Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Nat123]

This is our white Ameraucana. We named it Snowy since it's all white but I wonder if it will stay white. Thoughts?

 

[pips&peeps]

If it's a true ameraucana, then yes it will stay all white.

If it is an ee, it could be white or have some red leakage, no telling.

 

[Frost Homestead]

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he doesn't look like a splash wheaten to me

opps didn't see Jean had already said it

 

[Christie Rhae]

Rest In Peace Spike.
Early this morning I lost the first chicken that has ever died under my care. I have only been doing chickens for a couple years so I am sure there will be more but this first one really hurts.
A pack of dogs managed to pull his head off through a chain link fence. I have no idea how they manages that unless Spike was trying to fight them and somehow got nabbed.
I am devastated. He was my favorite. At only 4 months old had just the puffiest beard and muffs. Such a sweet gentle bird. I hatched him from eggs I bought. So sad.
Now smaller wire is going around the chain link. I made up a three page newsletter for my neighbors talking all about Ameraucanas and the trials/adventure I have had trying to hatch shipped eggs and on the last page... I printed pics of dismembered Spike. I hope it is shocking to my neighbors. We have told them over and over that their dogs are bothering our chickens. I know they just think "oh yeah chickens.. dime a dozen.. no big deal". We spend hundreds reinforcing our coops. Just thought the chain link was tough enough so had not double fenced it. I guess that is a lesson hard learned. I am so sad.

(That is my blue marans on the left)

 

[aceschix]

Oh I am so sorry!

Can you call animal control and have them DO something?!?

 

[Goose and Fig]

So sorry Christie!

I had racoons pull apart birds through 1 x 2 welded wire. Horrible thing to come home or wake up to

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

X2 so sorry for your pain and loss.
I live in a rural area and everyone thinks their dogs should "roam free in the country". I put up an electric fence. It cost me less then $50.00 and saved alot of my chickens. It does not kill the dogs, only gives them a quick zap. A little stonger then the feel of a 9v battery on your tongue. I have been zapped by the fence and it is something you try not to do again. I hope your letters to the neighbors helps.

 

[flower]

So sad for you and the bird. It is usually the best birds also. Mary

 

[SD_Paulo]

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x2...except ours were being pulled thru by Coyotes. They even went so far as to kil my Male SQ Dewlap Toulouse. Until, I trapped one and let her squeal and yelp, that night, to scare the others off. I didnt hurt her, she was just scared out of her mind. They never returned.

Coyotes are smart enough to remember danger. Dogs too lady! cant say the same for Coons.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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I'm so sorry to hear this, Christie. I know how much the birds mean to you.