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  1. hbarn

    Farm Swap at TSC in Lewiston Maine- May 12th, 2012

    If the chicks came from a hatchery chances are they are easter eggers, that is they will not fully meet the APA standard for Ameraucana and they will not breed true. Ameraucanas need to be one of the accepted colors i.e. wheaten, brown red, black etc. need all of the breed characteristics, need...
  2. hbarn

    I'll never find the right rooster :( can you help? UPDATE: PIC of roo!

    I also really love my ameraucana roosters, have had four mature wheatens and a blue and all have been nice tempered roosters. The worst rooster I ever had was a RIR, a big handsome nasty rooster. Good luck.
  3. hbarn

    Maine chicken swaps 2010

    I went to the Augusta TSC swap today and from my perspective it was great. I arrived a little before 9 and sold 15 birds to the first person to walk up as I opened the back of my vehicle the remaining 6 and my hatching eggs were sold in a few more minutes and by the time I walked around most of...
  4. hbarn

    Hey Maine Chicken Lovers Whos Going To The Swap May 1st At Tsc Augusta

    This was a great day! My first farm sale swap event and we had beautiful weather all kinds of nice people and interesting items for sale, if you got there early! Twenty one birds and my hatching eggs sold in the first 1/2 hour for me, I hope all their new owners enjoy them. I missed most of the...
  5. hbarn

    Hey Maine Chicken Lovers Whos Going To The Swap May 1st At Tsc Augusta

    I just spotted this post, and am planning to attend and bring my extra ameraucana and ameraucana cross chicks, a wheaten ameraucana rooster( I'm keeping his son) and a few laying pullets that are wheaten ameraucana x non-standard colored ameraucana, and wheaten x buff orpington ( look like buff...
  6. hbarn

    who should I suspect?

    Were they all brown eggs?
  7. hbarn

    Hello from Quebec, Canada

    Bonjour and welcome from a neighbor to your south in Maine. My husband and I love the beautiful province of Quebec and holiday there often. How has your weather been this summer? We've had a very cold wet start to our summer in Maine. Not great weather for chickens or much else! Have you kept...
  8. hbarn

    How bad is this?

    Thanks for the encouragement all. I've read a bunch of opinions on humidity and just went with the 45%-50% during incubation and tried to raise it to 65% -75% hatching that I read in most of the extension and university guides but I know that's higher than many BYC folks prefer. This is going to...
  9. hbarn

    anyone else hatching may 1st

    I just saw the May 1st group when posted a new question for my May first hatch! Good luck to all of us, I've already got one and am waiting to see how it turns out on my other 7.
  10. hbarn

    How bad is this?

    I sat up listening to my first egg peeping and reading up on hatching optimistically last night day 20 of my first hatch. I had a pipped and halfway zipped egg at 4;00am when I checked and got a few more hours of sleep. When I checked at 6:15 I had a chick! and a 94 degree homemade bator with...
  11. hbarn

    WANTED: POSITIVE FEEDBACK on BYC sellers

    I have to leave great feedback for solsken farm. I actually visited her lovely farm and bought my small starter flock of 2 buff orp pullets an ameraucana rooster and an EE hen. Jennifer was extremely helpful and all of her stock was beautiful and well kept. I will be back to add to my budding...
  12. hbarn

    Ameraucana color question

    Thanks for the suggestions on where to start the search for information on egg color genetics. It does sound more like coat color genetics if I understand what Sonoran Silkies wrote that there are 12 genes affecting shell color, with basic brown or white being the two main types with blue an...
  13. hbarn

    Ameraucana color question

    I'm new to the chickens but have a grasp of genetics and can try to explain the eye color questions, maybe it has some corelation to egg color as far as showing how things can be masked or dominant. In humans blue eye color is recesive to other colors to be expressed you must have two blue...
  14. hbarn

    New member from Maine

    Thanks for all the warm welcomes!Please don't be offended if I'm not prompt responding to posts as I don't get on my computer every day and I have dial-up that sometimes doesn't work too well. Love hearing from all the Mainers, I hope to get out and see some of you at events as my schedule...
  15. hbarn

    New member from Maine

    A quick hello from a new member in Maine. I had chickens years ago and have always wanted to keep them again. I found this site through a search and have found it invaluable for researching this project. Until now I'd just been reading all the posts and learning but was able to find a BYC member...
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