Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds


First batch
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A little smaller than I normally set, 28 fit where it's normally 24 or 25, but
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Due date 1/22
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Awsome! I can't wait!
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Awesome! I showed my wife the pic of your blue splash rooster. Her first question was about their demeanor. Our last large rooster was a mean large sex link and she's apprehensive. How are AM roo's in general?
Very laid back. You can't pick them up, but not aggressive at all. I have 9 roosters on the farm, and none are aggressive. I won't tolerate a mean rooster
 
I have been lurking on this thread for quite a while (although I posted my Blue Wheaten cockerel a while back). My ultimate goal is to pick one color to play with. Right now I have a Blue Wheaten cockerel and my plan is to find some hens to match through eggs or chicks.

BUT I have this question that I'm dying to ask about my all time favorite color, the Silvers. Where are they???
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For real though... Why are more people not interested in them? For me it was love at first sight! Are they hard to work with or just not popular? If they were more readily available I would be getting Silvers instead of Wheaten but that is what is mostly available near me.
 
OK, I am confused (again). John's article says both Ameraucana and Araucana were developed from EEs. But the Araucana breed originally came from Chile, no? Or are we now confusing the rumpless tufted blue laying birds imported in the earlier part of the 20th century with some "mutts" that developed from them, then were bred for a specific SOP and are still being called Araucana but are NOT the same as "original" Araucana imported previously? In that case I don't think they should be using the name Araucana (even though the original was never an APA breed) since they are NOT the same. Just adds to the confusion.

I do understand that there were both rumpless tufted and birds that look like what we now call EEs laying blue eggs in the 60's and those interested in both "styles" forked and today's Ameraucanas were developed from the muffed, bearded and tailed birds.

What confused me for a while was that the U.K. call their Ameraucanas as ARAUCANAs with the U.K. birds being crested, muffed, with tails -- while USA Araucanas are ideally tufted (not muffed) with NO tails. It took me almost 3 months to research all the differences - plus add research of the background South American breeds like Olmec, Rapuni, Colloncas, etc that went into the history of Ameraucanas, Araucanas, and EEs, and your head starts spinning. I think it's all these breeds and a dispute of what SOP these birds should have that divided breeders of Ameraucanas and Araucanas a few decades ago?
 
What confused me for a while was that the U.K. call their Ameraucanas as ARAUCANAs with the U.K. birds being crested, muffed, with tails -- while USA Araucanas are ideally tufted (not muffed) with NO tails. It took me almost 3 months to research all the differences - plus add research of the background South American breeds like Olmec, Rapuni, Colloncas, etc that went into the history of Ameraucanas, Araucanas, and EEs, and your head starts spinning. I think it's all these breeds and a dispute of what SOP these birds should have that divided breeders of Ameraucanas and Araucanas a few decades ago?
The Early History of the Ameraucana Breed and Club, by Richard Orr may also be of interest.
http://AmeraucanaAlliance.org/DnLd/Early History by Richard Orr.pdf
 
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I have been lurking on this thread for quite a while (although I posted my Blue Wheaten cockerel a while back).  My ultimate goal is to pick one color to play with.  Right now I have a Blue Wheaten cockerel and my plan is to find some hens to match through eggs or chicks.

BUT I have this question that I'm dying to ask about my all time favorite color, the Silvers.  Where are they??? :gig       

For real though... Why are more people not interested in them?  For me it was love at first sight!  Are they hard to work with or just not popular?  If they were more readily available I would be getting Silvers instead of Wheaten but that is what is mostly available near me. 

I have Silvers and BBS. My BBS are very friendly, the Silvers are quite skittish - maybe that's why they're not as popular? I do have 1 Silver pullet that is friendly but it's due to her being the only egg that hatched, I'm sure. My BBS girls lay more consistently than the Silvers also, the Silver girls average 2 eggs a week and these are my young Silvers!
 

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