Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[cpartist]

Awesome! I have had a few issues with these, not major and will not disclose unless via PM or email in respect to the original breeders,
but they are for the most part very SOP with good egg color. Eggs on the 4th gen are looking more rich and vibrant than their parents.
At this point I want to work on breeding for egg color and size...and think/ hope am to making progress on this. I am also working to get
females with good tail color and males with clean hackles....Hopefully we can work together and trade...they are for sure a work in progess
and need a few dedicated breeders.

All mine have had good muffs/beards...at some point I may have to outcross, but worried about introducing a clean faced gene.

These are ABSOLUTELY my favorite breed

Personality, blue eggs, awesome friendliness...what is not to love

Hopefully we can work together to better the breed/variety

 

[PeasChisGuis]

I'm excited and hope I have fuzzy butts running around when I get home. I have 19 due to hatch today and will be blue or black. I just love these birds they are so friendly.....once they get past the goofy stage.
I was in my chicken pen this AM and a guinea went after one of my splash hens, she immediately flew up into my arm. Luckily I was able to support her (had the feed bucket) she just stayed there looking at me through those huge muffs so I took her over and let her get off on the nesting box away from the guinea.
Just had to share

 

[Ivywoods]

Hello everyone. It's been quite a while since I've been on this thread. Spring is such a busy time, and I had a computer failure.

My ameraucanas are doing great. I have them in two separate brooders, since there is a couple weeks difference in ages. One thing I've noticed is that in the tank with the silvers, the chicks are much more flighty. When I open the top, they all freak and run around like crazy. On the other tank with the blacks and wheatons they are relatively calm. I open the top and they move to the far end and stand there and fairly calmly look at me with a curious look.

Is it the silvers that are the causing the flightyness in the chicks? There are a few black chicks in there, too, but the black chicks in the other tank are not flighty at all.

I'm really liking these wheatons. I didn't order them. They were substituted for the lavenders that I couldn't get. I think I've got 3 roosters and two hens in the weaties. I've got one buff "packing peanut." Hope it's a hen, but I can't tell.

Today I'm going to go finish securing the grow out pen for these guys. I've got it enclosed, but I need to finish it up a bit and put their shelter in there for them.

 

[dak]

I'm raising my Blacks with Cochins and Lavenders Ams. My Blacks seem to stay calmer because of it. I don't think the Blacks are as flighty as the Sivers, but compared to Lavs and Cochins, they are.

 

[knjinnm]

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Hi,
What do you mean by "tanK"?

 

[cheryl98117]

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Thank you again!
I was so bumbed out when I was told that I should get another cockeral from a different line. As the boy I got from you is just so sweet, big, and heavy. I dont dare make a judgment on his color yet, as I sware he changes daily! And he has the biggest beard and muffs I have seen on a young one yet! I love these birds personalities, very inquisitive, and friendly.

I went out to get a picture or two of the cockeral, but wouldnt you know it, as soon as I go to take the picture the battery dies in my camera!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Welcome back!

Out of all the Ameraucana chicks I've reared (frankly, out of ALL the chicks I've reared to date)...silvers have been the flightiest, no matter what other breed they were raised around. They are also the ONLY birds I have clipped wings on due to their flightiness. I could see how the personalities, or fear that the Silvers display could rub off on the other chicks they are brooded with and make them go bonkers, too. Maybe their panic sends the others into a panic.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Hi,
What do you mean by "tanK"?

Everytime I see your avatar I drool over that Dale Chihuly piece!!!

 

[Shaffer]

Muggsmagee,
Thanks for point out the Dale Chihuly piece. Very nice.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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The Willy Wonka of glass art. I love what him and his team create!