Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

Yeah, I have a "nesting room" separate from their "coop" where they sleep, and for some reason she sleeps on the floor in a dark corner of the nesting room, so each night I have to grab her and put her on a perch in the coop.

The cockerel just sleeps on the floor as well, but that's mainly because after my Wheaten beat him up, he's pretty submissive, which I really hope will pass. . . I already have a splash Araucana cockerel who spends most of his day inside the boy's coop, and that is NOT healthy for him. . . All the food and water is outside, and there's not even much light that comes in on him.
 
I find my B/B much more flighty than my lavs which crowd me for attention. That said though, I have found my Cree birds to be the calmest of my B/B.
 
If you want pets, I recommend wheatens, buffs, whites then lavenders. In that order.

Just want birds that look pretty try the rest of them.

I haven't had brown reds, so don't know what they are like. I hope to get some in the next couple of years.....after I finish some of the other projects going on around here.
 
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It's dark pigment in the skin. It's not really something you want in your flock.

Bingo. See how my pullet doesn't have a red or even pink comb? It's sort of a dark mulberry color. . .

She's just for eggs and ornamental purposes and all. I love her super dark blue.​
 
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It's dark pigment in the skin. It's not really something you want in your flock.

Bingo. See how my pullet doesn't have a red or even pink comb? It's sort of a dark mulberry color. . .

She's just for eggs and ornamental purposes and all. I love her super dark blue.

Good to know...Thank you!
 
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It's dark pigment in the skin. It's not really something you want in your flock.

Bingo. See how my pullet doesn't have a red or even pink comb? It's sort of a dark mulberry color. . .

She's just for eggs and ornamental purposes and all. I love her super dark blue.

What color are her foot pads?

And is this seen in other varieties beside B/B?
 
I've only see one other hen throughout this thread to have gypsy face. . . She was blue.

My pullet has white soles. The problem has never occured in any others related to her or from her (few) offspring or parents, I think it is simply going along with her dark blue plumage.
 
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Ya know what- I might have a lavender with gypsy face. I just saw it on somebody but I looked at so many chickens today.
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Guess I'll have to go look at them all again. Darn.
 

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