Ameraucana

well i have already found him a new home and will be taking him there tonight after work. The place i am taking him has lots of other birds so i think he will do well there with it being free range as well. he always seem better when he was free ranging in my yard.

you can go to www.ameraucana.org and get on the breeders directory to get true ameraucanas. If all you want it colored eggs just get some easter eggers (actually mutts but this is what hatcheries call them) A few hatcheries have pure ameraucanas. But half of them label them wrong and mislead people

CCCCCCCCHICKENS: thank you for the web add. I am going to keep it in my file but it has been a head ach looking for them and along the way I found out that I don't have to breed one to a blk copper maran to get a chocolate egg layer, I can just get a Welsummer for that, and go a head and get some ee's for my green/blues. Never knew it was such a mental strain trying to get the right chicken for the right eggs.... lol and of course I have to be a picky butt...

everyone loves a colorful egg basket! I hope you get all the right chickens for the eggs you want

I have one Blue Ameraucana hen, and I absolutely love her!
I've been searching recently for a roo as well. I would really love to have more of these lovely birds.

Love that beard. My Ameracauna is also very sweet, likes people and she is an egg laying machine!

Thanks for your input, but you like the fact that your neighbors get annoyed?

Lol! Sounds like my Barred Rock! My Ameraucana is my favorite bird, I'm sorry for the loss of your Miriam.

Thanks! I'm not going to get another purebred Am just yet, but I may get one in the spring.

How can you get just one? Haha

Sorry I did not check this sooner, i forget to check the reviews I write a lot. You can get on here www.ameraucana.org . It is the ameraucana breeders website. You can geton the breeders directory and look for breeders near you.

Good point

I love my ameraucanas too, theyre wonderful birds. Perhaps flighty was the wrong word. They're not LAP CHICKENS. They are "friendly" in the sense that they will come near me, but they dont seek out human attention.

We dont add artificial light for our birds so they slow down laying in the fall like they do naturally. When I say they're not good for eggs it's not because of how oftent hey lay but rather because their eggs are not very big and mine are constantly broody all spring and summer.

Sounds like you might have gotten a really bad chicken, not so much a bad breed. Maybe it was bred poorly or treated wrong before you got it. Either way that sounds like an unhealthy chicken if it has a messed up beak and never leaves the coop.

I have just ordered some.

They look like lovely birds! Though I choose Pekin bantams still...How do you make these? I would really like to know!

PA Blue Wheaten Ameraucana pullet is what I have. I ordered 2 pullet juveniles but 1 died about 3 weeks later unknown reason other than she never grew like her sister who grew & doubled in size. Our remaining big sister was sweet but so skittish & spooked we thought she'd always be jittery. We had her indoors for a month before putting her outdoors to get acquainted w/ the other 3 hens thru a rabbit fence. Eventually we brought one sweet Silkie to be w/ her on her side of the fence. They seemed to get along but she was still skittish. She flapped around all over the yard at any movement or noises in the neighborhood. I didn't realize this immature behavior was standard for this breed. In-house she was calm & ate treats out of our hand & let us hold her. She even took naps in our arms. However, once outside, she was a wild child running to and fro. It wasn't until she started laying that she calmed down enough to take treats out of our hand at the same time w/ the other hens. She lets the oldest Silkie be the alpha hen & submits to her. The Ameraucana is not interested in flock politics & just wants to go about her business. And she is a busy forager. The blue eggs are a pretty treat and varies between 2 - 2.25 oz. Since she has South American breed history we figured to feed her a crustaceous diet w/ sweet potatoes, quinoa, whole grains, cranberries fresh or dried, fresh corn, & turmeric sprinkled in her food in addition to the varied diet we feed all the others. Silkie breed history is Asian so we make sure they get cooked rice w/ Brewers Yeast powder and it's a big hit w/them. A bird's breed origin sure shows in the diet they prefer. Our Mediterraneans are the only breed to eat the garden tomatoes. The Ameraucana loves my Sweet & Hot Peppers plus the leaves! May be just coincidence but our breeds origins sure shows in the diets they prefer.

Thanks for posting about how yours calmed down with age. I'm also glad to hear that she's not aggressive!

I rescued several hens in Dec from a hoarder situation, including one ameraucana. She was very frightened as were all of them initially, but she's a social sweetheart and lays at least 5 blue-green eggs/week. Unfortunately she's the smallest and was immediately thrown to the bottom of the pecking order. The others frequently just peck at her for no reason and it's sad to watch.

My feed store amerucana pullets are entirely different from these descriptions! From chicks to now nearing 3 yrs old, they were all very friendly (except for the one that was a roo-he got eaten after he attacked me) one gal seemed to be kinda crazy and I finally just put her down b4 she started laying, it seemed like she had something basically wrong with her. They are all beautiful and delightful birds. Very calm and friendly, they will climb in my lap if I hang out in the coop or run. They will each hide their head under my arms and then the others will come up and hide their head under the ones already in my lap and they all will just stand/sit there until I cry uncle! Silly girls! I really like their basic calmness.
I ordered 24 more of them for this year since the originals are aging.