Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[pips&peeps]

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Who did you get the brown red hatchingeggs from? Are they bantam or LF???

My Brown Reds are bantams and they are my birds that I get from jerryse. They have stopped laying for a couple days and I'm going to choke them!! I'm hoping to get my first chicks the 2nd of May. Then I'll have some more due the 9th.

EDIT: I can post pics if you want. They are by no means perfect but they are definatley a starting point.

Yes, post them. I haven't seen any bantam pictures except at the ABC site.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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When your waiting for something it seems like it takes forever to get here! I can't wait to see the results!

My blacks are going in next week- one Garner and one Pips. The Garner one JUST laid her first 2 eggs and she's a year old.

The Pips one was molting when I got her, and then she got caught in the goose nest so I don't think she'll be giving me eggs anytime soon. PTSD.

They had been in with my Orloffs, but I think I'm going to give up on that for now. Anybody need a pair....

 

[TK Poultry]

pips&peeps :

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My Brown Reds are bantams and they are my birds that I get from jerryse. They have stopped laying for a couple days and I'm going to choke them!! I'm hoping to get my first chicks the 2nd of May. Then I'll have some more due the 9th.

EDIT: I can post pics if you want. They are by no means perfect but they are definatley a starting point.

Yes, post them. I haven't seen any bantam pictures except at the ABC site.​

Ok I'm going to go feed anyway right now so let me go take some new ones.

 

[EweSheep]

Can anyone tell me how a Black Ameraucana pullet lays a light green egg after many generationed parentage? I bought her from a breeder well known in ABC. She is one lovely gal and friendly as well. However she is a naughty girl for starting to catch on to my older pullets of egg eating....gotta nip it in the bud! I am trying to understand how one would get a green egg layer when you do have many generations of blue egg layers or roos coming off from blue egg layers. She was shown last year, did well and then when she started laying, it was major disappointment of her breeder. I like her just fine!

If I breed her to an Amerc roo, would all of her offsprings would have blue eggs or would they give me a green egg laying machine?

She is going to go with the Olive Egger breeding, either an Amerc roo OR Welsummer Roo. I am undecided which breed of roo I will have in the fall.

 

[TK Poultry]

Sorry that they are wet chickens it started raining again. We have been on a 5 or 6 day constant rain stretch. I'm hoping it will stop soon.... my poor Silkies look terrible!

you can see the butt of my very wet Silkie cockerel! Sorry they are beardless too. The one hen with a beard likes to think that no one else needs one! The type on my cockerel isn't great either but the hens look pretty good but the on hen has a slight pinched tail. The cockerel has ok color IMO but the hens are lacking.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Oh, I love the little roo.

He is so cute!

I love the Brown Red variety!

 

[TK Poultry]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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Oh, I love the little roo.

He is so cute!

I love the Brown Red variety!

Thanks I wish the pictures were better but its raining...​

 

[just2rosey]

Holy Cow! I just won Wayne Meredith eggs on an auction!!

I got them for a steal!

We will be getting Black and Blue hatching eggs.

 

[poodlepill]

I would love some Splash Ameraucana chicks, anyone in the Southern Illinois area I could hook up with

Or I think I have a starting to go broody BR (she's puffy and clucky but not really fully sitting) Maybe I could get some eggs near by but I"d have to time it with broody. I dont really want to ask on Craigs List for Ameraucana's as I am afraid I would get EE's and I dont trust my knowedge good enough so I thought I'd start here.

 

[jeremy]

So I had 8 total chicks from my WM eggs hatch, 2 were very frail and passed only hours after making it out of the egg. The 6 remaining chicks are FAT little babies who are vigorously running around the brooder.

My dilemma is this- 3 more eggs have pipped and started to zip, one egg has pipped but not zipped yet. This all happened yesterday, so far none have made it out yet and I fear they may be shrink wrapped now. I know at least two are still very much alive as I can hear them cheeping and see their little bodies wiggling in the shell.

That said, what should I do? Do I intervene now and help these little ones out? Or is this natural selection and this is nature's way of telling me not to use those chicks for potential breeding in the future? Would I be promoting weak genes in my flock by stepping in and hatching the chicks now?

For those of you who have been breeding for years and years, what would you do?

BTW, today is day 24 for these little guys, I'm sure they are exhausted.

Thoughts?