Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Goose and Fig]

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She does look like a splash wheaten. She should have white tips on her tail and wings where black would be on a wheaten hen. Its hard to tell from the pic. She's very nice looking.

I know- she's just "white"! One little bit of blue- like a "spot" that you would see on a splash bird. Her father was a wheaten though. I like her shape & personality, so I'll use her anyway. The wheatens crack me up. I swear they only have one speed- run!

Kansaseq- I would keep a few of those boys if I were you. Never hurts to have a back-up roo. I'm trying to get at least one of every color that is "useable". I'm smacking myself now for giving 2 away.

 

[chics in the sun]

Here are my two Splash babies from Halo. They are feathering out nicely, and I am guessing that they are both pullets? They both look like they have brown coming in, but one is definatley feathering in faster than the other. Opinions?

 

[Illia]

I see two pullets.

 

[halo]

Not splash...either blue wheaten or wheaten...daddy is wheaten....

I think you got lucky there!

 

[Cocotte]

We've been getting frost at night lately, and this morning it was especially heavy so I decided to go pick all the big green tomatoes. After picking them I started pulling out the plants (they are just massive!) and look what I found..

There were NINE blue eggs hiding in there!!! That naughty Ginger!

And here's the culprit

I put the whole flock on house arrest -- usually they have the run of the yard and just scratch around to their heart's content, but now that I know someone is hiding eggs in the garden I want to put a stop to it! They are all complaining bitterly too.

So if I keep them in their run for a week or so, Ginger (and Martha if she's laying too, I guess there's no way to know if all nine eggs were from one chicken) will start to lay in the nest box, right? And if she starts laying in the box, if I let her go free ranging again will she keep laying in the box or will she go look for another hiding place?

Think maybe my broody cochin had anything to do with it? She went through this crazy long broody phase for over 2 months and just quit a few days ago...maybe she told Ginger off and wouldn't let her in the box? (we do have two nest boxes though)

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Pretty girls Tyler!

Thanks for sharing your pics...I really like both of them, nice top lines!

Maybe it's the washout from the pics, but it looks like the hen's legs are really light...??

We just got home from a show today too, and my roo took reserve variety to one of my hens best of variety, and she took reserve breed to a wheaten pullet with NO black in her tail...kind of displeased about that, but whatever, it is what it is. Got to talk to the judge afterward, and he said he just liked the type on the wheaten better, "build the house and then paint it" he said...interesting perspective...
One of the other judges did not agree with him, but it's the opinion of the one judging the class that counts. There's always next time.

On a better note, I took my LF lavender cockerel, and Jean liked him so much, she wants to take him to the Ameraucana national in Illinois next year. That's kind of exciting. We weighed him, at exactly 6 months, he already weighs 6lbs, 9oz. I knew he was big, but seeing him stand tall and proud in a show cage was pretty impressive (tooting Jean's horn here, not my own! LOL - I had nothing to do with it, I just got lucky!)

Take care Tyler - keep doing what you're doing, it's always "just one judge's opinion"...which I am currently having to remind myself...

 

[chics in the sun]

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Oops! Thank you! I almost went back to our PM's to check, and instead decided to be lazy and let you correct me if I had the wrong color! The one that is feathering in slower has a more bluish tint to her yellow fuzz. I'm so excited they are both girls!! YEAH for blue eggs!

And what a naughty girl, that ginger! You must have wondered at the decreased egg production!

 

[halo]

Neat picture with the eggs and tomatoes!

 

[Cocotte]

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These are her first eggs -- I've been waiting and waiting and checking the boxes all day long for the past two weeks (she started squatting 2 weeks ago, has a red comb and face, is 26 weeks now, etc.) I kept saying, "any day now, she's going to lay an egg," and it turns out she's already laid NINE, haha!

 

[verlaj]

halo - Maybe your hens tend to broodiness? I found a blue rock I hatched from your eggs sitting on a nest behind our recycling bins a few weeks ago! Put the broody back in the coop where she belongs and put the eggs that looked like they were developing in the incubator. Now have 4 adorable chicks. I keep asking them "Who's your daddy?" They aren't telling!