Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[NotAFarm]

Illia, Love the new avatar!! Just beautiful!!

I hatched some of Cindy's eggs in June. Got a pair of splits and one lav chick that I helped but didn't make it. I gave them to my chicken buddy who does chicken chores for me when I'm out of town. She named them Betsy and Ross, appropriate she thought for Ameraucanas! I hope they produce some lav chicks next spring so she can share some back with me!! I don't have the set-up for all the birds I'd love to have, so I lurk here and enable others when I can!!!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Periwinkle has AMAZING muffs and beard!

 

[NoisyCricket]

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He is beautiful

If you don't mind a few questions from someone new to all this...
If I understand correctly, a split is when you cross two colors. What two colors is he a split of? What color hen would you use him on?

A split is a bird carrying a recessive gene but because they only have one, they do not show it.

So black x lavender = Lav splits.

Buff x Silver = not splits

Just mutts.

Thank you. It is starting to make sense.

 

[chickendales]

what would u say was better a large fowl bird that over or under the standard weight

 

[pips&peeps]

over, once you loose size, it's so hard to get it back

 

[chickendales]

pips&peeps :

over, once you loose size, it's so hard to get it back

thanks that what i thought​

 

[Illia]

pips&peeps :

over, once you loose size, it's so hard to get it back

x2

Plus I prefer eating bigger culls than small ones

 

[Goose and Fig]

Guess what I've got!!!!

A broody lavender! In November. When it gets dark at 4:45 and its 30 degrees at night. Am I surprised? Not really.

 

[Illia]

If they aren't molting, they're broody for me at this time of year.

Broody season is mid summer til late fall, but, our fall and winter out here are basically a secondary spring. Extra rain, slightly lower temps but hardly freezing, and less sun.

 

[Cynthia12]

Finally! I got my first blue egg from my blue girl yesterday, and she did it again today. I think she's got the hang of it. Pretty egg. Small for now, but I'm sure it will get larger. Good girl!
Back from surgery for 2 weeks now..what a process~this healing thing when you've had numbers C 5,6, and 7 discs done. I can go out and check for eggs though.

DH cleaned the coop, and the nursery hutch for me today. He's been so good to help. And, I love seeing him talking to the girls..now that is something to see, because he didn't use to have much to do with them, now when one squats, he gives her a pat on the back, or, he actually picks her up! I just stand there and chuckle from indoors.

He comes in and tells me that he gave them some scratch. Or, they needed water so he filled up alll the containers I have out for them. Or, he calls me to the door to check out this or that when they come up to the porch. Now he knows, now he knows.