Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[jeremy]

Illia, I see them picking food, etc. all the time from Claude's beard... I have no idea how to prevent it. I honestly don't know if there is a way to?

As for some of the girls with bald patches, that mostly has come from a reorganizing of the pecking order. Since we've moved and added/subtracted some birds the pecking order has been shuffled around a bit. I'm just glad that their beards are being picked and not their combs like some of my single combed chickens! They look like a mess!

 

[mothergoose]

Cindy, I would love to see them new babies.

Christie

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

First off, the eggs are getting better as the pullets get older. Many are still quite green, but a few are looking good. I didn't edit this pic, but I did have to use a flash.

Here are the babies.

 

[mothergoose]

Excellent photos ! I love the group shots! This is me waiting patiently!!!

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Christie

 

[MissD'uccle]

Those babies are gorgeous! I want some now!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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I know that in the Favs, it's a SUPER hard habit to break, they will teach it to each other. I ended up selling a pullet that I saw picking at the beard of a pullet I was sure I wanted to keep. None of them pick at each other now. An old time Fav breeder said that it is normal for the girls to pick at the boys' beards, but if the girls pick at each other it was a problem that you have to stop at once, or you're doomed...

 

[chicken stalker]

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...I'm to sexy for my shell, to sexy for my shell, so sexy it hurts.....

 

[Tailfeathers]

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The green is most likely the result of someone throwing some brown egg genes. I had this problem a couple of years ago and was able to correct it by determining who the culprit was thru some meticulous records keeping. It can be determined and corrected in just one year.

If you haven't been keeping detailed records of your yearly breeding plans, I would suggest breeding your birds to a white egg layer and then looking for any progeny that throws any brown in their eggs or greenish eggs. Those birds carrying all blue egg genes should throw all blue eggs as blue is dominant over white.

You'll have to hatch a bunch of chicks and keep a bunch of birds long enough for them to lay but it is probably the fastest way to figure out where the brown genes are coming from.

God Bless,

Royce

 

[pips&peeps]

I can't wait to hatch more lavs!!!!

Royce, these are lavs and most of them are carrying the brown gene still, it won't clear up in a year.

If you put your eggs in a different color carton, you can see the shell color better.

A red background will help too.

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

Yes Royce. I am trying to not only keep meticulous records, but I want to specifically grow out a good male from a blue egg so I know he has the most chance of improving that trait. But even if I hatch the most blue eggs, the males I'm currently using are unknowns so it will be a long process no matter which way I go about it. Thanks for your input; good advice.