Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[pips&peeps]

red is a good background color

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

pips&peeps :

Thats what I use!!!

Your cockerel looks really good! I had a couple nice clean ones like him this year, but that was the only thing they had going for them and they are no longer "with us".

I hope the split male I hatched from you will produce some nice babies, I also ended up with one really nice split pullet too. Both would probably do well in show......

Thanks!

You have any new updated pics of him? I'd like to follow his development if I could, because I'm going to be keeping something black in the male department this go 'round. He looked great last time you posted his pic. There's just something about that beetle green sheen. He also looked like he had a fine, full tail (hooray for tails). If he is not slow feather, that means his sire is Kk which is good news for me. I was beginning to think he was KK. I haven't hatched a fast feather out of his pen yet this season, but maybe I just need to put him back with pure blacks again.​

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

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I like concrete, but our weather has been crap lately so I haven't been able to get any with this batch of eggs. I haven't tried red; I will. Here's concrete:

 

[jeremy]

I feel like taking pictures on pine shavings helps really show the true color of eggs.

Works for me!

 

[pips&peeps]

I was going to take him to Stockton with me, but I went out to look at him and apparently he has had some run ins with the older cockerel out there. So his tail is not so great right now, but I could get some pictures later and send them to you.

I'm down to three cockerels outside, one blue, the split and a very large f2 generation silver project cockerel. I've gone from 308 chickens to 276 in the past two weeks. Need to be down to 150 by the end of the first week of Feb...... NPIP time and I don't want to test more than 30 birds.

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

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This is an EXCELLENT photo. Didn't you do the one in a circle a while back? I like that one very much.

 

[Illia]

I like concrete and in the hand. Usually dull colors like off-white, gray, tan work as well as the flesh tones of the hand. The warm reds and oranges help bring out the blue of the egg.

It's always cloudy or rainy here.

The sun I actually avoid though, as it seriously washes out color and makes eggs appear way too bright or white.

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

pips&peeps :

I was going to take him to Stockton with me, but I went out to look at him and apparently he has had some run ins with the older cockerel out there. So his tail is not so great right now, but I could get some pictures later and send them to you.

I'm down to three cockerels outside, one blue, the split and a very large f2 generation silver project cockerel. I've gone from 308 chickens to 276 in the past two weeks. Need to be down to 150 by the end of the first week of Feb...... NPIP time and I don't want to test more than 30 birds.

Yes we finally got down to our final pens this last weekend. 14 birds total in 3 pens; three are male which are all lavs. I'm going back to a pure black MALE this fall with any fast feather lav females I can isolate this spring. At least that's my game plan.​

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

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That's a good accurate pic, too. Like it.

 

[SD_Paulo]

Just wanted to post a couple pictures of our newest flock members. These are Lavs we ordered thru Crystal Creek.

The little black one has a band aid neck brace His nickname is "flipper" because prior to the neck brace he would keep flipping over when he went to lay down. We didnt think he was going to make it but now he is eating and drinking like the other. Go flipper! ! !