Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[CityGirlintheCountry]

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He is beautiful!

Mine are sweet boys too. After a couple of hateful roosters, I was a little nervous about these guys, but they are good boys! Mine make a strange, funky crow too. It is very unlike the other roosters. Musical is a good way to put it.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I noticed my roosters do more "wing clapping" or whatever you call it- than the other breeds I have. Their crows are different though- one sounds like a banty, and one you can hear a mile away.

 

[jeremy]

My W/BW Ameraucana eggs from pips&peeps are hatching!

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Thanks you! I kept wondering if I was just imagining that unique crow. But after 100 times of hearing it I know it is different. Now if I could only place that western I heard it in LOL!

Citygirl, isn't it nice to not worry when you go into the coop and you can just stand and watch and enjoy instead of always looking around and over your shoulder?

HappyMtn--crackin me up with the mile away crow. I think I have it's brother. Do yours ever have crowing wars where one starts and they all start up? I laugh even harder when the 16 year old comes upstairs all bleary eyed and glares at me. LOL!

Thanks Kathy! I have tried to get excellent stock. Because I love beautiful art and to me a fine bird is art. However I know mine are just the tip of the iceberg. The birds I see on BYC make me happy with their beauty. Yours included! I have seen your pics and you are just waiting to unveil your beauties!!!

He has such gorgeous birds. You know I will need pics of those babies! I am jealous. I have to wait all the way until the middle of June for my John Blehm ones and I am worried something will goof up the hatch! Yours will be half grown by the time I get mine.

 

[Mahonri]

Germaine, that black roo is SPECTACULAR!

 

[cpartist]

My babies are having babies

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I set my own eggs in the bator almost 3 weeks ago. A few days later my Wheaten
pullet Ophelia (Opie) went broody so I gave her some of her own eggs from the bator.
Our baby Mia (just 24 weeks old and has only been laying for a month) would sit on
Opie's eggs whenever Opie took a break. Mia has always been the little copycat. She was
the only chick to hatch under a broody Buff Orp (they were shipped during a heat wave)
and followed her Momma around until I separated them after three months. It was
hilarious to watch. Mama would scratch, Mia would scratch, Mama would preen, Mia
would preen. Mama would look into the next pen, baby Mia would have to look too:

Mama would give me the stink eye, Mia would give me the baby stink eye:

So now Mia has decided she wants to be a Mom also. After Opie kicked her out of the
nest box for several days and Mia stayed in her own box on a golf ball for several days, I
slipped some of her own half incubated eggs under her. She's is sticking like glue to
them, and looking quite pleased

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Baby Mia, all grown up:

I'm going to let them all stay in the pen and raise them together if all goes well.
They have a huge run and a 2 story coop. I'll move mama and babies to the bottom level
after hatch. I just have two other pullets in there as well as Ranger the roo:

Excuse their scraggly beards, beard feathers must be tastier than other feathers

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I think he will be a good baby daddy. When the girls first started laying, and were
dropping eggs in the run, he would sit in the nest box to show 'em where to lay.
When the girls are laying, he will stand next to them and talk encouragingly

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We focus a lot on egg color and body conformation here...just thought I share
another side of this breed....awesome personalties!

 

[Goose and Fig]

HappyMtn--crackin me up with the mile away crow. I think I have it's brother. Do yours ever have crowing wars where one starts and they all start up? I laugh even harder when the 16 year old comes upstairs all bleary eyed and glares at me. LOL!

Oh yeah! Right now our house is 1/4-1/2 mile away from the coops. Every once in a while- if I don't hear the birds, I will go on the porch and crow. It starts a chain reaction and I know all is well

cpartist- that is so cute! Mia is LOVELY!

 

[jeremy]

I HAVE A CHICK!!!

One of my W/BW Ameraucanas pipped last night and when I woke up this morning it was out, walking around the incubator!

What do I do now? It's not dry yet, so I know I'm suppose to leave it in the incubator, how long though? This little baby is early, today is only day 20. None of the other eggs have pipped yet, a lot of them are rocking like crazy. I'll try to get some pictures up soon, unfortunately I've got work today.

What about it food? Does it need to eat? How long can it stay in the incubator? I'm so happy but scared at the same time!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Talk about starting at the top! Is this your first time incubating? You can leave them in there for a day. Leave the little hatched one in to encourage the others. They don't need to eat for the first couple days. Mazeltov!

 

[MrsChickendad]

Leave it in the incubator. They feed off the yolk that they absorbed just prior to hatch, so should be okay for a couple days. It's peeping will help the others hatch, too. Some people wait until the entire hatch is done before moving the babies to the brooder so as not to compromise the remaining pips. If you open the incubator you will lose humidity that the others need to hatch.