Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[jeremy]

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He is an Easter Egger.

 

[SD_Paulo]

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Still a cool looking rooster! I think some EE's (aka. Mutts) make the coolest looking dudes. I kept a EE accident Roo (EE x BLRW) because he was so cool looking. He is 10mnths old, is already taller than his Wynadotte Father, has muffs, a lace pattern chest and is really putting on the Wynadotte bulk. Anyways, he is in with the mix breed flock.

 

[jeremy]

This is one of the Blue Wheaten pullets I kept for breeding next year.

I also kept Periwinkle, my jungle chicken, because I love her beard. (& personality!

)

 

[Mahonri]

Just my opinion of course, but I think that son of Geoffrey's is GORGEOUS!... even better looking than his daddy!

Jeremy, love your hens!

I have a broody one that looks a lot like your blue wheaten.

I only have 7 wheatie hens at present, Jennie, Jena, Jean (guess where I got that name), Autumn, Astrid (both from Meredith), Melissa and April (Pasofino stock)... I also have a juvie I haven't named yet. 2 splash 2 BW and 4 wheaten.

Junior (another of Geoffrey's sons just started to crow this morning so I've got to get him to the vet to get him decrowed... wish he looked as good as his brother in San Dieggo!... still nice though and with the hens I kept, I should get some lookers if he ever gets his act together and starts fertilizing eggs.

 

[jeremy]

Mahonri, how does a vet decrow a rooster?

If we don't get our city's noise ordinance changed I might look into the procedure myself...

 

[kathyinmo]

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I googled it to find out, and found these quotes:

While this sounds like a great idea, it is not a simple procedure. Dr. Bernard Wentworth, emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin, agrees. He tried some of these surgeries many years ago. The muscles that allow the syrinx to contract need to be cut. The syrinx is located at the very bottom of the trachea, where it splits and enters the lungs, so it is not easy to get to these muscles. "It's a difficult and risky surgical procedure, since you're close to some very important blood vessels," Wentworth says.

Before I went on the quest for a quiet rooster, I looked into the devoicing procedure. We have several avian specialists in the area; I found a chap who works for one of the local zoos who was familiar with the procedure, but had not himself performed it. It seems that the surgery (never common) was most usually performed on peacocks. The survival rate is reportedly low – and ‘relapses’ common enough. The price was about $500 several years ago, so higher now. I was told that for a barnyard fowl it was ridiculously expensive, and for a valuable pedigreed bird too risky, given the mortality rate – and even if the bird survived it once, it might not be lucky a second time, in the event of a relapse.

My son-in-law tells me birds are very difficult to anesthetize, the survival rate is not good. He says he would never perform such a procedure ,even if it was legal,which it isn't in the UK,EU,Australia or NZ,because he considers it too risky ,and unethical.​

 

[jeremy]

Nothing is ever easy (or cheap) is it?
I guess roosters were just meant to crow!

 

[draye]

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Still a cool looking rooster! I think some EE's (aka. Mutts) make the coolest looking dudes. I kept a EE accident Roo (EE x BLRW) because he was so cool looking. He is 10mnths old, is already taller than his Wynadotte Father, has muffs, a lace pattern chest and is really putting on the Wynadotte bulk. Anyways, he is in with the mix breed flock.

Now you gotta post some pictures!

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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CONGRATULATIONS!

I'm so happy for you!

Woke up to another blue this morning so we're up to 5 now!!!!

 

[La Mike]

Just had to post a pic of my new BW Roo

and a couple of his girls.