Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[chickobsessed]

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This is one of my Ameracauna chicks I got at the sussex County show. I'm hoping she is show quality. She is now 4 weeks old. What do you all think?

 

[pips&peeps]

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This is one of my Ameracauna chicks I got at the sussex County show. I'm hoping she is show quality. She is now 4 weeks old. What do you all think?

Looks like a cockerel to me.

 

[horsnsport]

Pretty!

 

[kaybee123]

What is the average age an Ameraucana roo is able to fertilize eggs? I saw my 3 month old roo mounting my girls for the first time today . . . awkwardly, I might add.

He has not crowed or made any crow like attempts either. Do Ameraucanas start later?

 

[jerryse]

What is the average age an Ameraucana roo is able to fertilize eggs? I saw my 3 month old roo mounting my girls for the first time today . . . awkwardly, I might add.

He has not crowed or made any crow like attempts either. Do Ameraucanas start later?

If he is mounting the hens he is most likely fertile.Crowing or not.I got fertility at 4 months on a LF cockerel last year.Saw him mounting hens and set up a breeding with him.Some crow at a young age some much later.

 

[kaybee123]

I'm not allowed to have a roo in the city but have been keeping him until he crows and I can't hide him. So if he never crows, I'm okay w that because I've become fond of him. He'll go to my mom's home and
become a country roo when he does. . But it would be fun to get some off spring from him before he goes.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

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This is one of my Ameracauna chicks I got at the sussex County show. I'm hoping she is show quality. She is now 4 weeks old. What do you all think?

That's an awefully wide comb and dark coloring for a pullet. Pretty sure you've got a cockerel. Pretty hard to tell quality show-wise at that age, wait until he's at least 16 or 20 weeks old and post another picture!

 

[kaybee123]

If he is mounting the hens he is most likely fertile.Crowing or not.I got fertility at 4 months on a LF cockerel last year.Saw him mounting hens and set up a breeding with him.Some crow at a young age some much later.

Jerry! I cracked some eggs open for dinner tonight and two out of three had the donut rings and one just had the white dot!!! I'm incubating some shipped eggs so I'm going to throw a couple in tomorrow and see what happens. I'm so excited, these were chicks from my very first hatch! Sniff! sniff! My feather babies have grown up!

 

[jerryse]

Jerry! I cracked some eggs open for dinner tonight and two out of three had the donut rings and one just had the white dot!!! I'm incubating some shipped eggs so I'm going to throw a couple in tomorrow and see what happens. I'm so excited, these were chicks from my very first hatch! Sniff! sniff! My feather babies have grown up!

Congratulations on fertility.You can get some chicks before his crowing makes him have to move.

 

[Nicole01]

Do you think this chick is male or female?

It's a blue wheaten. This chick is the size of the other females

Here's it's brother a blue wheaten

And it's wheaten brother

Thank you