Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Divannah]

EE.

If a bird has green legs, it has yellow skin.  Ameraucanas have white skin.  You can see this really easily on white birds, because they have a yellow beak.

Also if the color is not one of the standard colors it is more than likely and easter egger.

Thank you for stating that. I have read here numerous times about the green legs = EE, but never had they "Why?" explained.
So yellow skin over a slate leg makes green, just like the pigment of brown eggs over a blue egg makes green. And yellow skinned chickens typically have yellow beaks too?
This helps to know in a lot of ways. Thanks again.

 

[johnderosa1]

Thank you for stating that. I have read here numerous times about the green legs = EE, but never had they "Why?" explained.
So yellow skin over a slate leg makes green, just like the pigment of brown eggs over a blue egg makes green. And yellow skinned chickens typically have yellow beaks too?
This helps to know in a lot of ways. Thanks again.

Yes that is the basic idea... In this case it is actually slate over yellow skin on the legs....

 

[FVRM]

Is this hen a splash?

yes, that would be a splash. i don't know if it's the photo angle but they look BIG!

 

[JekkaLynn]

She is getting to be a pretty big girl and he is gigantic. He is from a show barn and his dad is from New York where apparently they breed them a lot bigger.

 

[WendyF]

She is getting to be a pretty big girl and he is gigantic. He is from a show barn and his dad is from New York where apparently they breed them a lot bigger.

Wow! They look Orpington size! They are reall gorgeous birds. How old are they? Are you planning on breeding them? I love the splash's face!

 

[JekkaLynn]

Wow! They look Orpington size! They are reall gorgeous birds. How old are they? Are you planning on breeding them? I love the splash's face!

The rooster hatched the beginning of march the pullet hatched the beginning of may. I am going to wait until the pullet and her sister are laying and then I will breed them.

 

[Nofowlplay]

Is this hen a splash?

What a beauty! So much bigger than my Am hen! What are you feeding your chickens?

 

[Nofowlplay]

I have put this off for a long long time.   I kept him around to be sure there was a rooster to watch over the hens and younger birds until some of the new batch grew up enough.  There is also a lot of pressure from my family, particularly my adult son who lives at home.  None of us like killing an animal.  I just hate slaughtering birds.  I don't mind the processing--it's the killing that I find incredibly difficult.

I really need to do this for all the reasons you've given.  He IS a serious risk to people.  If I'm out, I always am aware of where he is.  My property has a lot of live oak trees and there are a lot of dried leaves on the ground that make a lot of noise when he rushes me, but this is no way to live.  I have a gated property, so no one can come on my property without me opening the gate.  I'll meet them at their car and escort them into the house, but it is darn inconvenient.    I can always put him in a spare pen if people are coming, but he just has to go.

I just had surgery on both wrists last week (carpal tunnel) and will have to wait for awhile.  I slaughtered a group of 10 or 11 month-old cockerels last winter and they were really hard to process.  I had to use a knife to release the guts from the body. They took brute strength to process and I don't have any strength in my hands right now.  There was nothing easy about processing that group and this one is a lot older.  I'm dreading it.

My brother had a rooster that kept attacking him and he finally put it away with a 22 rifle....just sayin.

 

[sssharon]

I wouldn't want to kill a chicken but I would definitely not want to be looking over my shoulder all the time. No way whatsoever. In that case I would be able to do away with that bird in a heartbeat.

 

[JekkaLynn]

What a beauty! So much bigger than my Am hen! What are you feeding your chickens?

I fed her chick start until she was six weeks then she got grower and then the last few months she has gotten scratch grain mixed into the grower. I did a couple weeks of fermented feed when she was going though a growth spurt and she has been allowed to free range on two acres of pasture all day since she was six weeks old. She has also gotten a lot of table scraps and Black Oil Sunflower Seeds and free choice grit and calcium.