Bantam Ameraucana Thread!

[kjscortez]

Where are you located in Texas? Our hens are on strike and not laying well right now. We have quite a few Bantam Ameraucanas in the grow out pens now. I hope to go through them in the next few weeks and get our show string selected. After that, we should have some juvenile pairs and/or trios for sale.

 
Thanks,

E Haire
Poultry 2XL
Arp, Texas

I sent you a private message.
Thank you!!

 

[CatMom]

@xlboergoats
Hello! Is it too late for bantam hatching eggs from you guys? I tried looking on eBay without any luck.
(I'm in Texas, too)

I got some good ones from a woman in Kentucky just a month ago now. There aren't a lot of folks listing them on eBay, and they seem to list as buy-it-now, which means that the listing vanishes almost as soon as it is put up sometimes. I think you just have to (ahem) "chicken-hawk" your eBay search.
Best of luck! My little littles were hatched by a broody Bantam Wyandotte, she got 7 out of 12 hatched out. They are 3 weeks old today and super healthy, growing like crazy.

 

[pips&peeps]

http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/docs/breedersdirectory_2015.pdf

 

[CatMom]

Some pics of my littles, hatched by a bantam Wyandotte 3 weeks ago. I'm not sure but I think there might be a lot of blue wheaten going on in there. Any observations would be welcome, this is my 1st time raising chicks... I'm hoping for all pullets; any idea when I should be able to tell?

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Some pics of my littles, hatched by a bantam Wyandotte 3 weeks ago. I'm not sure but I think there might be a lot of blue wheaten going on in there. Any observations would be welcome, this is my 1st time raising chicks... I'm hoping for all pullets; any idea when I should be able to tell?

Yours look quite similar to how mine did at that age. I need to get some updated pictures. They are looking quite pretty, with varying blues and reds in the patterns. I hatched 9/12 and two are looking like cockerels so I'm happy.

 

[CatMom]

Thanks for the input @SunHwaKwon! I got a couple of pics of the parent flock from the breeder and her roosters both appear to be blue wheaten, one seems pretty close to standard, the other is very pretty but his color pattern is a little strange. The hens appear to be wheaten &/or blue wheaten (it's so hard to tell!),and I think there is also a blue hen in there, but my babies were 4 yellow/2 chipmunk at hatch, so no black or blues straight out of the shell.
I'm excited to see what they turn out to look like.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Here are some pictures of the chicks that I took today. The cheeks have lost their puffiness but I am thinking once their heads feather they will come back. They are 5 1/2 weeks old.























I am going to have a hard time picking which ones to keep.

 

[pips&peeps]

Those are not ameraucanas, they are easter eggers. Ameraucanas have white skin.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Something weird is going on. I just went and looked at the pictures of the parents from the breeder and they have grayish white legs. I am going to have to contact him.

 

[jerryse]

Something weird is going on. I just went and looked at the pictures of the parents from the breeder and they have grayish white legs. I am going to have to contact him.

Yellow skin is recessive . Your breeder probably does not know he has Easter Eggers . May even get defensive and insist he has Ameraucana . Happens a lot unfortunately .