Ancona Chicken Thread

[SanderB]

First chicks from this year:

 

[elizmartin]

Hello! I am in East Tennessee and would love to purchase some Ancona hatching eggs or chicks. Other than the large hatcheries like Murray Mcmurry, does anyone have a recommendation? I have ordered chicks (other breeds) from the large hatcheries and its been hit and miss on the quality of the birds. I would like to find breeding quality birds. Thanks!

Joseph at Yellow House would be my go to.....He Raises Rosecomb Ancona's and they were the healthiest chicks i have ever received......

 

[blumoonky40906]

Hi,
I saw this request for Ancona. I have both started chicks and hatching eggs available. I'm in SE KY just over the KY line north of Knoxville. You can Facebook me or email [email protected].
Debbie Payne

 

[horselover1999]

For those of you that hatch lots of chicks, have you ever had an odd colored chick from a mating you know would throw a certain color? I just hatched an Ancona chick but it doesn't look like an Ancona. I talked to one of my poultry friends that said it was an Ancona leghorn throwback. Have any of you hatched any?

 

[Jbalducci]

Is my 6 week old a cockerel? Started biting us and “caws” at 5:30 am. Or are they noisy and too early to tell? Close up is at 5 weeks

 

[Jbalducci]

Also- is he/she not an ancona after all? Green eyes. Not mottled yet, but solid black or white feathers. Thanks!!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Is my 6 week old a cockerel? Started biting us and “caws” at 5:30 am. Or are they noisy and too early to tell? Close up is at 5 weeks

It does look like an Ancona, and it is definitely a cockeral.

 

[bruceha2000]

This is one of the Anconas I got in June 2012 at about 8 weeks old. So yeah, with comb and wattles that big and red at 6 weeks, you have a cockerel.

 

[Sarahs Hens]

Here's my little lady. She's definitely skittish but warming up. About a year old.

 

[bruceha2000]

Mine were skittish for a time but they tamed down. Yours will get more white with every annual moult. I don't know if it is an Ancona thing or just mine but the only ways to know they were moulting was they stopped laying and their tail feathers slowly fell out one by one. Pretty funny watching a hen running around with only 1 or 2 tail feathers. Then those fell out and all were slowly replaced with a "bloom" of tail feathers. The body and head feathers must have been "lose one, grow one" because they never looked ratty. Then there are some of the other girls who annually look like they escaped from the chicken plucker ... barely.