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post #4931 of 9880
2/27/12 at 2:13pm

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1 wife of 35 yrs, 17 yr old son, 1 Americana, 1OE   8 copper Maran, 1splash  2 copper Maran roo  , 1 indoor cat, 1 indoor/outdoor Tomcat, 10 outside cats (today)

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post #4932 of 9880
2/27/12 at 2:18pm

Here are the pictures as promised, very disappointed in this hatch 4/17

I have never hatched less than 90% before.  I have heard that females

are hardier than males so maybe the will all be pullets.

1 wife of 35 yrs, 17 yr old son, 1 Americana, 1OE   8 copper Maran, 1splash  2 copper Maran roo  , 1 indoor cat, 1 indoor/outdoor Tomcat, 10 outside cats (today)

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post #4933 of 9880
2/27/12 at 2:28pm

Very pretty babies!  What breed(s)?

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post #4934 of 9880
2/27/12 at 2:36pm

Anne said they were EE and Olive eggers

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post #4935 of 9880
2/27/12 at 3:43pm
Thread Starter 

Nope.  The blue eggs were all pure ameraucana.  They would be either splash or blue chicks.  The brown eggs were just added for fun and they were all EEs.  Any black chicks are EEs.  Blue or splash chicks have to be true AMs.

 

I'm sorry it was a bad hatch.  Did you candle before you lost power?  How many were developing at that point?

Breeder of B/B/S ameraucanas, easter eggers, olive eggers and buff silkies
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Breeder of B/B/S ameraucanas, easter eggers, olive eggers and buff silkies
NPIP
For more chicken pictures than you can stand, check out my blog- www.farmeranne.blogspot.com
Web page-  http://teacherhousefarm.webs.com/
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post #4936 of 9880
2/27/12 at 4:22pm

I'll take them outside  tomorrow and check for development. Power was only off for a hour and I covered incubator with blanket within a minute of outage total of a hour and a half before it was back to temp..  I'll tell you tomorrow what I find.

1 wife of 35 yrs, 17 yr old son, 1 Americana, 1OE   8 copper Maran, 1splash  2 copper Maran roo  , 1 indoor cat, 1 indoor/outdoor Tomcat, 10 outside cats (today)

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1 wife of 35 yrs, 17 yr old son, 1 Americana, 1OE   8 copper Maran, 1splash  2 copper Maran roo  , 1 indoor cat, 1 indoor/outdoor Tomcat, 10 outside cats (today)

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post #4937 of 9880
2/27/12 at 4:55pm

I candled my first 115 eggs, not as bad as I thought... get to be pretty good after that many eggs lau.gif I tossed 17 eggs and could have tossed 50-60, but most of them are Marans so I was just not really sure, but pretty sure.  I was surprised to see that ALL but 1 of my Lav, Lav Split eggs where developing clap.gif now if I can get them to hatch... are Ameraucanas just harder to get a good hatch rate... those and my Marans/Olive Eggers have just been bad.... So that was good and bad news, I am not as panicked as I was .... tongue.png

 

Anne do your EE all have beards and muffs?  I need more bearded/muffed EE.  I think I only have two now.... I know I will have plenty down the road.  Are they reg EE or non standard Ameraucana colors?

Donna  -   Wife and mother first, unless the chickens need me smile.png  With God ALL things are possible.

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Lavender Ameraucana Breeders Thread

 

 

 

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Donna  -   Wife and mother first, unless the chickens need me smile.png  With God ALL things are possible.

My Breeds and Hatching Eggs that are available HERE

My reg and Mega Incubator with turner HERE the Mega bator has a link at the bottom of the page

My Pallet Breeding Pens HERE

My Pallet brooders/Growout Pens HERE

Lavender Ameraucana Breeders Thread

 

 

 

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post #4938 of 9880
2/28/12 at 6:07am
Thread Starter 

All of my first generation EEs have beards and muffs.  Last summer I tried crossing a 1st gen rooster back into the mix and I got all kinds of random stuff.  He's gone off to Camp Kenmore though, so I'm back to pure 1st gen EE hatches now.

 

Both my AM pen and my EE pen have ameraucana roosters so all of the offspring come out with buffs and beards. The splash rooster is over a couple of barred rocks (in the AM pen) and the black rooster is over an assortment of large fowl hens (buff orps, welsummers, wyandottes, wheaten marans, barred rocks, etc).  I will tell you though that there was an errant gene in the AM pen last year and I had one EE come out laying brown eggs.  The splash rooster is new this season though, so I'm not sure what his offspring will be like.  I haven't done an EE hatch yet.  That is next up on the roster.  I have AMs and olive eggers in the bator right now.

 

The only non-standard AMs that I am doing right now are the splash.  smile.png

Breeder of B/B/S ameraucanas, easter eggers, olive eggers and buff silkies
NPIP
For more chicken pictures than you can stand, check out my blog- www.farmeranne.blogspot.com
Web page-  http://teacherhousefarm.webs.com/
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Breeder of B/B/S ameraucanas, easter eggers, olive eggers and buff silkies
NPIP
For more chicken pictures than you can stand, check out my blog- www.farmeranne.blogspot.com
Web page-  http://teacherhousefarm.webs.com/
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post #4939 of 9880
2/28/12 at 6:24pm

I am planing on getting 25-30 chicks around the end of march and I was looking for hatcheries in my area and I found this one  http://www.poultryhollow.org/p1.htm  Poultry Hollow Hatchery it is only about 2-2 1/5  hours away from my house. So I was wondering if any of you have ever bought from these people? and are they reputable? 

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post #4940 of 9880
2/28/12 at 6:34pm
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I am planing on getting 25-30 chicks around the end of march and I was looking for hatcheries in my area and I found this one  http://www.poultryhollow.org/p1.htm  Poultry Hollow Hatchery it is only about 2-2 1/5  hours away from my house. So I was wondering if any of you have ever bought from these people? and are they reputable? 



What are you looking for and where are you?

Donna  -   Wife and mother first, unless the chickens need me smile.png  With God ALL things are possible.

My Breeds and Hatching Eggs that are available HERE

My reg and Mega Incubator with turner HERE the Mega bator has a link at the bottom of the page

My Pallet Breeding Pens HERE

My Pallet brooders/Growout Pens HERE

Lavender Ameraucana Breeders Thread

 

 

 

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Donna  -   Wife and mother first, unless the chickens need me smile.png  With God ALL things are possible.

My Breeds and Hatching Eggs that are available HERE

My reg and Mega Incubator with turner HERE the Mega bator has a link at the bottom of the page

My Pallet Breeding Pens HERE

My Pallet brooders/Growout Pens HERE

Lavender Ameraucana Breeders Thread

 

 

 

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