Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[NestingHillsSC]

Call me envious. Are you in East or Middle TN?

East

 

[scflock]

Check the American Poultry Association site and go to the Poultry Show Central.com link. Once there go to "Find it" link to find breeders. Easier than that, go to the Ameraucana Breeders Club site and go to the breeders list link. You can sort breeders by state. There are reputable breeders on this site, too. Check with:
@scflock
@samouw
@FowlStuff

just to name a few .

I appreciate the referral, but I'm not in a class with the other two. I have nice birds, and I'm selling chicks, but John and Susan are breeders. I bought my birds from a good breeder, and I hope to learn to continue improving my flock, but I'm still learning. Hopefully one day I will be more comfortable calling myself a breeder

 

[samouw]

First test hatch in the incubator!

28 eggs in today - 14 black and 14 wheaten/blue wheaten!

I can't wait to see what I get from these breeding pens!​

 

[scflock]

First test hatch in the incubator!

28 eggs in today - 14 black and 14 wheaten/blue wheaten!

I can't wait to see what I get from these breeding pens!​

​

I got my new incubator, and set again last night. Now I'm due on the 14th and 18th

 

[RedtailAdams]

So after reading half this thread, double checking the standards, hatching one offspring, and several phone calls ending in talking directly to the hatchery from which they came....here is my ameraucana roo. His side iridecant feathers go from black to green and blue and purple.

 

[pips&peeps]

He's not an ameraucana, he is an ee.

 

[jerryse]

So after reading half this thread, double checking the standards, hatching one offspring, and several phone calls ending in talking directly to the hatchery from which they came....here is my ameraucana roo. His side iridecant feathers go from black to green and blue and purple.

EE no matter what the hatchery says .

 

[scflock]

EE no matter what the hatchery says .

Got a McMurray catalog in the mail last week. I know most have seen the ad, but they get out of it by saying "Our ameraucanas are not for show".

 

[scflock]

Pulled from their website:

Araucanas/Ameraucanas
Loosely referred to as the "Easter Egg Chicken", our Araucanas/Ameraucanas lay beautiful colored eggs of blue-green shades from turquoise to deep olive. Our chicks have some Araucana and some Americana blood mixed and consequently are not for show.

 

[bruceha2000]

I know right?? I'm sure I'm overthinking but I'd just die if I lost all my Ams! The ones I dont even have yet! lol! No, it would be a run with a coop attached. No screens....due to the large number of preditors & hawks on our land they are not allowed out...it would be like throwing the dog a bone every morning! I've never seen any ducks around, mostly sparrows & the likes. And to my knowledge its always been chicken free grounds.

Well then my non expert opinion is "don't sweat it!"

We bought this place at the end of 2011, prior owners apparently owned (over time) just about any animal you might find on a farm but bovines. There are 2 pre Civil War barns (not in good shape) and the lower part of the small one has been set up for fowl, but it is foul (bad roof). And it is not at all predator safe (gee I wonder why he lost chickens to weasels when you can see light between the foundation rocks). So I converted a horse stall (*) in the lower part of the big barn to a predator safe coop. There is a pond in a (poorly fenced) barnyard behind the barns. We get a couple of migrating Canada Geese and Mallards coming through in the spring. They hang about for a couple of days.

The chickens have free run of the lower part of the barn all day, the "barnyard" any time we are gone for just a few hours and anywhere they want to go (they self limit to about 100' from buildings) if we are home. There is no way to keep them from going where wild birds have been including inside the barn, they seem to prefer the layer feed to whatever they would eat outside while my chickens love to forage"real" food. I've not seen any disease or parasite problems in my birds. If the avian flu starts showing up in the Eastern migration corridor, I will have to take steps to keep them from visiting us.

Of course, your "mileage" may vary

and I can certainly understand not wanting to take any chances with special birds!


* There was a lady that boarded 3 horses here when we bought it and her horses were here until about a month before I got chickens so the chicks were on "pasture" that had recently been used daily by horses for quite some time.