Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[chicknadventure]

I have heard a lot about how ameraucanas are flighty as babies. How do you socialize your young cbirds to help them be less fear ful and dare i say friendly?

I have also heard that some colors aee more flighty than others. I have 3a lavs and one vlue and am hatching out 5 black.

Also welcome tolip! Even though i know your expectatiins and excitement were dashed a bit i will tell you that as long as you sont call an ee an ameraucana, this is one of the friendliest threads and groups on byc so welcome and hopefully with a little help you will soon have some lovely blue egg layers sokn.

 

[DMRippy]

I have heard a lot about how ameraucanas are flighty as babies. How do you socialize your young cbirds to help them be less fear ful and dare i say friendly?

I have also heard that some colors aee more flighty than others. I have 3a lavs and one vlue and am hatching out 5 black.

Also welcome tolip! Even though i know your expectatiins and excitement were dashed a bit i will tell you that as long as you sont call an ee an ameraucana, this is one of the friendliest threads and groups on byc

so welcome and hopefully with a little help you will soon have some lovely blue egg layers sokn.

Did you type all that on your phone?

I hate that about my phone.... fills in places I didn't want filled in.

I don't find my Ameraucanas, Lavs/splits blacks or Wheatens to be flighty.... no more so than any other. My guinea..... those are FLIGHTY!

I can pick up my Lavs and wheatens and white Leghorns.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Don't I feel stupid!

Don't feel stupid! There is a lot of misinformation about EE vs Ameraucana out there. Some of the deception is deliberate, people knowingly sell you a bird and tell you it is a purebred Ameraucana when they know full well it isn't. But honestly, I think that most of the deception is an honest mistake caused by hatcheries using a less than appropriate label for the chicks they sell. Hatcheries sell their EE as "Ameraucana," so that's what the person selling the chicks at the feed store tells you they are (because that's what they think they are). Someone buys "Ameraucana" from a feed store or hatchery believing that the chicks are labeled correctly and ends up with a rooster and decides to breed their "Ameraucana" and sell the chicks as such, because that's what they've been told they have that's what they tell you you're buying. In the end, most of the people on this thread don't have a problem with EE themselves, just with people misrepresenting EE as Ameraucana when they are not really the same thing. Between the two, I have to admit I prefer my EE. She is a calmer bird and one of the best layers I have. My Ameraucana is bred to standard, a good layer (although her eggs are the same color green as my EE, but that's my own fault for not asking the right questions before buying her) but has a much more flighty personality. In spite of her Chicken-Little attitude (the sky is falling!) about pretty much everything, she did turn out to be a fantastically dedicated broody in spite of our frequent intrusions to pull out infertile eggs and check on the progress of the eggs she was sitting on. She's also the first to notice hawks when they fly over the neighborhood.

 

[Tumbleweed Farm]

I think many of us got duped into the Ameraucana's being EE when we first started out, I have learned a tremendous amount of good information thanks to my Great BYC neighbors!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Don't I feel stupid!

I started with easter eggers. they are great birds. now if you add a few true's in there when you start getting eggs you will probably have some pretty eggs that look somewhat different.
I have easter eggers , true Ameraucana's and Olive eggers (2 kinds of these.) can not wait to see what all the eggs look like. only the easter eggers are laying now. one is green and one is blue. my first run of olive eggers should start laying in another month. ameraucana's probably 2-3

 

[Sprinkles212]

My Ameraucana chicks are extremely unfriendly and act like such spazzes that they freak out the other, more calm birds. I have 15 beautiful blue and black Ameraucanas but I'm thinking about rehoming them. I did not realize they would be so unfriendly. Our white leghorns are super friendly and I've heard they are flighty. Not so from our experience.

 

[Ksane]

I hatched out 3 Brown Red & 2 White Bantam Ameraucana from Jerry Segler 11 days ago, I've seen him post a time or 2 on the board. I don't know if it's perhaps different lines of birds? Or Bantam vs LF? But these 5 are hands down the friendliest and most lovey chicks I've ever had, including my LF Cochins believe it or not. Every day I wake up and can't wait to go see them because they shoot like little missiles down to the end of the brooder wanting to see me. They hear a human voice and they're beside themselves with joy Do some of you have Bantams to compare to? I've got some LF Lavenders and a Black Ameraucana that aren't anywhere near this friendly, they act like I didn't even raise them sometimes. I love these babies.

 

[Reyvaughn]

My OEGB hen is like that. So are my bantam chocolate Orp cockerels.

 

[Zanna]

Ok Jean, Walt, and anyone else, I hope these pics are what you wanted to see.......... For any of you wondering why the heck I am posting pics of my young Dels on this thread, I am having feather quality issues and a few of the very helpfull experienced folks on this thread are giving me advise. The Delaware thread could not get past that it is just old worn out feathers but the parents are passing this on to the offspring so that is not the case.......... These pics are all the same little guy, he is 10 weeks old and because of the white legs will not be used in my breeding program anyways but these feathers????

 

[buckabucka]

My Ameraucana chicks are extremely unfriendly and act like such spazzes that they freak out the other, more calm birds. I have 15 beautiful blue and black Ameraucanas but I'm thinking about rehoming them. I did not realize they would be so unfriendly. Our white leghorns are super friendly and I've heard they are flighty. Not so from our experience.

I think different breeds lean toward friendliness, but each bird is an individual and doesn't always follow the trend. And I think friendliness can rub off, to an extent. I am raising some EO Basque, which are known for friendliness, with some other mixed chicks. This flock seems calmer, generally speaking, to others I have raised, and they all try to follow me out the door.