Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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Thank you for clarifying. I will get more pics and especially of the back end tomorrow. Thank you!

 

[Goose and Fig]

Can somebody please assure me that I am not losing my mind?
Is it possible that myself, and another girl that had some of my project eggs (cuckoo split for lav roo over black and lavender hens) both just hatched blue chicks?

I have had blue marans and even cochin chicks that looked black at hatch, but never the other way around. I have them in with black orps and they are not the same color. Any idea what could be happening here? Can the cuckoo dilute the black chick down like that?

 

[Hennypen]

Have fun. Let us know when you get it figured out.

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[jeremy]

Can somebody please assure me that I am not losing my mind?
Is it possible that myself, and another girl that had some of my project eggs (cuckoo split for lav roo over black and lavender hens) both just hatched blue chicks?

I have had blue marans and even cochin chicks that looked black at hatch, but never the other way around. I have them in with black orps and they are not the same color. Any idea what could be happening here? Can the cuckoo dilute the black chick down like that?

It's probably due to the cuckooing that the chick down appears lighter, more smokey like Blues typically do. Unless one of your Blacks is actually a very, very dark Blue. I feel like you would notice that though. Pictures!

 

[elizmartin]

The tornados last April took out the whole top of the mountain adjacent to me. Koch foods had several chicken barns there, so there were leghorns everywhere. They couldn't put them back because they were "contaminated" by the fresh air and sunshine..

Thankyou for explaining, both very tragic and comical at the same time. To think of all those chickens now having to fend for themselves or being captured and utilized somehow. Am thinking that because of the way they are raised their immune systems would be compromised that Koch foods didn't want to take the chance that the chickens could have caught something and bite them in the rear later at the consumer level...I do hope they tried to do something with their wayfaring poultry......eliz

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

I have not.

Has anyone else from the Ameraucana Breeders club gotten cold calls from "Chickens" magazine about advertising their Lavenders? I got a strange message on my answering machine a couple days ago. They said "lavenders", not lavender Ameraucanas.

 

[elizmartin]

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Thank you, guys! I'm betting the folks here will jump right on this. Let's educate the masses ....

Jean asked that Ideal stop using the Ameraucana name on their Easter Eggers in the second post of the thread that is linked above. A phone number is posted on the thread, maybe calls made to that number could let them know that many Ameraucana breeders would like to see a little more truth in advertising when it comes to the lineage of their "Ameraucanas".

Hi Folks, Noticed in the Cackle catalog that i just received that they call theirs "Easter Egg Chicken"...ors, why there is a difference with the Araucana & EE, why we like them, and what to think about when making a choice.
eliz

sorry for the repeated post......e

 

[elizmartin]

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Thank you, guys! I'm betting the folks here will jump right on this. Let's educate the masses ....

Jean asked that Ideal stop using the Ameraucana name on their Easter Eggers in the second post of the thread that is linked above. A phone number is posted on the thread, maybe calls made to that number could let them know that many Ameraucana breeders would like to see a little more truth in advertising when it comes to the lineage of their "Ameraucanas".

Hi Folks, Noticed in the Cackle catalog that i just received that they call theirs "Easter Egg Chicken".....then in their description detail origin and difference between Araucana and Ameraucana and that their breeding goal is for the Easter Egg Chicken with full beards and tails to produce chickens with a wide variety of colors, patterns, combinations of eggs. ( shell colors). Not offering specific color varieties. Any other hatchery with this labeling issue?

I agree with Jean so am not arguing the principal but playing devils advocate only and not a breeder as most of you are.......as a breed they are still considered an Ameraucana by definition , thou should never be labeled without the EE because they don't breed true, but are technically bred EE to EE, not EE and another breed or mix of chickens thou that probably sometimes happens. So in a sense its another variety of, rather than the breed itself. Another example of education and proper labeling.
I apologize that i don't get much time to read the poultry related magazines as i would like, but a repeat article that i think would be interesting especially in the newby periodicals would be about the Ameraucana varieties and colors, why there is a difference with the Araucana & EE, why we like them, and what to think about when making a choice.
eliz

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Ok- I don't know if you can see the difference in pictures, but in person it certainly looks blue.


And here on the lower left, next to black chicks.

 

[Kelly G]

This argument that goes on here about EE vs Ameraucana is so completely tiresome and uninteresting. There are many German Shepherds, Labradors, Chihuahuas, etc. registered each year - many, MANY are no closer to the breed standard than EE are to Ameraucanas, yet people still call them German Shepherds.

What someone calls the chickens in their back yards does not affect what I have in my back yard.

*yawn*

What else can we think/talk about?