Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[newlinta]

Anyone have bantam blue wheaten/wheaten or lavender eggs available at the moment? Looking for some for a Christmas present that would need to be shipped Monday.
Please let me know(PM me).
Thanks!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I have no idea. :| I have been trying to contact dozens of breeders looking for standard wheaten/BW eggs and nobody's gotten back to me. I'm feeling really frustrated about it.

 

[scflock]

Anyone have bantam blue wheaten/wheaten or lavender eggs available at the moment? Looking for some for a Christmas present that would need to be shipped Monday.
Please let me know(PM me).
Thanks!

Go to the Ameraucana Breeders Club site and search breeders by state. It will list who they are and what they sell. Many will ship

 

[bruceha2000]

Marchick, I am hatching in an incubator. I've left it at whatever the air's humidity was until lockdown every time. I will try increasing humidity. And that is possible, though the eggs I got that he hatched from were pretty normal sized seeming. The shipping on those eggs was somewhat sub par. I got 3/8 eggs hatched, and two got eaten by a coon a month after I moved them outside. He was what was left. :T He's a great roo temperament wise. He never bothers me, even if I handle the hens and is VERY alert to hawks. Breaks up squabbles, keeps his ladies in line, gives them first pick of foods and such. From that standpoint he's a dream rooster.

I appreciate the help with this mystery, guys.

Do you happen to have any broody birds? Nothing better than the way Mother Nature designed it

I've not hatched birds but I had a broody BA raise the 7 chicks I got in June. They learned all they needed to know about living here while being protected from everything around (including the other hens though I don't think they were a threat and a woodchuck that was minding its own business) during the 2 months she had them before she laid an egg and decided she was done raising them.

 

[pips&peeps]

It's not the right time of year for hatching. Egg production is low as is fertility.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

No. No hen would be broody in Ohio at this time of year. The weather was holding above 50*F until last night though all fall and winter.... Highly unusual and I was getting really decent egg production (3-4 eggs/day from 8 hens, some in molt) for the time of year. I was hoping others were too.

 

[HorseChick21]

Okay, this is random, lol but my girls just started laying, my blue cockerel had been sitting in the nesting box where they prefer to lay, he has been in there every time I have gone out the past few days ( which has been 6+ times each day as I've been working on stuff) I take the eggs from him and he just sits there, not calling or anything to the girls, any clue what his deal is? I did have one cockerel a long time ago that would call to the girls to encourage them, but he doesn't seem to be doing that.

 

[scflock]

It's not the right time of year for hatching.  Egg production is low as is fertility.

Really? Last year was my first incubating, and some of my best hatch rates ever were of cuckoo marans in January and February. They were first year layers, and my lowest rate in 3 hatches those months was 87%. I'm hoping my AMs can pull off the same this year. 8 pullets have just started laying, and hopefully I can get 2 dozen eggs within a week sometime in January. As soon as I can, I will set a batch and

 

[pips&peeps]

You have to consider your location also.

 

[scflock]

You have to consider your location also. 

No doubt, it's definitely warmer here. I just didn't know if there were other factors in play. The molt definitely affects them, but after the molt as long as they are laying they have bee mostly fertile. I'm just hoping for the same luck with the AMs