Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Ivywoods]

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So using chicken math you are actually a teenager

I was a teenager a few years ago, I'm able to buy my own alcohol now.

My grandparents had Cochins, I remember a big Buff one in particular that I called Socks.

What a bunch of KIDS! I was a kid back in the 60's and early 70's. We had some "easter egger" ameraucanas or whatever you wanted to call them back then. I know it had to be before '73, and I'm thinking it may have even been in the late '60's. My mother ordered them. I remember we got some colored eggs from them, but I don't recall whatever happened to them.

 

[PetRock]

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Jeremy,
Which BW roo is this? Is it one of your younger ones? Lemon Drop looks almost exactly like him! I did a double take when I saw the pic. LD crowed his first crow yesterday at almost 23 weeks old. I've been trying to get some good pics of him because it is time to rehome him.

 

[Christie Rhae]

Mypetchicken.com calls them Easter eggers right off. They are actually very informative about the fact that you can only get true ameraucanas from a breeder. I bought Easter eggers from them and always knew what I had. I know mypetchicken is not where the chicks actually come from but their website is pretty accurate. They way they describe Easter eggers makes you want them just cuz they are all different colored chickens. Other hatcheries could describe them that way and every one would still buy them and not be upset later when they realize they were duped.

 

[fowlman01]

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This seems like a good way to approach this problem. I can't see any way we could force hatcheries to stop calling them AM's, but if you could convince them it is in their best interest to call them EE's it may work. Think about contacting them and telling them we will recommend only hatcheries that call them EE's and we will tell people to not use the ones who are lying about what they are selling. They are in business and no business wants negative advertisement. Even if some of them go for it you will be ahead of the game. Let them know that there are 90k subscribers to this site and this is just one place you will run down the people who are misrepresenting the AM's. Since they are lying about what they are selling, they can't do anything about the negative things we say about their hatchery....as long as we just stick to the truth ourselves. I don't think they really care what they call them as long as their sales are good. We can help the ones who are honest and trash the ones who aren't.

Walt

 

[Goose and Fig]

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I remember talking about it here on the thread, but it wasn't me who contacted any hatcheries... at least I don't think it was... or if it was, I don't remember doing it.

I don't remember much from last week though.

Tyler (TK Poultry)

 

[jeremy]

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Jeremy,
Which BW roo is this? Is it one of your younger ones? Lemon Drop looks almost exactly like him! I did a double take when I saw the pic. LD crowed his first crow yesterday at almost 23 weeks old. I've been trying to get some good pics of him because it is time to rehome him.

That's Claude, when he was much younger, honestly probably around the same age as Lemon Drop is right now. I took that picture a few days after I threw him in the pen with the old ladies because he wouldn't stop picking fights with the other cockerels he was living with at the time, he wasn't very happy with me. LOL!

I would love to see updated pictures of both LD and Cosette, has she started to lay yet?

 

[PetRock]

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Jeremy,
Which BW roo is this? Is it one of your younger ones? Lemon Drop looks almost exactly like him! I did a double take when I saw the pic. LD crowed his first crow yesterday at almost 23 weeks old. I've been trying to get some good pics of him because it is time to rehome him.

That's Claude, when he was much younger, honestly probably around the same age as Lemon Drop is right now. I took that picture a few days after I threw him in the pen with the old ladies because he wouldn't stop picking fights with the other cockerels he was living with at the time, he wasn't very happy with me. LOL!

I would love to see updated pictures of both LD and Cosette, has she started to lay yet?

That's exciting to hear that it is Claude. Lemon Drop has the same powder puff fluff in front of his tail. There is hope that he will lose it as he matures! My older hens have pulled his long tail feathers so he is not looking his best right now. Cosette is red in the comb but not laying yet. She is easy to take pics of but her brother is not! I've taken 40 or 50 pics of him in the last couple days and still don't have one that does him justice. I'll see if todays round of pics turns out any better!

 

[fowlman01]

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Jeremy,
Which BW roo is this? Is it one of your younger ones? Lemon Drop looks almost exactly like him! I did a double take when I saw the pic. LD crowed his first crow yesterday at almost 23 weeks old. I've been trying to get some good pics of him because it is time to rehome him.

That's Claude, when he was much younger, honestly probably around the same age as Lemon Drop is right now. I took that picture a few days after I threw him in the pen with the old ladies because he wouldn't stop picking fights with the other cockerels he was living with at the time, he wasn't very happy with me. LOL!

I would love to see updated pictures of both LD and Cosette, has she started to lay yet?

Sometimes keeping one old male with all cockerels (no females in the pen) works out well. Usually the old male will not allow the young males to fight. You have to watch the dynamics for a while though, but it has worked for me through the years.

Walt

 

[fowlman01]

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That's Claude, when he was much younger, honestly probably around the same age as Lemon Drop is right now. I took that picture a few days after I threw him in the pen with the old ladies because he wouldn't stop picking fights with the other cockerels he was living with at the time, he wasn't very happy with me. LOL!

I would love to see updated pictures of both LD and Cosette, has she started to lay yet?

Sometimes keeping one old male with all cockerels (no females in the pen) works out well. Usually the old male will not allow the young males to fight. You have to watch the dynamics for a while though, but it has worked for me through the years.

You would not want to try that with all breeds, especially the Oriental breeds.

Walt

 

[Hens and Roos]

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Sometimes keeping one old male with all cockerels (no females in the pen) works out well. Usually the old male will not allow the young males to fight. You have to watch the dynamics for a while though, but it has worked for me through the years.

You would not want to try that with all breeds, especially the Oriental breeds.

Walt


When you do this, do you end up having the younger ones challenge the older one? Do you add the younger ones in all together?