Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Phage]

I assumed that Gabbard farms that sells a lot of eggs on Ebay, had fairly decent quality birds. I bought my very first lot of shipped eggs from them.
Do I have that completely wrong?

Then I saw this on their ebay auction

and felt they should know better and puts into doubt the quality of all their stock.


"Ameraucana/Araucanas have beards, muffs, and a normal tail with a tail head.
They are excellent producers of very large blue, green and pinkish brown eggs…lovely egg color from olive and aqua to sky blue and even blush pink! "Easter Eggers" as these hybrids have come to be known, are very gentle and will set on occasion. This breed lays approximately 80% blue and green eggs...20% pinkish brown eggs. A fun and amusing breed to own.
These chickens come in a wide variety of pleasing colors.
OUR LINES CARRY THE BLUE GENE!
Blue/Wheaten color variations are simply stunning and are highly likely with our line.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMERAUCANA-...ltDomain_0&hash=item45fdb92c6e#ht_4756wt_1398

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Don't bother! I have never had any eggs hatch from them. After repeated attempts to give them the benefit of the doubt, the best I got were exploding eggs. I had even asked them to pack the eggs differently, and they did not.

 

[cjwaldon]

Has anyone else gotten eggs from Gabbard Farms and can comment on hatchability? I have been watching their actions but now I have doubt . . .

 

[Phage]

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Well I had a great hatch, but that was 4 years ago, and I was very pleased with the experience and the birds. They were my first.
I can't comment on anything more recent.

 

[Ivywoods]

I have not ordered from them, but a friend of mine got eggs from theme several times and never did get any chicks to hatch. She was not happy with her experience with them.

 

[klf73]

I have had true ameraucana for 4 seasons now.... up until this year I have NEVER had a flock molt all at once. My black ameraucana girls(6, all Smith) have a California white hen with them. ALL of the black ameraucana girls stopped laying when I culled their roo. They looked horrible and no matter how nice or correct he was or how tight his comb was he was just overbreeding them horribly. They didn't have any beards or anything, he was the only one that even looked like an ameraucana

. After he was gone a week they dropped all their feathers and looked like they had mange. It has been over a month and at least 2 weeks since they looked fully feathered. When will they start laying again? Also, anyone know why the cali white didn't molt with them? Poor girl has a pretty bald head and her back is all broken feathers...
Eta- time frame could be off..time flies here

 

[Illia]

I thought all us Ameraucana people knew Gabbard Farms are not exactly truthful people when it comes to Am's? The least they could do is knock the Ameraucana/Araucana part and strictly call them EE's. They sound like McMurray.




Anyway, does anyone here know anyone who breeds, or you yourself personally breed, LF Brown-Reds? I believe there are only 2 or 3 breeders in the directory that actually ship anything, no one else is local, and I'm on the look for LF Brown-Reds for this spring.


Any Brown-Red people out there?

 

[Goose and Fig]

Supposedly there is somebody with Brown Reds in Soddy Daisy- about 1/2 hour from me. BUT- there is also a person there that sells EEs as ameraucanas. I will have to pay them a visit some time, maybe I could get some eggs to ship you. They are listed on the ABC site I think.....

On my way to KY! Nobody wanted any of my geese delivered on the way

 

[Illia]

Hey if anyone lives near James Fegan and can get me some of his stuff,

 

[fowlman01]

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Molting is based on a number of things. Climate, light and age being some of the main things. The Cali birds are from the other end of the US and maybe were hatched at a different time of the year. In any event....the colder it gets the quicker the molt finishes. Each bird has it's own molt "clock". There are ways to have the molt occur when you want it to, but it is a bit hard on the birds.

Walt