Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[chicken farmer2]

I am Finally Buying some more pullets at Ohio national to get my breeding pen together i only have a pair right now a blue cock and a black hen but im getting 2 blues and a splash! Is anyone else showing or going to try and buy anything at ohio national?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I am Finally Buying some more pullets at Ohio national to get my breeding pen together i only have a pair right now a blue cock and a black hen but im getting 2 blues and a splash! Is anyone else showing or going to try and buy anything at ohio national?

I will be showing and hopefully buying. And your post reminded me I wanted to post here and check with some breeders, so thank you.



I am looking for additional BBS Pullet or hens. I would buy in pairs and trios also. Let me know if you have anything.

 

[ChickenLeg]

Thanks for the feedback, I picked up 2 unrelated pairs at the ABC national meet in Lucasville, Ohio. I'm hoping to use them this spring, my white bantams and LF are priority, but I had to start somewhere with the BW bantam variety.

 

[chicken farmer2]

I will be showing and hopefully buying. And your post reminded me I wanted to post here and check with some breeders, so thank you.



I am looking for additional BBS Pullet or hens. I would buy in pairs and trios also. Let me know if you have anything.

Do you know or anybody know, if theyre going to have a ameraucana booth set up and are they going to sell anything like the egg color charts?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Do you know or anybody know, if theyre going to have a ameraucana booth set up and are they going to sell anything like the egg color charts?

I don't know. This will be my first year going to this show and nobody has told me about anything like that.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I don't know. This will be my first year going to this show and nobody has told me about anything like that.

I think the Eastern District is suppose to be having a meet. I might have the wrong district, so don't quote me on that.

 

[UrbanFarmOC]

My experience has also been that the overly friendly, "in your face" chicks are cockerels until my latest bunch of chicks.  I have two splash pullets that will jump up in my face if I bend over to look in their pen.  They were hatched and raised by a broody Ameraucana, so I don't know if their overly inquisitive demeanor is the result of normal socialization from before hatch to "weaning."  Incubator hatched/brooder raised chicks are not raised normally, so I would expect some differences in their personalities.

Prepare yourself for this chick being a cockerel, but you can still hope it's a pullet.

I would suggest you not allow this bird anywhere near your face.  Chickens peck at a lot of things, and you risk eye damage from a chicken.  They are not parrots, that might bite you.  Chickens peck and a peck from a chicken has a lot of force behind it--you risk having your eye basically stabbed.  They are very fast and you won't be able to protect yourself.  If you have ever seen what a chicken is capable of doing to a snake, you will know your eye is no match for a chicken, even a small chicken.

Yeah. I keep reminding myself that most people say the friendly ones are Roos. However, I'm hopeful because a Faverolles chick I got turned out to be a roo and he is not bold. He's the chickenest of the chicks, but maybe that's just the timid Fav in him.

Being careful of eye pecks is a good reminder. I'm glad I wear glasses because they have gotten close!

 

[UrbanFarmOC]

Some pics of my 2 blue wheaten bantam trios, one trio will be 2 years old in the spring, the other trio will be 1 year old. Each trio has a BW male, a BW female, and a W female.

Gorgeous!!

 

[Penny Hen]

Yeah. I keep reminding myself that most people say the friendly ones are Roos. However, I'm hopeful because a Faverolles chick I got turned out to be a roo and he is not bold. He's the chickenest of the chicks, but maybe that's just the timid Fav in him.

Being careful of eye pecks is a good reminder. I'm glad I wear glasses because they have gotten close!

Had that happen last year. Funny thing was when it healed my vision was improved slightly! Chicken Lasic!

I was so lucky. Hurt like an )*$$&^&$(.

 

[UrbanFarmOC]

Had that happen last year. Funny thing was when it healed my vision was improved slightly! Chicken Lasic! I was so lucky. Hurt like an )*$$&^&$(.

Ouch, but I guess you also saved a couple grand with chicken LASIK! Heehee