Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[jajeanpierre]

Thanks everyone. I knew you people would know best. i can quit hoping. lol.
he is a Paul Smith bird. I had god cull all my birds for me. Since i didn't get the chance to do it myself it left me grasping at what my human desires wished i had left.

Mine is from Paul Smith as well. What pattern is your bird's toe punch?--maybe our two late-developing blue splash cockerels came from the same breeding pen! I've had bad luck with my Paul Smith birds as well. When I was away for three weeks, my 20-year old son was sloppy closing the pen and sloppy with monitoring the mini Dachshunds.... I lost three birds and two were pullets.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Mine is from Paul Smith as well. What pattern is your bird's toe punch?--maybe our two late-developing blue splash cockerels came from the same breeding pen! I've had bad luck with my Paul Smith birds as well. When I was away for three weeks, my 20-year old son was sloppy closing the pen and sloppy with monitoring the mini Dachshunds.... I lost three birds and two were pullets.

aww that sucks. I lost 30 of pauls birds and another 16 of my own to a coyote attack lead by the neighbors dog. I think mine is a +11 if i remember right . Ill have to look today to be sure.

 

[Angelicisi]

Paul Smith seems to make some amazing tasting birds sorry to hear of the losses.

 

[tec27]

This is more pics of my Ameraucana cockeral or pullet?

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Atchoum My bantam

They're both females.

 

[pips&peeps]

predators seem to know the best ones are the tastiest..............

 

[DaddyBird]

All right,I have a question for you Ameraucana buffs. My wife and I are new to chickens and know just enough to be dangerous. We had a dogtastrophy the other day resulting in a few new chickens. We got the one below from a small farm here locally but I think they simply buy hatching eggs from some larger hatcheries and then sell the birds. We bought it bexcause of the unique look and color since we didn't have anything like it. They called it a bantam Ameraucana. My questions are as follows: 1. How do you tell the difference between an Ameraucana andan Easter Egger? 2. What color would you call this? It looks like blue under buff. Is it a mutt? Thanks

 

[ChickNmamma]

All right,I have a question for you Ameraucana buffs. My wife and I are new to chickens and know just enough to be dangerous. We had a dogtastrophy the other day resulting in a few new chickens. We got the one below from a small farm here locally but I think they simply buy hatching eggs from some larger hatcheries and then sell the birds. We bought it bexcause of the unique look and color since we didn't have anything like it. They called it a bantam Ameraucana. My questions are as follows: 1. How do you tell the difference between an Ameraucana andan Easter Egger? 2. What color would you call this? It looks like blue under buff. Is it a mutt? Thanks

You guessed right - you have an Easter Egger. The easiest way is - is it an accepted color? If the answer is no - then you have an EE. Sometimes EEs have the correct colors, but green legs...

The EE don't really have "colors" like Ameraucanas - because they can be all mixed up and that's fine. Hopefully you 1) got a girl, and 2) get blue eggs.

I bought two "Bantam Americanas" from a hatchery, got two boys. One is my avitar picture - nothing like I expected except the green legs. The other one was black and white, until he got his red/gold colors. He was a splash. I gave him to my mother, but a skunk got him a week ago

 

[DaddyBird]

We aren't breeders so we really don't care what they are as long as we like them. I was more curious so that I describe it correctly if ever somebody asks. We have gotten birds from them before and everything they have ever sold us as a hen has actually been a hen so we'll keep those fingers crossed.

Thanks for the response.

 

[ChickNmamma]

We aren't breeders so we really don't care what they are as long as we like them. I was more curious so that I describe it correctly if ever somebody asks. We have gotten birds from them before and everything they have ever sold us as a hen has actually been a hen so we'll keep those fingers crossed.

Thanks for the response.

You can call it whatever color you like. Blue with a gold overlay sounds pretty.

It looks girlie to me.

You are welcome.

 

[jajeanpierre]

You guessed right - you have an Easter Egger. The easiest way is - is it an accepted color? If the answer is no - then you have an EE. Sometimes EEs have the correct colors, but green legs...

I don't know if that statement above is correct. I have a couple of splash Ameraucanas. Splash as far as I understand not an accepted color. They most certainly are Ameraucanas. I also have a lavender Ameraucana, again, not an accepted color.