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  1. Sethanie

    Review by '' on item 'Ameraucana'

    I got my 3 girls almost 2 years ago at a poultry auction. They are a dusty, bluish shade. They are fairly skittish and don't like to be petted, but I never really worked with them (I'm contrasting this with my new Black Sex Links that surprised the heck out of me by trying to perch on me or eat...
  2. Sethanie

    Sethanie says Hi!

    RAISINS! I sat down outside the pen and tossed raisins at their feet. In 10 minutes I had a couple of them a foot away from me :) Thank you! It's the start of a beautiful friendship!
  3. Sethanie

    Newbie from SE Kansas

    Oh a fellow SEKer! I just joined today, too!
  4. Sethanie

    Sethanie says Hi!

    When we got them I looked online and found pics week by week of americauna chicks. I figured they were around 5 weeks old. We kept them in a large dog crate until they were bigger and ready for the last of winter. And until we had finished the coop/run. We call them the chickas because...
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    Sethanie says Hi!

    Hi all! I'm new to chicken keeping, though we did have a flock when I was a child and my parents had the farm. Now I have kids and my husband got 9 ameraucanas earlier this year. If I'm close in my age estimates, we might see eggs in August. So far it looks like we've got 3 hens and there is...
  6. Sethanie

    Lots of ameraucana males?

    No we got them at a poultry auction labeled as ameraucana pullets. Looking at pics online I estimated their general age at the time to be 5 weeks. I couldn't tell sex at the time but I understand experienced chicken keepers usually can pick males and females at that age. I suspect someone was...
  7. Sethanie

    Lots of ameraucana males?

    That's what I was thinking. I didn't try to get pics of the females just the males. Here are bad pics of what I think are females.
  8. Sethanie

    Lots of ameraucana males?

    I tried taking pics of all the ones developing the longer tails. Out of 9 I think we have 3 hens. Do any of the ones I show below look female at all? Longer tails+bigger combs=male, right?
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