Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Reyvaughn]

ETA:
The "don't like the answer, don't ask" is what I was getting at.
I don't mind helping out, and heck, I started with EEs, too. I did do a lot of my own research and I learned a lot! I still have a lot more to learn (and I really need to buy an SOP - anyone have an older edition they want to sell?) I got rid of my mixed egg layer flock and got serious about chickens. I never fought with anyone over the SOP and what should and shouldn't be because it is what it is. Simple.

If you want to get into Ams, we welcome you. If you don't want to hear that what you spent your money on isn't an Am (or is and it's an SOP variety or even a project variety), well, you should have researched first. You can't change what your bird is and you can't change the SOP to suit yourself. The rules are the rules. They are there for a reason.

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Update on the Brown Reds...
Mike gave me Tim's contact info so I wrote to him. Now to await his reply.

 

[checoukan]

I am in the same mind as you dak, as I am working on my blacks. But the lavendaer color still is a favorite color. I am hoping to take some of my blacks to some spring shows this year.

Praying they get my new barn finished soon so I can get my birds moved in soon!!!

 

[Shaffer]

Dak,
Sorry to hear you are considering to possibly give up the Lavenders, you are making such great progress with them.

 

[dak]

Dak,
Sorry to hear you are considering to possibly give up the Lavenders, you are making such great progress with them.

I think about it alot, but it hasn't happen yet. Of the lavs I bred last year (about 30) from the split x split breeding I have culled down to a trio and I dislike the cockerel. I think I will make some splits this year with the two pullets and not think too much about them other than that.

 

[Shaffer]

I think about it alot, but it hasn't happen yet. Of the lavs I bred last year (about 30) from the split x split breeding I have culled down to a trio and I dislike the cockerel. I think I will make some splits this year with the two pullets and not think too much about them other than that.

Clare,
That sounds like a sensible plan. I know if I had not kept my old black split hens I would have had a very rough start after two years of preditor devistation. One of my relatives won best Ameraucana at a show with a split black so at least you can show the splits till Lavenders become APA approved color.

 

[dak]

Clare,
That sounds like a sensible plan. I know if I had not kept my old black split hens I would have had a very rough start after two years of preditor devistation. One of my relatives won best Ameraucana at a show with a split black so at least you can show the splits till Lavenders become APA approved color.

This is the cockerel I will be using. He is just 7 months old in this picture. I already have chicks on the ground from him and my Black hens.

 

[pips&peeps]

That's a nice young man....

 

[Shaffer]

That's a nice young man....

X2

 

[dak]

I need to get some current pics of him. He is one of those you have to stop and watch as you walk by the pen. Of course the girls have debearded him. If he looks like he will molt in time for the fall show I will have to put him in a conditioning cage.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

if I hear anything on Brown-Reds I will keep you updated. I plan on looking into it further this weekend