Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[steph0601]

 

[jajeanpierre]

Like this one???? I use these and LOVE them.

Yes, that's the kind of thing I want. Thanks!

 

[Schroeder]

I'm having a serious deer problem. I never in my life thought I could wish ill on something as cute as a deer, but they are tearing things down to get at my feed. They are dangerous, too. My neighbor, bless their hearts, have a deer feeder set up about 100 feet from my chicken pens. There is a severe deer overpopulation, so they are all drawn to my neighbor's feeder and hang out in my yard. One doe and her sidekick are not afraid and are quite aggressive. I want to make it impossible for her to eat my chicken feed so she isn't hanging around my house so much. I saw a design on BYC for a feed bucket where someone used plastic plumbing elbows to make a feeder where the chickens had to put their head into this elbow to get the food in the bucket. They had to reach in far enough that there wasn't any waste. It might work for the deer during the day and then I'll just hoist it up in a tree at night.


Does anyone have a link to those plans?

Here is the link.https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-gallon-25-feed-bucket-feeder-for-about-3/240

 

[TherryChicken]

lice or  mites? change in housing? moving of chickens? extreme heat. this can all make them stop laying

I know but I dont think its none of them. Maybe the heat, but they have been treated for all of that. They are also in shade.

 

[JekkaLynn]

What color would you call this chick?

And am I right that he is a roo?

His tail and comb are completely different from my other straight Ameruacana chick and from the 3/4 Ameruacana chicks I have.

 

[jonsccm]

What color would you call this chick?

And am I right that he is a roo?

His tail and comb are completely different from my other straight Ameruacana chick and from the 3/4 Ameruacana chicks I have.

That looks like a splash. I don't think it's a recognized variety. If you breed it with a black you will get 100% blue. Blue is an recognized varity.

 

[jonsccm]

I don't think it's a rooster but your black one behind her is. How old are they?

 

[JekkaLynn]

I don't think it's a rooster but your black one behind her is. How old are they?

They are farely young and have peacombs. The one behind is a Black Copper Maran roo.

 

[JekkaLynn]

Here is a better picture of his face and very pink comb and here is a picture of his girlfriends face.

 

[TheGeekySheep]

My ladies turned 1 year old this week, and one of them has gone broody for the first time. She's been sitting about a week so I'll put some fertile hatching eggs under her this weekend (including some lavender am's!) and see if she'll hatch me some chicks.

I hope she'll be a good mama, she just about took my hand off trying to move the carpet under her and lay down shavings. (I have roll-out nest boxes, so I had to fix it so her eggs wouldn't just roll away.)