Lucky you!! You should not have any problem downsizing.
You can get a SOP from the American Poultry Assoc. websiteand look at the pics on the Ameraucana Breeders Club website if you haven't already for some ideas on
a better quality bird. Look for full muffs and beards, slate legs, brownish red eyes, red earlobes. Cull any birds with red/brown leaking through blue or black feathers, same with darker feathers
on blue or white wing feathers. Peacomb should be medium, not flat and not a crest. All blues are pretty. Most seem to think ideal blue is a medium, lacing a must.
Cull any that dont lay blue eggs if you keep them that long. I think you should try and find a "rounder" bird, and medium sized. Some of mine are small, I feel, which equals smaller eggs.
Ok, that's starters.
As for sexing, its tough. Look for the feathers, look at the combs. The boys will be pinker and three rows of peas, pullets one row.
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You can get a SOP from the American Poultry Assoc. websiteand look at the pics on the Ameraucana Breeders Club website if you haven't already for some ideas on
a better quality bird. Look for full muffs and beards, slate legs, brownish red eyes, red earlobes. Cull any birds with red/brown leaking through blue or black feathers, same with darker feathers
on blue or white wing feathers. Peacomb should be medium, not flat and not a crest. All blues are pretty. Most seem to think ideal blue is a medium, lacing a must.
Cull any that dont lay blue eggs if you keep them that long. I think you should try and find a "rounder" bird, and medium sized. Some of mine are small, I feel, which equals smaller eggs.
Ok, that's starters.
As for sexing, its tough. Look for the feathers, look at the combs. The boys will be pinker and three rows of peas, pullets one row.
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