Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[TK Poultry]

Well so I hope everyone is living it up in their spring temps and their ladies that are laying because I woke up this morning to no school and 2 inches of SNOW and ICE!

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

Here's my .02 on egg color and photography.
I am a printer by trade. My job is to make the solid images ( on paper, canvas, plastic etc.) from digital images of pictures and artwork and visa versa. This is my trade. I have been doing it for 40+ years and I am good at it.
From this perspective, I must say:
I have, at my business,many computers but 4 different monitors. Blue shades look different on each one. Each computer will throw it's own blues and each monitor does so more accutely. I regularly have to adjust my equipment.
TK Poultry has the ONLY true way of dealing with color.
The eggs need to be photographed with a scale attatched to the photo taken simultaniously with the subject.
If we all had an egg color chart, that would also work, as each egg picture can be identified by the color chart's letter & number.
Barring that, the chart needs to be part of the picture.
That's the way it works in my field. I'm not a photographer. I'm not a lot of things. But on this narrow subject, I am an expert.

Edited because typing is something I am NOT an expert at.

 

[TK Poultry]

I'm just tired of getting PMs from frustrated newbies saying they don't know how to judge egg colors in pictures. Even if I took a picture with the egg chart at 10a and someone else took it at 4p you could still get a pretty good idea from your egg chart you have laying on your computer desk that you are looking at in person.

 

[jeremy]

Well it sounds like we all need egg charts for Christmas this year!

Could you make that happen madame president?

 

[jeremy]

2 Blue Wheaten Ameraucana eggs went into lockdown last night...

1 already is pipping this morning!!!

It's a bit early, but I'm not that surprised. when I incubated my BWs last year I had a couple early arrivals then too. Hopefully I will be posting chick pictures by this evening!

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

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[jeremy]

I just got a text message, 1 chick zipped and is out, cheeping in the incubator!!!

The other egg that went into lockdown has pipped, I'm hoping when I get home around 4 this afternoon it will have hatched, too.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

I gots two more lavender babies in the hatcher. The third one zipped all most all the way around, but he died.

But two more chickletts!!!

 

[pinkchick]

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Sorry J....I haven't followed for a while......are those babies from any little pullets that I might know??????

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Sorry J....I haven't followed for a while......are those babies from any little pullets that I might know??????

YES!!!!

I have one of their babies in the brooder right now. IT'S GORGEOUS!!! And the 2 in the hatcher. More to come....

And an auction is ending today that will have their babies in it!!!