Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[scflock]

Many people have birds from Paul. My starts came from there also. Btw, I have family down there, just a drive NW of you. My husband was down in your area not long ago, the Pierre Part area. He loved it down there. Wish I could have gone, but had all these dang birds to care for! Keep them babies safe and the gators at bay!

Really? Small world! Lol Yes, my husband loves Pierre Part area as well... We were actually looking at buying a house there or Chackbay/Kraemer area, but ended up deciding to build in Thibodaux! So our chickens will be moving to a new place in the next couple of months but will be living like kings in their new chicken house we are building them! We will certainly have to take extra precautions now that we will have a small canal at the rear of our property. Already seeing plenty nutria!

Sorry, I just can't read Pierre Part without thinking about Troy Landry. I would love to see that area. The SC coast is beautiful, but LA is totally different. I think I would go there just for the food.

 

[kaitbray]

They both have tails , one just has his smooshed against his buddy , odd camera angle.

 

[junebuggena]

They both have tails , one just has his smooshed against his buddy , odd camera angle.

They're Easter Eggers.

 

[BurtaBird6]

Do I have Ameraucana chicks around 4 weeks old this weekend
I was looking at this thread and I think mine look similar to Ameraucanas

 

[junebuggena]

Do I have Ameraucana chicks around 4 weeks old this weekend
I was looking at this thread and I think mine look similar to Ameraucanas

The buff chick is a Buff Orpington. The other chick is clean faced, so it could be an Easter Egger.

 

[BurtaBird6]

Oh I was hoping that they would be Ameraucanas. Thanks for the help. Is it to early to tell sex?

 

[junebuggena]

The Orpington looks like a pullet for now. The blue one I suspect is a cockerel with the darker blue feathers on the shoulders and the comb is a bit too pink and a bit too developed for a pullet.

 

[BurtaBird6]

Thanks so much for the help. I am still learning. The blue one does head off my other chick that people have said is a Australorp Cockerel and another speckled one that is starting to get red waddles and comb.

 

[MrsBachbach]

Sorry, I just can't read Pierre Part without thinking about Troy Landry. I would love to see that area. The SC coast is beautiful, but LA is totally different. I think I would go there just for the food.

Yep. Husband said everybody knows everybody down there (one guy couldn't even understand what my husband was saying, and they both speak english!), water was sitting right outside the back door where he stayed and I can tell you from experience, the food is delicious. Troy reminds me so much of my grandfather and fishing the bayous with him. I don't ever remember eating anything at my grandmothers house that came from the store, like beef or pork or chicken. Big bowls of fish looking at you sitting on the kitchen counter, squirrels getting their pj's pulled off, deer hanging from the backyard swingset being cleaned, crawfishing in the Atchafalaya basin (and getting as red as a boiled one!) crabbing with string and chicken necks in the canals, picking plums from the fruit trees, going blackberry and mayapple hunting at the camp, muscadine wine fermenting on the back porch, watching my uncles taxidermy geese and such and camping out at Papa's while the hurricanes blow through are just some of many memories growing up down there. Lot's of good memories. Don't miss the mosquitoes or humidity though. Those are brutal.

 

[MrsBachbach]

Oh I was hoping that they would be Ameraucanas. Thanks for the help. Is it to early to tell sex?

Where did you get them? That would be more telling as to whether they are Ameraucana or EE's. And were you told what color you would be getting? I ask because I raise some of them and it is not unusual to see them lose their muffs at around six weeks of age when they molt. I have one that did and now has a beautiful muff and beard. That one looks like the color lavender, the top picture is suspect, doesn't look like a wheaten, but might be a buff, but I don't know enough about buffs to say one way or another. I see the backs of others in your pictures but can't tell anything other than it looks like a blue bird and a black bird.