Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[jajeanpierre]

Parrots and other psittacine birds are especially dangerous because they can carry exotic Newcastle disease virus and show no clinical signs.

Exotic Newcastle's Disease is so easily spread and so stable in the environment that if I had pet birds that were carriers, my chickens will get it anyway whether I keep them in the same aviary or if they are separate. The only realistic way I could keep my hypothetically infected parrots from passing it on is to change clothes and shoes and probably shower every time I went near their cages. I would need a completely separate ventilation system in my house as well.

Many chicks have been in my aviaries and none have gotten sick, so I think I can be assured that my parrots are not carriers.

 

[OwensChickens]

Curious if anyone knows what variety this chick is? We got 9 chicks from a breeder, blues and wheatens. Not sure what this little one is:

 

[chickenlady099]

Curious if anyone knows what variety this chick is? We got 9 chicks from a breeder, blues and wheatens. Not sure what this little one is:

Could be a Splash it comes from blues on blues

 

[FVRM]

Thinking the same thing chickenlady.

 

[OwensChickens]

A few wheaten pics (3 bantam and 2 LF). They were hard to get staying still and they got mixed up. Owen is sick, but I might get him to help me get better pics. Can we tell cockerel from pullet at this stage?

 

[OwensChickens]

Our guess was splash too, but we are rookies.

 

[FVRM]

A few wheaten pics (3 bantam and 2 LF). They were hard to get staying still and they got mixed up. Owen is sick, but I might get him to help me get better pics. Can we tell cockerel from pullet at this stage?

I don't know which photos are of the same chicks but on the first one, you have a pullet for sure on the right and a possible roo on the left. More than possible actually. If they have any kind if dark feathers they are males

 

[OwensChickens]

OK, here are much better pictures of the 5 young wheathen chicks:

Pullet!:



Pullet??





Cockerel!



Another Cockerel!



Not sure, but thinking cockerel?

 

[FVRM]

The first two are pullets. The bottom two are cockerels but the third one from the bottom could be a pullet

 

[chickenlady099]

Pic 6 looks like pullet

A few wheaten pics (3 bantam and 2 LF). They were hard to get staying still and they got mixed up. Owen is sick, but I might get him to help me get better pics. Can we tell cockerel from pullet at this stage?