Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Goose and Fig]

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Ha ha- be careful what you wish for! I wanted a BW roo and now I have 3

I think all I need is a silver, a buff, a splash, and a brown red and I'll have every color ameraucana roo.

 

[TK Poultry]

anyone have any BBS bantams or wheaten/BW/SW bantams for sale this spring?

 

[Hennypen]

Black Ameraucana pullet from Pips and Peeps. I have the black ones for sale but I'm second guessing myself. It's either the black ameraucanas or a different breed I have.

Wheaten Ameraucana rooster:

 

[dinahmoe]

i currently have a blue wheaten pair.i lost one of my hens recently.the girls are the sweetest things.i love them.my question is how is the temperament on the other colors.i am sure it has to do with lineage also becuase i had another line of BW that were not very nice.i like the lavenders and blacks.

here is a picture of my 2 boys.i was going to keep just one but couldn't decide so now i have 2.i may have to start an EE pen with the wheaten boy..lol.
i have only 1 BW hen so i am putting her eggs under anything that goes broody.

 

[TK Poultry]

UGH I'm so frustrated. I have had three different Black bantam roosters in a year and they all turn MEAN! Why is it me? I have a Mottled d'Uccle rooster and a Blue Wheaten Bantam rooster and they are fine. Even though I think sometimes my Blue wheaten roo Rusty should be in the Looney Bin sometimes because he's a nut job but not mean. My 12 year old sister handles him all the time. She does my black rooster Max too but he just attacked me from his cage this evening. They are temporarily living in my brooding/show hutches in my garage while their new homes are under construction. So its very easy for me to pop in and out of the garage to check on them often. Its still pretty cold in there and some of their water freezes a bit. Well I go to stick my hand in their to get Max's waterer and he pecks me and holds on and then spurs me. Luckily the peck and the holding were the worst part because he really doesn't have spurs but it still drew blood. Does this happen with Black roosters. My last black rooster Sampson was so mean that you couldn't even walk by the cage without him trying to spur you. Then the last last rooster was mean too? Why? I have a theory that it is how they were bred orginally, because my Wheatens aren't like that at all! Even my black hens are a bit more aggressive. Any opinions. Am I damaging my roosters minds?

 

[cpartist]

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I've only had one rooster get aggressive like this, a Marans, and it didn't start until he was nearly a year old.
It started by his pecking my hand while feeding. This was shortly after I moved him from a large breeding pen,
to a smaller. A few days later he sort of flogged me when I had my back turned. I say sort of because it was
just a bump. I felt he was testing me, though. While not prepared to keep an aggressive roo around, I decided
to give him a chance as he was a sweetie during adolesence when I've heard this aggression normally
appears...and I know he was not pleased by the move.

I think meeting aggression with aggression would likely worsen the behavior...and he's tough to catch
and carry around. I'm old and slow and he's quick and young

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So I filled a qt spray bottle with half water and half vinegar. The next time he trotted toward me
(don't know if it was with evil intent or not) I opened up with the spray. He stopped, backed off, shook off,
looked to see if ladies were watching (they were

) then put his head down and humbly started
scratching for bugs. For a while I carried that bottle hooked on my waist when his group was out.
If he stepped toward me, I'd only have to raise the bottle to get him to back off.
I suspect the vinegar burned his eyes without actually doing damage, and the smell lingered for days
as a reminder.

That was months ago, and he's not given me trouble since. I don't always carry the bottle anymore,
but will occasionally, just to remind him I'm "locked and loaded"

Something to try before you give up on 'em.

 

[TK Poultry]

hmm thats is very interesting I will definatly give that a try. He was a doll too but I don't know what has happened. They are all in the same type of enviorment and I take care of him just as normal. Maybe its the move. he's not even been in his temporary home a month yet though so I don't know. I'm still wondering about the color aspect though. I thought if he was a lost cause that I would try a blue or a splash just to test my theory a bit.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I have a black ameraucana roo (LF) that is extremely dominant, btu he isn't people agressive at all. Another black roo I have might as well be a hen

The only black roos I've had that were agressive were bantam cochins. The Lf cochin roos are big babies.

Maybe it's just a bantam thing?

 

[cpartist]

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Don't know about the color aspect...I have W/BW...all the boys are a delight! They are not aggressive
to me or the ladies. They help care for babies, show the girls where the nest box is, and sit beside broodies
to keep them company.

The girls, however, are a different story. They are jump on my back friendly, but seem to love DRAMA!
They trash talk to hens in adjoining pens, head bobbin' and chattering until they incite full on attacks
through the wire. They act more like like roos than roos. They ones that are raised together seem to
do fine, other than like to pull tail feathers occasionally, but they have been difficult if not impossible
to integrate, even those of the same age. They will fight like game cocks, and I've had to build smaller
breeding pens to mix these for the results I'm looking for.

Maybe it's just mine

, but it's frustrating to have a pen large enough for 10, with two cockerels
that get along marvelously, and only three pullets....cause their not sharin' the love. It's like watching
middle schoolers with their cliques and drama, while the boys quietly and curiously observe.

I will say that the social interaction of this variety makes them my absolute favorites....
Awesome and entertaining chicken TV!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Yep Tyler, it's the blacks. My black bantam roo was a JERK until I gave him his first bath, I guess all the preening I did on him worked, because he hasn't gone after me since. I'm not fooled though, I see him watching me when I am messing with his ladies. I still don't let my guard down. And the black hens are IN CHARGE - they are much more aggressive with other birds than any of my other breeds or varieties. I wouldn't dare put them with any other birds. I even had one go after a LF Welsummer AND a LF Faverolles cockerel AT THE SAME TIME. They are friendly/timid with people though.