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In the Brooder
- Dec 3, 2015
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Vermont and yes to straight run.
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Im looking to the proposed standard of the lavender ameraucanas. What means a horn to black beak? The beak should compleatly black or is allowed to have a few yellow areas?
It may be hard to find much this time of year. My Lav hens haven't laid an egg for about 2 months. If you can get black hens, you can easily make splits and keep all the pullets you raise to breed back to their father. In my experience, you will get much better layers that way too, a lot of the Lav stock seems to be inbred or something. Last year I had a pen of 7 lavender pullets and another pen of 5 black split to lavender pullets. Both had lav cockerels. I think I hatched more lavender chicks from the pen of splits than the pen of pure lavenders, even considering that a lot of the chicks that hatched were black and only split for lavender. That is how much better the splits laid for me.
If I were you, I'd look for blacks or splits as well as pure lavenders. It will increase your chance of finding some.
Im looking to the proposed standard of the lavender ameraucanas. What means a horn to black beak? The beak should compleatly black or is allowed to have a few yellow areas?