Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Chicken Jack]

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Are you talking about the Garner's? I have a lovely wheaten roo from them, and there is a guy in Sweetwater TN that also has a lot of their stock. I'm waiting on chicks from him. From the pics- they look like great birds. I haven't seen their eggs yet- so that would be where I would start.

Yes, I am. He emailed me back and agreed for me to visit them. Since I'm headed through Ringold, GA on my way to my folks home west of Atlanta, I thought I'd drop in and see his operation. Thank you so much for confirming the quality of Mr. Garner's flock. I appreciate hearing there are satisfied customers out there! Who is the guy in Sweetwater? I do go to Knoxville from time to time so I could check him out to on another visit. Thanks again.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Are you talking about the Garner's? I have a lovely wheaten roo from them, and there is a guy in Sweetwater TN that also has a lot of their stock. I'm waiting on chicks from him. From the pics- they look like great birds. I haven't seen their eggs yet- so that would be where I would start.

Yes, I am. He emailed me back and agreed for me to visit them. Since I'm headed through Ringold, GA on my way to my folks home west of Atlanta, I thought I'd drop in and see his operation. Thank you so much for confirming the quality of Mr. Garner's flock. I appreciate hearing there are satisfied customers out there! Who is the guy in Sweetwater? I do go to Knoxville from time to time so I could check him out to on another visit. Thanks again.

The guy in Sweetwater has a continual ad on the Knoxville Craigslist. Can't remember his email right now- but he'll put you on a list for straight run chicks, and occasionally he sells trios of young adults too. Great way to get an instant flock! Don't forget to diversify your breeders though. You want to have more than one bloodline.

 

[halo]

Do those lavenders have single combs?

 

[Goose and Fig]

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I thought that too- but they sure are cute. The one crazy bearded one almost looks like an araucana.

 

[pips&peeps]

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I bought some chicks from them last year to see what he had to offer; I ended up getting rid of all of them. (10 of the 15 were cockerels) One of my pullets was clean faced and another started laying a green egg, which meant to me "don't keep the males!"

They seemed to be nice quality birds, but I didn't want to take a chance with the egg color. This could have been a fluke with my bird, because sometimes breeding for blue eggs doesn't always turn out the way we expect.

If you end up wanting to get birds from them, I would recommend starting with hatching eggs and making sure you only get blue eggs. It won't guarantee the hens weren't bred by a green egg gene carrying rooster, but it will be better than not knowing what color egg they hatched from.

 

[pips&peeps]

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I thought that too- but they sure are cute. The one crazy bearded one almost looks like an araucana.

All four of them look like it to me too. I have had a couple pop out with single combs too.

We have to remember these are still project birds and odd things are going to pop out for another couple breeding seasons. The main thing is to cull these birds ruthlessly, and try to find out which birds are throwing this.

 

[chicken stalker]

Yes people seem to forget that lavenders are still project birds. My originals came from Harry Shaffer last year. I've had some anomalies hatch out occasionally but that's where you select for quality and perpetuate the good genes. Out of my last hatch of lavs 2 of them had single combs so they are being sold. It's important to weed out the anomalies so when they finally get accepted the lines are quality show birds. I have lavs, blacks and wheaties coming from John Blehm in a couple weeks. I can't wait! Next years lines should be really nice!!

 

[jeremy]

I'm going to pick up 3 White Ameraucana pullets this evening! They're about 4 1/2 months old. The woman whom I am picking them up from said they should start laying in another 4-6 weeks, is this correct? I've never had Ameraucanas before this year so I don't know when to expect them to reach POL. I've heard it's a bit later than some other breeds?

Also, I should continue to feed these chicks a starter chick feed until they reach POL, then switch them to a layer feed, correct?

Thanks! Pictures will be posted tomorrow, I promise. I want to know what y'all think!

 

[pips&peeps]

In my experience ameraucanas don't lay until 24-28 weeks. I feed mine flock raiser until they start to lay.

Did you find out who's lines they are??? Make sure they are real ameraucanas and not a strain of white ee's........ (no yellow beaks or green legs)

 

[jeremy]

pips&peeps :

In my experience ameraucanas don't lay until 24-28 weeks. I feed mine flock raiser until they start to lay.

Did you find out who's lines they are??? Make sure they are real ameraucanas and not a strain of white ee's........ (no yellow beaks or green legs)

They should have blue/slate legs and black/horn beaks, right Jean?

As far as knowing who the originators are, she did not get back to me on that subject. It made me question the validity of her birds a bit... I'm going to give them a good look over before I hand her the cash this evening, plus I plan on asking the question again, directly. So we'll see!​