Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[samouw]

You're the best, Susan!! And I can see that list being long with your quality! Just don't beat the poor people off with a stick too hard, lol...

Shoot! with my strength level right now, I couldn't beat off a mouse with a match stick!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Shoot!  with my strength level right now, I couldn't beat off a mouse with a match stick!

I won't tell the mice if you don't! lol...

 

[samouw]

I won't tell the mice if you don't! lol...

Please don't. I have them all buffaloed now.

 

[BackyardMarana]

Cam anyone tell me about the quality on this hen ,thank you

 

[BackyardMarana]

That picture is not the best ,but I can post more pictures if needed

 

[FowlStuff]

The 2016 Ameraucana National Meet, last weekend, in Lebanon, Indiana was "epic" as they say. Members came from far east as South Carolina, as far west as Colorado, as far south as Texas and as far north as Michigan's U.P. A complete meet report will be in our next Ameraucana Newsletter, due around the 1st of December. We'll also announce the location of our 2017 Ameraucana National Meet by then so you can make plans early to attend.

 

[samouw]

Cam anyone tell me about the quality on this hen ,thank you

Is this a bantam?

 

[bruceha2000]

I was in a local feed store and they got baby chicks in while I was there. I asked what kind of chicks they were and they said Ameraucana. I told her if they came from a hatchery, they are probably Easter Eggers. She got mad and said they sold them as Ameraucana and they lay green and blue eggs and she is not going to get into it with me. IMO the hatcheries are to blame more than the store owners who just buy and sell chicks. While the store owner may honestly not know. The hatchery should know. It's their business to know. It's misrepresentation. I don't understand why they continue to do it knowing those chickens are not Ameraucana.

Yes, the hatcheries hold the primary blame, I don't understand it either. But I don't like the attitude of the store owner. The fact that she said they lay green or blue eggs means she DOES know they aren't Ameraucana (if she even knows the SOP 'features'). Iffn I were to own a store I would sure like to know that I was misled. Might still order the birds from the same place but you can bet the order form for customers and the sign over the chicks would say Easter Egger.

 

[dcba flock]

Yes, the hatcheries hold the primary blame, I don't understand it either. But I don't like the attitude of the store owner. The fact that she said they lay green or blue eggs means she DOES know they aren't Ameraucana (if she even knows the SOP 'features').  Iffn I were to own a store I would sure like to know that I was misled. Might still order the birds from the same place but you can bet the order form for customers and the sign over the chicks would say Easter Egger.

Unfortunately ppl just aren't educated on whether it's the consumer the store owner but obviously the hatcheries are taking advantage of that fact. For backyard flock ppl that want colorful eggs great but misadvertising is stupid. I just received 4 BBS eggs and once you see the difference it in the eggs and the birds it's clear. Nothing like that shiny blue egg...

 

[BackyardMarana]

Is this a bantam?

No she is large fowl