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    Hey, Just hatched some Americauna, I think.

    I see...I was sold my "Ameraucanas" and they have slate colored legs/feet, tails, green eggs, beards and muffs (all good traits) but I feel like mine are mixed thus EE's. Someone explained to me that the egg color in Ameraucanas is determined by their parentage/feather color. The eggs I just...
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    Setting Eggs Sunday April 29th - Hatch-a-long with me!

    Just set Black Copper Marans, Black Austalorps and White Ameraucanas last night! She has discarded one egg already so we'll see how this thing goes...using my broody Black Australorp Georgia who is hopefully gonna be a good mama if she holds true to her breed. So excited for my first "Broody...
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    Hey, Just hatched some Americauna, I think.

    I have gotten conflicting advice on this. I have Ameraucanas. Check out this website for a good explanation of Ameraucanas, Araucanas and Easter Eggers. It helped me to understand more about all three. http://www.ameraucana.org/faq.html
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    Will scattered woodchip bedding be detrimental to/kill my grass?

    Hubby dumped some old litter out in our back pasture and it killed every stitch of grass underneath it. Could have been the wood chips or the combo of wood and litter but it killed it quick.
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    No eggs yet

    My Ameraucana did the same thing. She was the last to start laying (started when she was almost 9 months old) out of my 12 hen flock which I raised from day olds. She was timid and wound up at the bottom of the pecking order fairly early on. I believe wholeheartedly that a happy chicken lays...
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    cuckoo marans

    Went yesterday to pick up fertilized eggs for our broody hen and purchased 4 Black Copper Marans eggs. The guy had a great setup with multiple pens of French BCM and all the ones he had were feather footed. He said his were French and that they would all have feather feet so I would think a...
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    Please help me id this chick

    This little one looks like my Easter Eggers. They all had chipmunk markings but in particular this variation turned out to be a silver EE.
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    Help - which is which boys/girls

    The second photo looks identical to my Welsummer I raised from day old and she was a she! Her name was Willow and she was by far the smartest of my entire flock. Great egg layer of beautiful dark brown eggs.
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