Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[cackleberrycoop]

pips&peeps, are you coming to the Hamilton MT poultry show again this May?

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Pictures....when it drys off. I'll take pictures tonight/tomorrow when I make up the brooder.

 

[Ivywoods]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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Pictures....when it drys off. I'll take pictures tonight/tomorrow when I make up the brooder.​

Jeremy-LOVE the picture... The caption is great, too!

Mrs. F-P-Best of luck with all of them. I love the lavenders.

I got some chicks in this morning. These were to replace the LF silver ameraucanas that died in shipping. They arrived over a whole day sooner than the ones before. They were all alive, not stressed, and they have started eating much quicker than the first batch. We will see if I get any pasty butts with this group, but I am convinced already that they are getting a better start due to less stress in shipping.

Some of the chicks were "packing peanuts" so I do have a couple with toe deformities. One is very slight. I have it taped between two spot bandaids to see if I can get it to straighten out. The other one has a foot that bends backward instead of forward. I'm not sure if I should try to fix it, or if it would be better to cull it. I would have a hard time doing that. I'm thinking I can get some little "L" shaped item for a boot and secure the foot like that. I can easily bend the foot forward, but it just doesn't stay that way.

 

[pips&peeps]

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Yep, wouldn't miss it.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Pictures....when it drys off. I'll take pictures tonight/tomorrow when I make up the brooder.

Jeremy-LOVE the picture... The caption is great, too!

Mrs. F-P-Best of luck with all of them. I love the lavenders.

I got some chicks in this morning. These were to replace the LF silver ameraucanas that died in shipping. They arrived over a whole day sooner than the ones before. They were all alive, not stressed, and they have started eating much quicker than the first batch. We will see if I get any pasty butts with this group, but I am convinced already that they are getting a better start due to less stress in shipping.

Some of the chicks were "packing peanuts" so I do have a couple with toe deformities. One is very slight. I have it taped between two spot bandaids to see if I can get it to straighten out. The other one has a foot that bends backward instead of forward. I'm not sure if I should try to fix it, or if it would be better to cull it. I would have a hard time doing that. I'm thinking I can get some little "L" shaped item for a boot and secure the foot like that. I can easily bend the foot forward, but it just doesn't stay that way.

Glad you got your replacements

Poor lil silvers!
I have a wheaten hen with a bad foot- happened during incubation. Garner's were surprised that I wanted her, but she was to be my first Meredith bird and boy does she lay a pretty egg! I'd never cull over something that wasn't genetic, unless it was to end suffering of some kind.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I forgot about my story I wanted to share. I've had a broody lav and some babies in the house for a week or so. It was working out fine until I moved some new chicks to a brooder near her. She kept jumping into the brooder scaring the bejeebus out of the chicks, so I decided it was time to go back to the lav pen. 2 minutes went by and I felt so guilty I decided to try and give her 2 of the chicks out there. Wouldn't you know- as soon as I put the chicks in the 2 big lav roos came over, glanced at the babies, and proceeded to show them where the goodies are. Then the other hens joined in too

I love these birds more every day.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Pictures....when it drys off. I'll take pictures tonight/tomorrow when I make up the brooder.

Jeremy-LOVE the picture... The caption is great, too!

Mrs. F-P-Best of luck with all of them. I love the lavenders.

I got some chicks in this morning. These were to replace the LF silver ameraucanas that died in shipping. They arrived over a whole day sooner than the ones before. They were all alive, not stressed, and they have started eating much quicker than the first batch. We will see if I get any pasty butts with this group, but I am convinced already that they are getting a better start due to less stress in shipping.

Some of the chicks were "packing peanuts" so I do have a couple with toe deformities. One is very slight. I have it taped between two spot bandaids to see if I can get it to straighten out. The other one has a foot that bends backward instead of forward. I'm not sure if I should try to fix it, or if it would be better to cull it. I would have a hard time doing that. I'm thinking I can get some little "L" shaped item for a boot and secure the foot like that. I can easily bend the foot forward, but it just doesn't stay that way.

Another one just popped out and I have 11 pips!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Here's a pic of my black/lavender split cockerel that I'm keeping to grow out. Not taking full body shots of him because he's still in the young goofy stage, but I love him, and got at least one decent shot of him yesterday. He wasn't thrilled that I was holding him, but whatever...lol.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

pips&peeps :

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Yep, wouldn't miss it.

Good news indeed. I can't wait to see your show birds.

So..... you wouldn't happen to be bringing a wheaten, blue wheaten or blue Ameraucana rooster to sell, would you?​

 

[Ivywoods]

Well I did it! My chick with the backward foot now has his orthopedic appliance in place. I had been trying to decide what to do, when someone sent me an email with a link to the video of the dog, "Skidboot."

http://silverandgoldandthee.net/V/Sk.html

That was it. I decided that was my sign to fix the little foot.

I cut a right angle plastic splint out of a clear lid off of a bottle. I taped it to his leg with coach's tape and a little vet wrap. It was not easy. His little foot kept slipping this way and that, before I could get it secured. I had my hubby help hold the chick, and we both have big hands, and it was hard for four big hands to get into such a small area around the chick's foot.

I'd take pictures, but I am SO SLOW at loading, and time is short today. Hopefully later. I don't think I will need to leave the boot on for too many days. It seemed like he was getting the foot straightened out a little bit on his own, but was sticking it out sideways. Hopefully this will work.

My other chick that I treated with the spot bandaids on the crooked toe is running around like crazy. He keeps soaking his foot in the water fount, though, so I'm definitely going to have to get some more spot bandaids and change them every day.

So now I have my own FLIPPER chick, and the other one I will name.........

You guessed it........

Skidboot!