Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Indigosands]

Hi all! I have a question if you don't mind, I only have a few purebred AM and I have not had them very long. I have one Lavender AM chick (Alice) that is 10 wks old. Still very tiny, and she has no tail feathers. None. Not a nubbin, no pinfeathers, nothing. Are Lavenders slow to feather in? She wasn't plucked, I'm certain of it. She's never grown them in. You can see in these photos from a couple wks ago that she has some cushion feathers but no real tail. There's been no change.

 

[SalinasChicken]

Hi all! I have a question if you don't mind, I only have a few purebred AM and I have not had them very long. I have one Lavender AM chick (Alice) that is 10 wks old. Still very tiny, and she has no tail feathers. None. Not a nubbin, no pinfeathers, nothing. Are Lavenders slow to feather in? She wasn't plucked, I'm certain of it. She's never grown them in. You can see in these photos from a couple wks ago that she has some cushion feathers but no real tail. There's been no change.

Hi! Lovely lavender! I have 6 juvenile lavenders (& 5 babies that just hatched Wednesday). In my experience, this is very normal and has ended up being a female trait. That is MY experience, and may not be the norm. The ones I have that grew tail feathers the fastest are all boys. Try asking over on the lavender AM thread, more people might know over there.

 

[Indigosands]

Thank you! I had hoped this was just a slow to start thing and that she wouldn't be tail-less forever. LOL I hope it was ok for me to post here, I used the search to look for a lavender owner's thread but could only find a breeder's thread.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Hey, all--sorry to bother everyone, but I'm getting a bit desperate. I'm looking for some Ameraucana eggs to stick under my favorite broody, so I need to find them fast as I don't want her to sit longer than necessary--she doesn't feed herself well when she sits. I've posted under BST but haven't had replies.

Looking for nice blue eggs from parents that are good layers of decent size eggs and homozygous for the blue egg gene. Don't care about bird color, so birds from color breeding projects are OK.

If you have any to sell, PM me, please!

Many thanks!

EDITED TO ADD: Thanks everyone for the wonderful response! I received many replies almost as soon as I posted this, and just sent payment. I appreciate each and every one of you. BYC people rock!

 

[pickitfarm]

We might be needing some Ameraucanas ourselves in the near future. The ones we have in the incubator was due to hatch today but nothing....no pips, zips or noise.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

We might be needing some Ameraucanas ourselves in the near future. The ones we have in the incubator was due to hatch today but nothing....no pips, zips or noise.

Maybe they are just late hatchers. Are they shipped eggs?I have some ameraucana eggs that were shipped and hatched 3 days late.

 

[FFAChickenFan]

We might be needing some Ameraucanas ourselves in the near future. The ones we have in the incubator was due to hatch today but nothing....no pips, zips or noise.

I'm in the same boat. Day 25 and only one chick, five days ago. The only thing to do is try again and keep your hopes up!
Hope you get another batch and have better results- I'll be waiting on pins and needles with you!

 

[dak]

Maybe they are just late hatchers. Are they shipped eggs?I have some ameraucana eggs that were shipped and hatched 3 days late.

Length of incubation is related to the temperature the eggs are incubated at. If your eggs are hatching late, your incubator is likely running a little cool.

 

[pickitfarm]

Maybe they are just late hatchers. Are they shipped eggs?I have some ameraucana eggs that were shipped and hatched 3 days late.

These were shipped locally, got to us overnight. They came from a breeder a little over an hour away that would not allow us to pick them up like the Rhodebar eggs we got in April. We hatched 8 out of 12 of those. They do not allow other flock owners around their birds.

Love your name - that is what my husband does when he calls his black cochin bantam roos. They get so excited when he does it.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Length of incubation is related to the temperature the eggs are incubated at. If your eggs are hatching late, your incubator is likely running a little cool.

Well the hatches before that and the hatches after it were right on time. I hardly every have to adjust my temp either. I tis always right at 99.5 f unless I open it to flip eggs or candle. It was also a bad hatch the eggs came all the way from california. But I had some barnyard mix eggs from my coop that i threw in there the same day and they hatched on time.