Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[samouw]

The people that left the Ameraucana Breeders Club are the Alliance, it is not the new name of the old Club since the old Club is still active.

Still active and about to hit 300 members...for the first time in its history!

 

[Sylvester017]

Lost my 3-yr-old sweet girl today (Blue Wheaten - my avatar)

. Took these pics this morning. Vet thinks she was ill quite a while but going about eating/drinking/dust-bathing/foraging with the outdoor flock until she just went uncharacteristically aggressive this past few weeks. He prescribed medicine that made no difference. He put her down for me because she wouldn't eat or drink any more without a lot of coaxing. Not easy diagnosing chicken health since so many maladies mimic the same symptoms. R.I.P. Taffy girl.

 

[Red Banks]

Lost my 3-yr-old sweet girl today (Blue Wheaten - my avatar)

. Took these pics this morning. Vet thinks she was ill quite a while but going about eating/drinking/dust-bathing/foraging with the outdoor flock until she just went uncharacteristically aggressive this past few weeks. He prescribed medicine that made no difference. He put her down for me because she wouldn't eat or drink any more without a lot of coaxing. Not easy diagnosing chicken health since so many maladies mimic the same symptoms. R.I.P. Taffy girl.

So sorry, such a pretty hen.

 

[abbevilleoz]

So sorry, such a pretty hen.

X2

 

[Sylvester017]

So sorry, such a pretty hen.

TY - she's my avatar at 5-mos. I don't have the heart to change the photo yet with that sweet sweet face!

 

[teal29080]

Project Chocolate chickies!!! 10 hatched but I'm only keeping 6, the others are muffless or single combed.

Might I ask so how did you achieve the chocolate color. I been wanting to have some since I saw here with another member. They are beautiful chicks and I hope they work out.

 

[Shaffer]

Just get yourself a small chocolate Orpington bantam or LF. Chocolate is sex linked so a : chocolate orpington cock over a black ameraucana hen will give you = chocolate pullets and black cockerels split chocolate. OR black cock ameraucana over a chocolate orpington hen will give you only black cockerels split chocolate and pullets that are worthless for the project since they will only be pure blacks and will not produce any chocolate offsprings. This is a very simple project for producing chocolate color but you will have to correct leg color, combs, and the production of muffs and beards plus the feathers will be loose from the Orp and need to tighten them up, not to forget egg color as well.

 

[pips&peeps]

There is no point in going through all that. There are already breeders who have chocolates already started. They just need to be continually bred to good quality black birds to improve type and egg color.

You can find chocolate breeders here: http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/docs/breedersdirectory_2015.pdf

If you send me a private message I can also refer you to another site which I cannot list on BYC.

 

[LameyInn7423]

There is no point in going through all that. There are already breeders who have chocolates already started. They just need to be continually bred to good quality black birds to improve type and egg color.

You can find chocolate breeders here: http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/docs/breedersdirectory_2015.pdf

If you send me a private message I can also refer you to another site which I cannot list on BYC.

This is why I appreciate the hard work that the founding members in both clubs have done. I don't have the time, space, or inclination to take 2 different breeds of birds to start my own project. You guys did the hard work so that people like me can enjoy these beautiful birds, and try and keep improving from where we started. AMs are exploding everywhere around me, and more and more people are coming looking for help after 2015. Thank you for the work, advice, and help that I have received from members of both clubs

I also love the polite ways that Junebugga comes up with to let someone know they have EEs. There's a great article in the ABC spring newsletter by someone who went through what so many of us have, going from EEs to AMs

 

[bruceha2000]

Lost my 3-yr-old sweet girl today (Blue Wheaten - my avatar)

. Took these pics this morning. Vet thinks she was ill quite a while but going about eating/drinking/dust-bathing/foraging with the outdoor flock until she just went uncharacteristically aggressive this past few weeks. He prescribed medicine that made no difference. He put her down for me because she wouldn't eat or drink any more without a lot of coaxing. Not easy diagnosing chicken health since so many maladies mimic the same symptoms. R.I.P. Taffy girl.

I'm really sorry Sylvester. I guess maybe the reason she got aggressive is that she was not feeling well. Kind of a protection mode perhaps. Sure would be nice to know what happened to her given 3 is not that old for a chicken.