Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[halo]

Actually, I think they thought they had hatched on the playground! They had their own Jungle Gym.

 

[klf73]

pips&peeps :

were they yelling "weeeeeeeee"

 

[chicken+quail=luv]

i guess i'll ask you guys, since this is the ameraucana thread...

what's the difference between EEs and Ameraucanas?

 

[klf73]

*chicken+quail=luv* :

i guess i'll ask you guys, since this is the ameraucana thread...

what's the difference between EEs and Ameraucanas?

go read this thread, I think it should answer your question

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=128806​

 

[SunnyDawn]

My chicks from John Blehm just shipped!!! I just got the email and I'm so excited!!!

 

[klf73]

yeah

 

[klf73]

I just found out I had a broody

. She hid the nest and we can't get to it to put her somewhere safer so she is camped out under our wooden screen house. Not much clearance for anything to get her but we are boxing it in. I am sooo bummed as she is an araucana and I was just setting up a breeding pen to put her with my triple tufted/rumpless lav split roo. Instead she will have chicks with my blue wheaten ameraucana roo, should be interesting chicks....muffed/bearded and rumpless

(possibly). If I had known she was going to go broody I would have put some of these pure ameraucana eggs under her, less mess in my brooder

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Oh- I'd love to do that someday. The ultimate EEs! I think I have a another broody now too. She's been on the nest all day with eggs from our wheaten roo over various big girls. I might sneak some more wellie & olive egger eggs in there if she stays put.

 

[NateDomRIR]

Oh- I'd love to do that someday. The ultimate EEs! I think I have a another broody now too. She's been on the nest all day with eggs from our wheaten roo over various big girls. I might sneak some more wellie & olive egger eggs in there if she stays put.

Last year I bought some EE green hatching eggs. Later i found out that the Lady had a Araucana cock with her EEs. Out of those eggs I hatched a black bi-latertally tufted/tailed pullet and a blue clean faced/rumpless pullets. I recently bought a bilaterally tufted/rumpless Splash cock for them. They are not laying and almost 7 months old. For the past month I had a couple of EE hens in with them and took them out the other day. Now the cock is interested in my two pullets but they are not into him.

Maybe I will hatch out some more tufted/rumpless EEs.

I have 10 Araucana chicks on order that'll be here next month hopefully.​

 

[HBuehler]

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I'm SOOO glad I'm not the only one that has done that..recently I thought I had all of my chicks in lockdown that needed to be there..that was until I kept hearing a peeping chick and they were all sleeping...checked those chicks several times and every time they were flat sleeping

a while later went to a bator beside them opened it up and got the begeebers scared out of me when a chick popped up in the middle of the turners(old style) and to think he was even on a middle rack had enough smarts to climb over the other racks and get to the middle out of the way.Hatched and dried in 30% humidity no lockdown no closed bators no fuss no worry.
Jeans babies are doing super...beautiful and growing very well.I know a thread isn't good without pictures but gosh life is a zoo right now.coming soon though-they are still adorable.