Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Miss Ameraucana]

My rooster and pullet started dull, and I thought it would be an almost lavender look, but as they get older, the darker feathers are coming in and I love them. It really makes his tail stand out

scflock is this your splash cockerel To breed to your splash pullet?He sure is a handsome fella

 

[Ravynscroft]

Yeah I said the same thing..... We just finished our 4th coop! It's addictive for sure.

Ah, I remember when I finished my 4th coop... that was many coops ago...

RavynFallen I completely agree with you. Honesty and integrity are everything! If we don't have that we have nothing. There r so many dishonest people in the world. And they just want to turn a buck, even at the cost of an animal that is rare per say or has a small gene pool to start with.
I also love Old English Game bantams! I have four of them and read that they are getting harder and harder to find...? they are so sweet and precious.
When I get my babies this Spring Ameraucanas maybe you can tell me what you think! If u wouldn't mind teaching a newbie a thing or two.You seem very knowledgeable, and I would really love your opinions on them. I want to hear the bad too! Even if the bad outweighs the good! I really want to learn all I can!

Why, thank you... I just research, read a ton, ask questions and learn as much as I can, lol... am always happy to help or add opinion, just like many others here...

 

[Saris]

@CGilbert

Have you checked the Ameraucana Breeders directory to see if anyone has hatching eggs of buff? You could hatch your own roo.

 

[AuntNomi]

Luckily for me (and annoyingly) my budget is whatever I earn from the chickens after buying all their feed.

I'm a stay at home mom of 4 and my husband is a full time student and runs his business making e-cig fluid so it's not easy to get a bunch of coops yet. Someday when we have land and our kids are older.

We actually have only spent $86 on the coops all together. I ended up getting 6 rolls of hardware cloth 50 ft each for $30 on a local swap page. My son brings home everything and anything his job is trashing, which is usually new but extra and not needed. So it has been easy and cheap for us.

 

[Saris]

We actually have only spent $86 on the coops all together.  I ended up getting 6 rolls of hardware cloth 50 ft each for $30 on a local swap page. My son brings home everything and anything his job is trashing, which is usually new but extra and not needed. So it has been easy and cheap for us.

That's awesome. We have a pallet that we will try and do something with and I'm browsing craigslist for free stuff. Hopefully a nice doghouse.

 

[MrsBachbach]

That's awesome. We have a pallet that we will try and do something with and I'm browsing craigslist for free stuff. Hopefully a nice doghouse.

You could try googling "chicken tractors". People make some amazing portable chicken tractors out of stuff like pvc pipe, chicken wire and tarps. Easy to move around the yard and materials could be inexpensive. I've seen many, many pictures of different types that people have made.

 

[scflock]

Haha, don't I wish! I'm set up for 12. 11 hens and a rooster, though If I hatch some porcelain d'Uccles I may have to invest in a second little coop.

Yeah I said the same thing..... We just finished our 4th coop! It's addictive for sure.

I started out with one coop and run! Then it went to two! Then I got golden pheasants and they had to have a set up! I need one more this spring! I think my rabbit needs a big pen then if something happens to him! I will have another pen! lol

7 years ago my wife and I were buying plants for the garden the week before Easter. Those little chicks were so cute, so we bought 4 Buff Orpingtons to play with. Over the next couple of years we added more laying hens, and they eventually outgrew their coop. When I built a bigger coop, that's when my wife decided she wanted silkies. Thats when exponents were introduced into chicken math. Now there are roughly 130 chickens, 7 pens, a new pen is needed to divide the new AM roosters, and 23 eggs are in lockdown...

 

[scflock]

scflock is this your splash cockerel To breed to your splash pullet?He sure is a handsome fella

I will actually separate the 2 splash and create new splash by breeding him to some of my blue pullets. Ravyn told me that Paul doesn't like to continuously mate splash to splash because it could lighten the color, and that makes sense to me

 

[scflock]

That's awesome. We have a pallet that we will try and do something with and I'm browsing craigslist for free stuff. Hopefully a nice doghouse.

I hit a goldmine on free lumber 5 miles from my house. Check and see if there are any vinyl or aluminum siding dealers near you. Siding ships in crates put together with 2x4s that are held together with 15ft long 3 and 5 inch slats. They leave them by the dumpster and it's first come, first serve. I have loaded my F250 and trailer 4 times, and they are much easier to break down than pallets. I get so much free lumber that I started building and selling my own coops

 

[Miss Ameraucana]

I will actually separate the 2 splash and create new splash by breeding him to some of my blue pullets. Ravyn told me that Paul doesn't like to continuously mate splash to splash because it could lighten the color, and that makes sense to me

that does make sense. i wanted to order splash too but figured i could make splash from blues, then hopefully ravyn will help me out through pics on which of my birds are the best. i sure do hope i get a good average on straight run. odds say 50/50 but from what i have read off the ABC forum its been "the year of the cockerel" almost sounds ominous!