Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[bruceha2000]

What color are the yellow ones?

Um, Mr. Flock, is that not like asking "What color was Grant's white horse"?

 

[scflock]

you want to cut it in two . If you put a hole in the web it grows shut . Just like a pierced ear if you do not keep a ear ring in it . I use a ear notcher tool . This will not leave a hole by accident like the toe punch tool . It is also easier to keep track of as it is a larger tool .

Thanks, Jerry, that sounds like a good plan. So you are just cutting a V notch? My toe punch is very small, and I tried it on one chick, but it basically removed the webbing

 

[jerryse]

Thanks, Jerry, that sounds like a good plan. So you are just cutting a V notch? My toe punch is very small, and I tried it on one chick, but it basically removed the webbing

I remove most of the web .

 

[scflock]

Um, Mr. Flock, is that not like asking "What color was Grant's white horse"?

Don't take this the wrong way. Those that know me know it is a sign of acceptance. Brace yourself...

Those chicks looked like my splash, but I know Susan doesn't have splash, so I wondered what color.





Plus, I was too lazy to scroll up

 

[scflock]

I remove most of the web .

I like the idea of the notcher. I'd like to get them between the incubator and brooder. Didn't you say before that you could get them at TS?

 

[jerryse]

I like the idea of the notcher. I'd like to get them between the incubator and brooder. Didn't you say before that you could get them at TS?

Yes that is where I got mine . Any farm store should have them . Mostly used on hogs .

 

[bruceha2000]

Don't take this the wrong way. Those that know me know it is a sign of acceptance. Brace yourself...

Cool, I'm with the "in crowd" now!

Yeah, I had read her response further down but could not resist. I deserve the smack

I do know that lots (all??) chicks look different as adults than they do as chicks. Even my White Rocks were yellowish white. Now they are white ... except for the dirt.

 

[scflock]

Cool, I'm with the "in crowd" now!

Yeah, I had read her response further down but could not resist. I deserve the smack

I do know that lots (all??) chicks look different as adults than they do as chicks. Even my White Rocks were yellowish white. Now they are white ... except for the dirt.

Yeah, it's amazing how many different colored chickens start yellow. EEs are fun to watch, because mine all look like chipmunks, but no two look the same after they grow

 

[Saris]

I bought a toe punch, but fresh out of the incubator the webbing between their toes is too small to punch without cutting it in two. Do you wait for a few days?

Only 4 of my blacks made lockdown, but all 4 hatched, so I have my first ever black chicks from that rooster. Two blue and two black

4/10 of the splash had hatched by this morning. 6 eggs remaining with 4 pipped. Hopefully the rest will be out when I get home

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[scflock]

Pics or it didn't happen.

I didn't have time to take any this morning, but I'll get some tonight when they hit the brooder