Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[MrsBachbach]

Help Pullet or cockerel? December chick.... I know what I think, but I just can't tell with these lavenders!

Looks like a pullet to me.

 

[potagergirl]

Is there anyway to break a hen from eating eggs? Fortunately, it is one of my EEs and not my AMs. Will the nests that have the eggs roll out in a tray prevent this? I caught her in the act and I hope this is the only one that I have doing this. Can't really rehome her because my grandson picked her out.

I read on the natural board to make a tiny hole on one end of the egg and fill it with mustard. Do this with a few eggs for her and she will quit.

 

[PapaChaz]

I read on the natural board to make a tiny hole on one end of the egg and fill it with mustard. Do this with a few eggs for her and she will quit.

what if it turns out she likes mustard? then she'll be expecting them fixed that way all the time, you know how kids are........

 

[christine9]

Help Pullet or cockerel? December chick.... I know what I think, but I just can't tell with these lavenders!

Pullet

 

[PapaChaz]

hi Christine9 good to see you here

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

@JackieandChicks Definitely a pullet, congrats

 

[christine9]

hi Christine9 good to see you here 

 

[JackieandChicks]

Thank you all! She's got a double beard...only I learned fermented feed can caught in it, like a man's beard LOL!

 

[fiveidahoboys]

After reading a few of the posts regarding the color of eggs, I thought I would post a pic of the eggs I just started getting from my girls. I added a few from the "other" ladies for contrast. This is their first lay season and I just love their color. Hopefully it comes out ok.

Pretty! I recently bought three laying hens, two Rhode Island reds and one Ameracaunas. I've had them a few days and have not yet gotten any green eggs. I have gotten brown which I assumed were from the reds. Then my friend told me her Ameracaunas lays tan/brown eggs. Is this true of any of your Ameracaunas? Or are the Brownish eggs in your pic all from other hens?

 

[XxMingirlxX]

Pretty! I recently bought three laying hens, two Rhode Island reds and one Ameracaunas. I've had them a few days and have not yet gotten any green eggs. I have gotten brown which I assumed were from the reds. Then my friend told me her Ameracaunas lays tan/brown eggs. Is this true of any of your Ameracaunas? Or are the Brownish eggs in your pic all from other hens?

If her Ameraucana is laying tan or brown eggs then my guess is it's not an Ameraucana and is an EE.