Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[junebuggena]

Love it when an Ameraucana article is actually about Ameraucana and not Easter Eggers!

 

[samouw]

That is exactly what I did. Great birds Susan!

It thrills me no end when someone is getting as much enjoyment out of chicks that came from here, as I get from the ones that stayed.

 

[Red Banks]

Quote: Very beautiful!

 

[Meara]

WVduckchick I have the same question. I'm searching for breeders of bantam Ameraucanas

 

[Chicken5555]

Are you a Am breeder? It would be nice to know an honest one!

Susan Mouw (@samouw ) is VERY honest. She is so honest that she will look for the smallest of faults in any Ameraucana that she is preparing to sell. My favorite chickens come from her flock. I think she ships eggs sometimes, but you'd have to ask her to be sure.

 

[Red Banks]

Quote: Susan has beautiful birds, does an amazing job shipping

. Dedicated Ameraucana Breeder.

 

[samouw]

Susan Mouw (@samouw ) is VERY honest. She is so honest that she will look for the smallest of faults in any Ameraucana that she is preparing to sell. My favorite chickens come from her flock. I think she ships eggs sometimes, but you'd have to ask her to be sure.

I'm humbled. Thank you and @RedBanks for endorsement! I just try to treat folks who buy from me the same way I would want to be treated...

 

[LaPoulet]

[COLOR=0066CC]Countryside Daily is spotlighting Ameraucanas as their Breed of the Month.[/COLOR]

Loved it! Very informative articles! Thanks

 

[samouw]

I want to share something with all of you, just briefly. Yesterday, I lost one of my favorite hens, a year old blue wheaten hen. She was one of those that would come talk to you when you come near, and would love sitting in your lap.

I lost her because I wasn't paying attention. I knew the cockbird in that pen was aggressive with his hens, but I would still see them out and about during the day, so I thought everyone was getting food and drink. But I was wrong. One hen, apparently his "favorite", had gotten so intimidated by that cockbird, she quit coming out of the coop - at all. And I wasn't paying enough attention to realize she was losing weight, and becoming dehydrated, until it was too late. I brought her inside yesterday to try and save her, but I couldn't - her systems had already begun to shut down.

My first Ameraucana was a cockerel named Hawkeye. Hawkeye was the model for how an Ameraucana cockbird should act - always gentle towards his hens, they got the treats first, never aggressive towards humans - unless you were trying to hurt one of "his" girls! And Hawkeye put that stamp of temperament on all his get...right down to the third and fourth generation. But I had a cockbird, a great grandson of Hawkeye, that got a wild gene for temperament from somewhere. He didn't share treats, and he was very rough with the girls. I put off putting him down, because he was a beautiful bird. I'll never make that mistake again.

Now I've lost the cockbird and one of my favorite hens. Maybe someone else will take away a lesson from what happened here.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

I want to share something with all of you, just briefly.  Yesterday, I lost one of my favorite hens, a year old blue wheaten hen.  She was one of those that would come talk to you when you come near, and would love sitting in your lap.

I lost her because I wasn't paying attention.  I knew the cockbird in that pen was aggressive with his hens, but I would still see them out and about during the day, so I thought everyone was getting food and drink.  But I was wrong.  One hen, apparently his "favorite", had gotten so intimidated by that cockbird, she quit coming out of the coop - at all.  And I wasn't paying enough attention to realize she was losing weight, and becoming dehydrated, until it was too late.  I brought her inside yesterday to try and save her, but I couldn't - her systems had already begun to shut down.

My first Ameraucana was a cockerel named Hawkeye.  Hawkeye was the model for how an Ameraucana cockbird should act - always gentle towards his hens, they got the treats first, never aggressive towards humans - unless you were trying to hurt one of "his" girls!  And Hawkeye put that stamp of temperament on all his get...right down to the third and fourth generation.  But I had a cockbird, a great grandson of Hawkeye, that got a wild gene for temperament from somewhere.  He didn't share treats, and he was very rough with the girls.  I put off putting him down, because he was a beautiful bird.  I'll never make that mistake again.

Now I've lost the cockbird and one of my favorite hens.  Maybe someone else will take away a lesson from what happened here.

I'm so sorry for your loss.