Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[bruceha2000]

My BBS girls are around 26 weeks. They just started squatting. How long do you think it will be?
I have a rooster from the same group.
I would like to put him with the hens and hatch a few. At what point will he be able to fertilize?

I can only venture an answer to the first question. My 2012 chicks all squatted about 5 days before their first egg. My 2015 chicks were broody raised, NONE of them squat for me but I did see some of them looking at the nest boxes and hitting the oyster shell feeder about a week prior.

 

[chickenmomma16]

Has anyone had experience with bleed through on the chest and thigh area on Blue Wheatens? Was it easy to clean up? Here are more specific pictures:

 

[abbevilleoz]

Has anyone wrote a Complete Guide to the Ameraucana yet? I can see I've got a lot to learn.

 

[abbevilleoz]

My blue group. The roo is the best I had out of 3 and I think his tail may be set too high, but I don't show but I do want good quality birds. These are also PSmith birds.

They are beautiful

 

[Catandherchicks]

My blue group. The roo is the best I had out of 3 and I think his tail may be set too high, but I don't show but I do want good quality birds. These are also PSmith birds.

Oh my! I just had an attack of chicken envy. They're beauties.

 

[pips&peeps]

The ameraucana breeders club has all that information also. You can visit us here: http://ameraucana.org/

 

[pips&peeps]

Has anyone had experience with bleed through on the chest and thigh area on Blue Wheatens? Was it easy to clean up? Here are more specific pictures:

It is common for blue wheatens to have leakage or ticking. Do you have a standard?

 

[Renee97038]

My blue wheaten cockerel is 6 months old with a flock of 9 pullets/hens, same age. He has been breeding them for a month now and I know there is a learning curve. But, he grabs them so roughly on the neck and then pecks their comb and I see blood smears on the feeder so I know the poor girls are hurting. What do you all do, separate cockerels in their own pen and only put them with the flock when you want to hatch chicks?

 

[chickenmomma16]

It is common for blue wheatens to have leakage or ticking.  Do you have a standard?

Yes, he is a standard LF. Is that what you ment?

 

[CGilbert]

My blue wheaten cockerel is 6 months old with a flock of 9 pullets/hens, same age. He has been breeding them for a month now and I know there is a learning curve. But, he grabs them so roughly on the neck and then pecks their comb and I see blood smears on the feeder so I know the poor girls are hurting. What do you all do, separate cockerels in their own pen and only put them with the flock when you want to hatch chicks?

With my current cock, when he started mating, he picked on one girl horribly. I separated him into the "Bachelor pad" for about a month. Then I moved him into a pen with an older hen that had previously kept him in check. When he was introduced back into the main coop, he was much improved.