Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[hosspak]

Eggshell color will not change.What your hen laid is sometimes called a peanut egg.A small piece of tissue flakes off and some eeg white is added and a shell.

What was inside when you cracked it open? I'm thinking maybe a sparrow or other just used the nest... They do that....

 

[Angelicisi]

Looking for opinions on Bad points or Good points
18 month Blue wheatan hen.
Finishing up her molt.

 

[Angel16]

Eggshell color will not change.What your hen laid is sometimes called a peanut egg.A small piece of tissue flakes off and some eeg white is added and a shell.

Ya it was about the size of a peanut. So she wont lay blue eggs???? I though Ameraucana's layed blue eggs??

What was inside when you cracked it open? I'm thinking maybe a sparrow or other just used the nest... They do that....

I haven't cracked it open yet, but i don't think it is cause it was in the nesting box inside the coop

 

[pips&peeps]

Ya it was about the size of a peanut. So she wont lay blue eggs???? I though Ameraucana's layed blue eggs??
I haven't cracked it open yet, but i don't think it is cause it was in the nesting box inside the coop

When you first got them a couple of them were clean faced, they are probable easter eggers.

 

[Phage]

Hello! I have a question, I have a ( i think she's about 6 or 6 and a half months old) Black Ameraucana, today i found a egg in the nesting box that was about 1/3 of a inch by 1/3 of a inch ( it looked like i had been layed by a small Sparrow!) and i think it's my Ameraucana's egg but it's not blue. Will she lay blue eggs or just light brown ones??

Any hen can lay those mini eggs, so they are not necessarily from a new layer. Do you have other layers in the coop that lay light brown eggs?


If the egg was light brown (not blue or green) and was for sure laid by your hen, are you sure your bird is a pure ameraucana and not an easter egger?

Hopefully it was just from one of your other hens.

 

[DMRippy]

 
Eggshell color will not change.What your hen laid is sometimes called a peanut egg.A small piece of tissue flakes off and some eeg white is added and a shell.

What was inside when you cracked it open? I'm thinking maybe a sparrow or other just used the nest... They do that....

I would not think wild birds are laying eggs this time of year. they are seasonal layers and will lay in the spring and summer to raise chicks.

 

[Angel16]

Any hen can lay those mini eggs, so they are not necessarily from a new layer. Do you have other layers in the coop that lay light brown eggs?


If the egg was light brown (not blue or green) and was for sure laid by your hen, are you sure your bird is a pure ameraucana and not an easter egger?

Hopefully it was just from one of your other hens.

When you first got them a couple of them were clean faced, they are probable easter eggers.

I'm not sure what that is...? Can you show me apicture? The person i bought her from said she was a Ameraucana. Can you show me a picture of a Easter Egger and a picture of a Ameraucana? Thanks!!

Any hen can lay those mini eggs, so they are not necessarily from a new layer. Do you have other layers in the coop that lay light brown eggs?


If the egg was light brown (not blue or green) and was for sure laid by your hen, are you sure your bird is a pure ameraucana and not an easter egger?

Hopefully it was just from one of your other hens.

I do have other hens in her coop but her vent looks stretched like she just layed a egg.....? the person i bought her from said she was a Ameraucana ( he told me his blue hen was her mom) he had her mom there she is a pure blue Ameraucana and the dad was black? Is there a way i can tell if she is a Ameraucana or a Eester Egger?

 

[OlofDrofn]

I have a 6 month old black Ameraucana and she was ill when I got her with a upper resp infection which then spread to the rest of my chickens and caused them all to quit laying for 2 months and one is just now starting to lay again. I contacted the seller that I got her from and she said that she didn't know that she was ill when I got her but as soon as I got her home 3 months ago she was sneezing and she sounded like a crow. I treated my flock and finally they are sounding healthy again. When I asked her if her others had started laying she said that 6 months is not old enough for Ameraucanas. Is this true? My other chickens started at 5-6 months.

 

[Penny Hen]

I have a 6 month old black Ameraucana and she was ill when I got her with a upper resp infection which then spread to the rest of my chickens and caused them all to quit laying for 2 months and one is just now starting to lay again. I contacted the seller that I got her from and she said that she didn't know that she was ill when I got her but as soon as I got her home 3 months ago she was sneezing and she sounded like a crow. I treated my flock and finally they are sounding healthy again. When I asked her if her others had started laying she said that 6 months is not old enough for Ameraucanas. Is this true? My other chickens started at 5-6 months.

They do seem to be a little slower than some breeds. My Olive Eggers (half Ameraucanas) were 6 months about 2 weeks ago and I am still waiting on eggs.

 

[speckledhen]

I have a 6 month old black Ameraucana and she was ill when I got her with a upper resp infection which then spread to the rest of my chickens and caused them all to quit laying for 2 months and one is just now starting to lay again. I contacted the seller that I got her from and she said that she didn't know that she was ill when I got her but as soon as I got her home 3 months ago she was sneezing and she sounded like a crow. I treated my flock and finally they are sounding healthy again. When I asked her if her others had started laying she said that 6 months is not old enough for Ameraucanas. Is this true? My other chickens started at 5-6 months.

That's too bad because now she's a carrier as are any of your others who became ill. Very unfortunate. Be sure you don't sell any of them or it will pass to the buyers' flocks.

To answer your question, my own BBS Ameraucanas are all well over 5 years old now, but I seem to recall they all began laying somewhere around 28 weeks old or so. I have one who is 6 years old and still lays in spurts. Good girl, my Gypsy.