Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

I googled Paul Smith Ameraucana's and couldn't find the actual page for him. Lots of interesting articles though! Can anyone attach a link for me?
He doesn't have a website, but if you go to the breeders page on the club website, I believe it has his email address there. He and his wife are very quick to respond and they're just really nice people who want to sell you good birds and teach you about the breed.
 
  • speckledhen, I'd call that one ENTERTAINMENT! We have several birds that are not good for anything but laying eggs. Some don't even do that. But the entertainment is worth a lot! =) Any bird with that many foibles is just fun!

Sounds like a good title for her because that's all she is. At least, she does lay eggs, right?
 
The labeling thing has been a bone of contention for ages.

I have this hen who came from a BBS Ameraucana flock (saw the stock and am very familiar with BBS Ameraucanas), hatched from a lovely blue, not green, egg. She has no beard, has spurs, lays a brown egg, can be aggressive, and as she grew, it became apparent that she had Sumatra influence somewhere way back in her lineage. And, though it probably has no bearing on breed, she has terrible eyesight. She's an obvious throwback to some fence jumping Sumatra rooster many breeders ago, not the breeder who gave me the eggs. I don't even like to call her an EE. I call her my weirdo Ameraucana with Sumatra lineage. What the heck would you call an accident of genetics like Tiny, really? Genetics are funny things, little trick-playing gremlins.
Here is a spur she lost recently:
Mike Gilbert used a blue laced bantam Sumatra pullet to improve lacing. Jerry DeSmidt had a winning bantam cockerel and Mike Gilbert had a winning hen at the nationals a year or two ago that descended from that (Mike Gilbert's) line. So, it might not be a fence jumping Sumatra rooster, but a planned breeding.
 
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I have a question on this chick. I hatched it out of a batch of shipped eggs about a month ago and I think it's a cockerel. What's up with it's legs? They have darkened up since hatching but are still very light.
 
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I have a question on this chick. I hatched it out of a batch of shipped eggs about a month ago and I think it's a cockerel. What's up with it's legs? They have darkened up since hatching but are still very light.
 
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I have a question on this chick. I hatched it out of a batch of shipped eggs about a month ago and I think it's a cockerel. What's up with it's legs? They have darkened up since hatching but are still very light.
 
Mike Gilbert used a blue laced bantam Sumatra pullet to improve lacing. Jerry DeSmidt had a winning bantam cockerel and Mike Gilbert had a winning hen at the nationals a year or two ago that descended from that (Mike Gilbert's) line. So, it might not be a fence jumping Sumatra rooster, but a planned breeding.

That is interesting! Thank you for the information! The breeder who gave me the eggs did not have Sumatra, knew nothing about it other than the breeder that she got her rooster from raised Sumatra, blues if I recall, coincidentally, in times past. Tiny's parents are Ameraucanas, blue egg laying, visually BBS Ameraucanas so she is a good example of how genes can pop up way down the generations. My other Ameraucanas are Cree Farms, but aging now. They are 5 1/2 to 6 years old.
 
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Thanks - never thought of fertility being an issue. Labels me as a newbie - again =)
 
Wheatans start off with a lighter shade in the legs and it gradually darkens on most.
And I'd guess cockrel.

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I have a question on this chick. I hatched it out of a batch of shipped eggs about a month ago and I think it's a cockerel. What's up with it's legs? They have darkened up since hatching but are still very light.
 

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