Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds
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I need help identifying a chick color please.
The lone baby that hatched from the abandoned broody eggs is marked like black babies are marked (white underbelly) plus has some white marks around the eyes. The feathers look blue-ish though. Could it just be a dark splash? The feet look more like splash legs in that they are sort of mottled and not necessarily solid. This baby came from my BBS pen with a blue rooster (Gardner line) and blue or black pullet (Pips and Peeps line). It just looks a lot darker than the other splashes I have hatched out. I'll try to get pictures tomorrow. Can you have a dark blue splash?
Also, I moved the baby from the bator into the brooder with 2.5 week old barred rock chicks and almost 2 week old EE & ameraucana chicks. This baby looks like David in a pen of Goliaths! I had her blocked off in a seperate little wire pen, but Screamy didn't like it. I have moved her wire pen and she is now just in with everyone else. They are ignoring her. She is toddling about in the midst of the chaos seemingly happy as she can be. My worry is that they are all HUGE compared to her tiny little self. She keeps getting shoved aside when the others gallop by. Should I seperate her even though it makes her scream like a banshee and try to fight her way thorugh the wire basket? I don't want her to be hurt, but she seems a LOT happier just milling about with the others. I've been sitting at the brooder for about an hour just watching her and so far all in well with the masses. What do y'all think?
The lone baby that hatched from the abandoned broody eggs is marked like black babies are marked (white underbelly) plus has some white marks around the eyes. The feathers look blue-ish though. Could it just be a dark splash? The feet look more like splash legs in that they are sort of mottled and not necessarily solid. This baby came from my BBS pen with a blue rooster (Gardner line) and blue or black pullet (Pips and Peeps line). It just looks a lot darker than the other splashes I have hatched out. I'll try to get pictures tomorrow. Can you have a dark blue splash?
Also, I moved the baby from the bator into the brooder with 2.5 week old barred rock chicks and almost 2 week old EE & ameraucana chicks. This baby looks like David in a pen of Goliaths! I had her blocked off in a seperate little wire pen, but Screamy didn't like it. I have moved her wire pen and she is now just in with everyone else. They are ignoring her. She is toddling about in the midst of the chaos seemingly happy as she can be. My worry is that they are all HUGE compared to her tiny little self. She keeps getting shoved aside when the others gallop by. Should I seperate her even though it makes her scream like a banshee and try to fight her way thorugh the wire basket? I don't want her to be hurt, but she seems a LOT happier just milling about with the others. I've been sitting at the brooder for about an hour just watching her and so far all in well with the masses. What do y'all think?
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I've watched mine get picked when they have ice or water droplets on the beard feathers from drinking. I've found that pens that have the birds locked in, have more of this problem than those where they can get out at sunrise. If mine can get through winter without this, then they are usually good looking the rest of the year.
Not much ice here in Florida, I think I should quit feeding them yogurt though
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Funny you should comment ...I've identified the beard muncher to be a beautiful Welsummer girl that I hatched from your gorgeous stock
. I'd put two of them in the Ameraucana pen to make olive eggers.
I deduced the beard picker by observing who roosts next to who and was missing chunks of beard on one side the next morning. Opie looks like a naked neck now, Ranger has half a beard.
That Wellie likes her bedtime snack...
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Since I have their eggs developing in the bator, I've moved the Wellies to make room for the chicks under broodies due Thursday, maybe their beards will grow back in the meantime.
I now have a Wheaten and a Blue Wheaten sitting on about 10 eggs between them, and the BCM (another olive egg project) seems to have gone broody as well. She hasn't left the nest in two days.
I haven't given her any eggs as my bator is in lockdown and the other two girls seem to be as well...doesn't seem right to sneak eggs from them at this point. Then my remaining girl Sophie.
a Blue Wheaten, in the last 24 hours, has been screaching, puffing up, and staring down the other girls who are now occupying all three nest boxes. Seems broodiness is contagious and my Ameraucana pen
is full of raging female hormones. Ranger the roo is just pacing up and down the pen, like any good expectant father.
