Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[heatherscooby77]

I am wintering over all my chickens here, in Alaska, LOL.

The Ameraucana does so great in the climate, it is A LOT of work although. Grow out pens are doing awesome! I am so pleased with the birds I got this year and am looking forward to next years also! Looks like gold mining is happening this year, so I am in the process of an account to be able to show my birds outside of Alaska, within the next three years (how long it will take to convince my man) as he thinks it's crazy!

Already looking forward to purchasing more birds next year for my projects!

It has to be hard to winter them up there. Are Ameraucanas the only breed you have? Another cold hardy breed is Wyandottes. I have some of them too, they are having a hard time with the heat. I like the Silver Laced Variety, I love lacing period. I wish there were some SL AM!!! Maybe that will be a project for 10 years from now, I also like Mottled Black, and Blue. Maybe that can be for 20 years from now..................

 

[pips&peeps]

Heather,

I had one silver laced dotte with a single comb that I was going to use for a project and he died last weekend. The only one here that succumbed to the heat.......

There will be silver laced am's within the next five years!

 

[heatherscooby77]

Heather,

I had one silver laced dotte with a single comb that I was going to use for a project and he died last weekend. The only one here that succumbed to the heat.......

There will be silver laced am's within the next five years!

That is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just kept giving mine melon, cucumbers, squash, and frozen 2 L bottles to snuggle up to. I made 20 oz. for my broodies. They didn't mind sitting on the bottles, I don't keep eggs under them. I had a really nice Foley rooster, and he was horrible. Bloody legs almost every night, even with jeans on! I didn't want my daughter to get caught by him so I had to say goodbye.

 

[Arctic Chick]

It has to be hard to winter them up there. Are Ameraucanas the only breed you have? Another cold hardy breed is Wyandottes. I have some of them too, they are having a hard time with the heat. I like the Silver Laced Variety, I love lacing period. I wish there were some SL AM!!! Maybe that will be a project for 10 years from now, I also like Mottled Black, and Blue. Maybe that can be for 20 years from now..................

I have had many breeds of chickens here, but sadly many do not do well with the cold, long, dark winters.

Very expensive and time consuming! Not only that, many large and small wild predators roam everywhere (nothing like hungry bears, wolves and ermine) I have now built Chicken Fort Knox (again) and only have Ameraucana and EEs. Yes!! Wyandottes do very well here, as well as Chantecler and Orptingtons. I love Mottled birds!! Please send some of the heat our way! Been a cold "summer"! People do winter over Marans here and I have had and love Welsummers, but you have to "wax" the combs and wattles so they don't frost bite... ughg.. too much work. Yet more and more people are having chickens due to lifting city ordinances in Anchorage, Alaska. I live farther north and have no ordinances.

That puts me in dog team central, so when a dog comes in and steals a few I just build better enclosures and the team owners are very nice about helping out.

 

[Muggsmagee]

You cannot take the pictures from the ABC site and use them. They were given to the Club with permission.

My buffs are on there and I do not give anyone else permission to use the pics.

Oh, okay. I understand this. I thought he could take the shape and use the color references, since it won't be a literal duplication of the picture when it is formatted to a 3-D image...like creating a painting from a picture as reference. ???

 

[DMRippy]

Did you have to mention SL AMs????? I can do that...never thought about it. Straight combs are now KEEPERS.... I just culled a little roo today with a straight comb, he was just hatchery. BUT I have reg SLW and MAYBE I will get a straight comb to pop up again! That would be cool! Love that lacing! I have a penciled EE too.... hum.....

 

[ronott1]

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You need sweedish flower hens!

There was someone from Alaska on the Easter Hatch Thread that had them and they do very will up there. There is also another Icelandic breed that thrives and lays well in the cold north. They would die where I live since they can't take the heat. We had two days with highs of 107 here.

I lost a Marans Cockerel.

Ron

Ron

 

[pips&peeps]

Yes, breeding out a single comb is easier than a rose comb. If you go to the kip calculator you can see how many generations it will take to get back to the silver laced pattern.

I also want to use them to make laced blues. They won't be based on E (extended black), but they will be laced.....

 

[DMRippy]

Yes, breeding out a single comb is easier than a rose comb. If you go to the kip calculator you can see how many generations it will take to get back to the silver laced pattern.

I also want to use them to make laced blues. They won't be based on E (extended black), but they will be laced.....

I might can get a straight comb BLRW, that might be interesting. But I only have black Ams to work with. The yellow legs concern me. I know it is recessive, but just hate that green legs thing in my EE.... looks awful to me, just not my thing. I am sure that would be a LONG project, but might be fun. Projects might be what keeps me really interested in chicken genetics.

 

[LaLobaBlanca]

Hi everyone, I'd like some opinions on my Blue Wheaten and Splash Wheaten cockerels. I have some show quality BW pullets and need to decide if any of my males are good enough to breed with my pullets.

These are my 14 week old BW Ameraucana cockerels. There are two of them.





































Here is my Splash Wheaten Ameraucana cockerel. He is 14 weeks old.