Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

[PrairieChickens]

Actually, this video demonstrates how chicks forage with a broody perfectly. Notice how at the end, one squeezes under the mama hen to get warm. A few minutes later, once it'd warmed up again, it popped out and went back to foraging.

 

[AmazingChickens]

I got caught up in the whole Ameracana, Araucana, EE thing because when I was looking into buying some.  I kept seeing birds that didn't even resemble each other.  Some had ear tufts, some didn't.  Some had tails, some didn't.  Some had tight feathering, some didn't and the colors and patterns varied wildly so I decided to do some research.

What I found, and this may have already been discussed, is the Ameracaunas and Araucanas are both recognized breeds by the APA, have a standard and lay only blue eggs.  If they lay any other colored egg but blue, then they are not Ameracaunas or Araucanas.  They are the mutts (mixed breeds) of the chicken world and were given the distinction of EE (Easter Egger).  The sad part is that the hatcheries and breeders mislead people into spending more money for a 'breed' that isn't recognized by the APA because they are actually a mix of many different breeds.

Ameracaunas lay green eggs that sometimes are a bluefish color

 

[gimmie birdies]

I am going to breed EE and legbar hens with black copper marans roosters to get olive egger chicks.

 

[AmazingChickens]

These are my two bantams, a frizzle roo and a silkie(we are not sure if the silkie is a hen or a rooster) they were sitting in the sun while I was cleaning there cage

 

[chiknhurder]

Ameracaunas lay green eggs that sometimes are a bluefish color

According to the APA, they have to lay blue eggs or they aren't Ameracaunas. I don't make the rules. I'm just telling you what the standard for the breed is. No green eggs.

 

[JaceAgain]

How can you tell?

Compare the coloring to chicks that you have had experience with, for example, I can tell if a chick is an ameracauna because I have 3, and that is what the coloring is, the better variety of chicks you get the more you tell what they are, I don't have much of the same breed of chickens

Right, but it looks identical to my two silver laced wyandottes, so couldnt it be one or the other? Besides a "because I say so", is there a certain feature you know that differentiates the two as chicks?

 

[JaceAgain]

Ameracaunas lay green eggs that sometimes are a bluefish color

According to the APA, they have to lay blue eggs or they aren't Ameracaunas.  I don't make the rules.  I'm just telling you what the standard for the breed is.  No green eggs.

yes this!

 

[chiknhurder]

Right, but it looks identical to my two silver laced wyandottes, so couldnt it be one or the other? Besides a "because I say so", is there a certain feature you know that differentiates the two as chicks?

JaceAgain..... here is an FAQ on Ameracaunas that probably will answer your questions. Good luck.

 

[JaceAgain]

Right, but it looks identical to my two silver laced wyandottes, so couldnt it be one or the other? Besides a "because I say so", is there a certain feature you know that differentiates the two as chicks?

JaceAgain.....   here is an FAQ on Ameracaunas that probably will answer your questions.  Good luck.

I have been reading up on ameracaunas, thanks. Was there anything specifically you wanted to point out? EEs seem to be such a heinz 57 breed that they don't have ant real markers for what they are.

 

[chiknhurder]

I have been reading up on ameracaunas, thanks. Was there anything specifically you wanted to point out? EEs seem to be such a heinz 57 breed that they don't have ant real markers for what they are.

Not really. I thought from what I read you had some questions but maybe you were responding to someone else who had questions. I don't have EE's, Ameracaunas or Araucanas. I have Marans that lay chocolate eggs and everybody knows that chocolate eggs beat Easter eggs all to heck.