recipes go by the season.
If you make some, be sure to double it for the freezer!

I love balckberries!!
Have her check out the Icelandic thread, DH wanted to keep them because they are rare and beautiful. I had actually thought about not keeping them due to lack of space but since DH is going to give over part of the shed for them, they get to stay. The Icelandic thread is here  http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=299038&p=1

Hmmm, that's odd.  Are you in a microclimate?  The season started a month ago here -- pretty much on schedule despite so many other things being late to produce.  I was done making blueberry jam for the season the middle of July and the supplies down this way started dwindling a couple weeks ago.  They're still out there, but not in the abundance they are at the beginning of the season.  It usually doesn't take that long for the season to make its way north.  This year has been odd though as far as that goes, I suppose. 

At any rate, that is encouraging news for those hoping to still put some up for the coming winter.

Nice trade on the berries for eggs.  We've got black raspberries and blackberries both that grow here, but we get our blueberries from another farm.  Bartering is always a good way to go.

Not sure about the microclimate   I think they are just a later variety.

Well, long time, no see. I have been very busy since before we went camping. We had our marching band camp this past week and I have now had the time to finally get back on byc. We have hatched 10 serama chicks since then and they are all a different color. We also went and sold some birds at the clare bird swap yesterday and we also got our very first pigeons. So we have been pretty busy and it is nice to be back on byc again.

Yep, no hatchery sells purebred Araucanas. The lethal gene would cut into their profits since a tufted x tufted would result in 25% of fertile eggs dead in shell. And rumpless n tufted birds bred together can still produce cleanfaced birds and/or tailed birds. If people are expecting to open up a hatchery box full of araucanas and get very few tufted n rumpless birds, they'd be very unhappy. Good news is that your EE should lay purdy blue eggs! Many hatcheries deceptively call their blue egg laying chicks Araucanas or Ameraucanas, after the established breeds that do lay blue eggs. It can definitely confuse people into thinking they are getting an actual breed, when instead they recieve a strange bird that may or may not even lay blue eggs!

Here is an example of a black Araucana I hatched from a breeder. The ear tufts are visible, and even though the picture wasn't a complete side profile, the rumplessness too. Only way to get a purebred araucana is through small breeders. Thankfully there are many here on BYC!