Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[fowlman01]

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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?

Anytime you move chickens you should already know who is going to be in the community. Move the one old male in at the same time you put the cockerels into the pen. No one will have an advantage, other than the old male. Obviously you can't use an mean old male. It is hard to impossible to add any birds after you set this up. Yes, the young ones sometimes challenge the old man...but only once. te usually scares the daylights out of them and then they behave.

When the cockerels are mature you have to find another solution, as the cockerels will take turns fighting the old guy until they wear him down. By then they are old enough to cull or rehome. I raise birds with white earlobes, so I can't afford to have my males fighting when they are young...or anytime for that matter.

Walt

 

[Hens and Roos]

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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?

Anytime you move chickens you should already know who is going to be in the community. Move the one old male in at the same time you put the cockerels into the pen. No one will have an advantage, other than the old male. Obviously you can't use an mean old male. It is hard to impossible to add any birds after you set this up. Yes, the young ones sometimes challenge the old man...but only once. te usually scares the daylights out of them and then they behave.

When the cockerels are mature you have to find another solution, as the cockerels will take turns fighting the old guy until they wear him down. By then they are old enough to cull or rehome. I raise birds with white earlobes, so I can't afford to have my males fighting when they are young...or anytime for that matter.

Walt

Okay that is what we have done, we haven't combined any together lately as when the kids took some to fair it changed the order and we ended up having to remove one who had gotten along fine before this. We do have 3 cockerals together as they were raised as chicks together. My DD has a white ear lobed breed too.

 

[seclusionfarms]

Does anyone have any idea what color or sex my ameraucanas are? (hatched close to easter)

Thanks

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Those are some crazy looking Easter Egger roos. I actually hatched some olive eggers that were similar. They were wheaten ameraucana roo over welsummer hens.

 

[Ivywoods]

I would say definitely a rooster.

With the barring I see in some of the feathers on his back, I would also say he is an easter egger. Also, is that white at the tip of the tailfeather in the first picture? It's kind of hard to tell. To me, the closest his coloration would come to any accepted variety would be a wheaten, but it's not quite there, either. Most young wheatens have white beards until they are a little older, at which time they begin to darken more.

When you ask about your ameraucanas, are you also asking about the one in the back in the last picture? I can't see all of the bird, but I can see it has a single comb, which alone would DQ it as an ameraucana.

 

[speckledhen]

Looks male to me. It's not any accepted color of Ameraucana, plus then, there's the single comb I see on one of them, too, so definite Easter Egger. You should post these guys on the Easter Egger thread. They're really cool-looking!

 

[seclusionfarms]

Thanks I appreciate all the help!

 

[Mahonri]

Well, I'm officially done breeding Ameraucanas.

I may keep a few hens for the blue eggs but all the roos have to be gone by Monday evening.

It was fun while it lasted.. .I guess I'll let my membership in the ABC lapse.

I'm just praying that we can keep 20 layers on site. If it's my backyard neighbors, then they are also gone and I'm out of the chicken business for good.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Oh my goodness Mahonri! What happened??

 

[jeremy]

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Oh my goodness Mahonri! What happened??

Yeah, what's up?