Any advice from anyone as to how the "late to the party" girls will handle the arrival of the chicks of the other girls? I can give them eggs to sit on after I move the mamas and babies downstairs,
but will all the adults and babies, three weeks apart, get along? I really can't ask DH to build another pen.
Another in the continuing saga of "How the Egg Turns"
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I've watched mine get picked when they have ice or water droplets on the beard feathers from drinking. I've found that pens that have the birds locked in, have more of this problem than those where they can get out at sunrise. If mine can get through winter without this, then they are usually good looking the rest of the year.
Not much ice here in Florida, I think I should quit feeding them yogurt though
Funny you should comment ...I've identified the beard muncher to be a beautiful Welsummer girl that I hatched from your gorgeous stock
I deduced the beard picker by observing who roosts next to who and was missing chunks of beard on one side the next morning. Opie looks like a naked neck now, Ranger has half a beard.
That Wellie likes her bedtime snack...
Since I have their eggs developing in the bator, I've moved the Wellies to make room for the chicks under broodies due Thursday, maybe their beards will grow back in the meantime.
I now have a Wheaten and a Blue Wheaten sitting on about 10 eggs between them, and the BCM (another olive egg project) seems to have gone broody as well. She hasn't left the nest in two days.
I haven't given her any eggs as my bator is in lockdown and the other two girls seem to be as well...doesn't seem right to sneak eggs from them at this point. Then my remaining girl Sophie.
a Blue Wheaten, in the last 24 hours, has been screaching, puffing up, and staring down the other girls who are now occupying all three nest boxes. Seems broodiness is contagious and my Ameraucana pen
is full of raging female hormones. Ranger the roo is just pacing up and down the pen, like any good expectant father.
Any advice from anyone as to how the "late to the party" girls will handle the arrival of the chicks of the other girls? I can give them eggs to sit on after I move the mamas and babies downstairs,
but will all the adults and babies, three weeks apart, get along? I really can't ask DH to build another pen.
Another in the continuing saga of "How the Egg Turns"
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With so many pages in this thread I didn't read thru everything, so I apologize if my question has been asked and discussed. My question is in regards to the personality of the Ameraucana. I have 2 younger EE's that were born this last Xmas, and I wonder if there is a big personality difference between EE's & Ameraucana? I have to admit, I find the EE to be pretty stand offish, flighty, and not so friendly, not sure if it's because they are still young, or if this is typical? They were raised here in my home with plenty of attention, they are now living outside and free range on nice days in my small backyard. I now have Ameraucana in the incubator because I want a pure bird, not an EE mix. So I am wondering if ameraucana are as standoffish & flighty as the EE. I realize the difference between the two, figured I'd come here and ask the experts. I know each chicken has it's own personality, but I'd like to know what is typical of the breed? Thanks in Advance.
ok, been a while since I have been here and now that I am back I am trying to catch up. I saw a thread about ameraucana projects that got closed due to the same ol fight about EE's and Ameraucana. I didn't read this whole thread but was curious if anyone was working on any new colors/varieties to try to eventually get accepted(other than lavender)? Was curious if anyone was working on something that I was going to attempt....
Went out to the bantam coop this morning, and had to laugh...one of my bantam Ameraucanas kicked my silkie off her nest and was setting on her own eggs! I didn't think ANYTHING could get a silkie off a nest...I was wrong!!
My DD was set on using our one Amer Roo for showmanship. He is a lap chicken. I made her use a Silkie we werent even going to take, and he won Reserve Feather Legged Bantam.
She got First for Showmanship, probably use the Amer Roo next time, anyway.
Our EEs are pretty friendly, but they get loved on alot by the kids.
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She got First for Showmanship, probably use the Amer Roo next time, anyway.
Our EEs are pretty friendly, but they get loved on alot by the kids.
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