Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Reyvaughn]

Well I missed 19 pages but... nothin new. lol!!
Egg color discussions and ameraucana VS easter eggers. Does anyone feel like they are experiencing deja vu?

Seems to be the trending topic. When we get into adult conversations with some intellectual basis, the conversation quickly becomes the same drawling banter we just discussed a couple days ago.

I thought for sure wanting to BUY a rooster would perk people up since there seems to be a lot of winter culling happening right now. Nope. Oh well. This thread is going to become another one I quit following.

 

[chicken fever]

As long as they say they are EE then I'm ok with it lol I just don't like it when some people sell EE to buyers really wanting a true ameraucana. I too LOVE my EE, they r my most reliable layers of beautiful eggs. I guess my point is that I wish people would just be honest to people who are new. Nothing wrong with EE at all, they r pretty!

What is wrong with breeding and selling EE?  A lot of people want the pretty eggs for eating like you..... and if you don't breed them you will lose your eating eggs one day.  I love my EE pen, way more reliable layers of much bigger eggs

 

[DMRippy]

As long as they say they are EE then I'm ok with it lol I just don't like it when some people sell EE to buyers really wanting a true ameraucana. I too LOVE my EE, they r my most reliable layers of beautiful eggs.

I guess my point is that I wish people would just be honest to people who are new. Nothing wrong with EE at all, they r pretty!
Quote: Thanks for the clarification.....

I like all the colors and I can mix and match.

 

[slick4591]

I have eight little ones in the brooder. This is my first hatch of true Ameraucanas and I'm guessing that the ones with the long tails are the cockerels and the ones with the short ones are pullets, right?

 

[DMRippy]

I have eight little ones in the brooder. This is my first hatch of true Ameraucanas and I'm guessing that the ones with the long tails are the cockerels and the ones with the short ones are pullets, right?

Usually it is the other way around, but that is not reliable... crowing and eggs Cuz Ameraucanas are hard to sex..... takes me months sometimes.

 

[slick4591]

Usually it is the other way around, but that is not reliable... crowing and eggs Cuz Ameraucanas are hard to sex..... takes me months sometimes.

Wait! There ain't no way my luck could run good enough to have five pullets out of that hatch. Thanks! Hope you're right!

 

[Reyvaughn]

So glad I have BW/Ws. You know their gender by 6-8 weeks for sure. If I have another color (had blacks and lavs), I went by their combs and legs. If their was 3 visible pea rows + thick legs = cockerel. If only one trait showed, I guessed for awhile but I was pretty sure by 8wks on them, too.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: I don't know how to sex them..... I had 2 Lav Pullets in with the roos.....

 

[Basel]

So glad I have BW/Ws. You know their gender by 6-8 weeks for sure. If I have another color (had blacks and lavs), I went by their combs and legs. If their was 3 visible pea rows + thick legs = cockerel. If only one trait showed, I guessed for awhile but I was pretty sure by 8wks on them, too.

At what age did you find the comb and legs size to be reliable?

 

[Pele]

Seems to be the trending topic. When we get into adult conversations with some intellectual basis, the conversation quickly becomes the same drawling banter we just discussed a couple days ago.

I thought for sure wanting to BUY a rooster would perk people up since there seems to be a lot of winter culling happening right now. Nope. Oh well. This thread is going to become another one I quit following.

I'm sorry I started the discussion then. I'm actually very surprised that spreading recognition and clarification of the breed is such a banal topic (I'm really not being sarcastic, I'm really very surprised). It wasn't intended to start a debate about EEs (nobody said they people shouldn't buy them, I have no idea where that came from). I only considered them vaguely related to the topic in that they're being distinguished by the mainstream from Ameraucanas now. Which I consider to be a major victory.

I have an abiding respect for the breed, and for the people who have fought for so long to establish and distinguish them. That's why I was excited and wanted to share about the breed gaining more respect. It was not intended to 'stir the pot', or cause a re-run of the discussion. I apologize that that is what happened.