Blue Ameraucana thread!

[PapaChaz]

ok got some pics for y'all to look at and help me with. If the 3 wide comb is a true indication, I have a few boys around, LOL
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so far, all of these are the 6 week olds. next 2 are 5 weeks old
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ok so there we are, some of you more knowledgeable ones, see if you agree with me. I think 1, 2, and 5 are roosters. The last two, don't have quite enough bumps yet to tell, but it looks like both of them are pullets. What say ye? and thanks!

 

[Alaskan]

@PapaChaz

I am not so good with that sort of thing, so I shouldn't even try to guess..

post it again on the general ameraucana thread... more people there to look at the photos:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...for-posting-pictures-and-discussing-our-birds

 

[elorraine52]

....so I come home the other morning and go to let the chooks out of their coop, and find one of my 2 splash Am roo's dead on the floor of the coop...
dang...

and, of course, he was the larger and prettier of the 2.
Of the 2 blue Am hens, one lays a fairly good sized egg, the other lays a tiny egg, about an inch to an inch and 1/2 long...with no yolk....
WTH? I keep waiting for her eggs to get larger, and have a yolk....anyone else have this problem?
I've got 9 eggs from the one hen in the bator, hoping some hatch so I can increase my Am flock alittle bit.

 

[PapaChaz]

any idea what happened to the rooster?

how old is the hen laying the bad eggs?

I can't wait for my AMs to get older and start laying! my oldest 6 turn 8 weeks old monday

 

[jburts]

so sorry that happened to us last year we lost a one year old hen a buff orpington fine in the morning and when I got home from work she was dead,
it is sad when this happens, also lost a older hen this last winter, she died at night, but she was old we don't know how old, since we got her a round about way, she was lost and someone called thinking it was a chicken that we advertised that went missing.
we had her for three years, very few eggs though.

but she was our pet,

 

[jburts]

it is really hard to tell, I'm still trying to figure out my new five,
I think I have hens, but the little one is so tiny still ,don't know for sure what that one might be,
I was told that when you lay them on their backs in the palm of your hand and support their neck and if the feet curl up to their chest it is a hen,
if they go straight out then it is a boy,but of course this may not be 100 % accurate, but mine all curl their feet up, the little one though one day legs are straight out and now they are curled in when I do this, who knows.

 

[PapaChaz]

it is really hard to tell, I'm still trying to figure out my new five,
I think I have hens, but the little one is so tiny still ,don't know for sure what that one might be,
I was told that when you lay them on their backs in the palm of your hand and support their neck and if the feet curl up to their chest it is a hen,
if they go straight out then it is a boy,but of course this may not be 100 % accurate, but mine all curl their feet up, the little one though one day legs are straight out and now they are curled in when I do this, who knows.

sounds like yet another old wives/old farmer (maybe old farmers wife?) tale...........

 

[elorraine52]

any idea what happened to the rooster?

how old is the hen laying the bad eggs?

I can't wait for my AMs to get older and start laying! my oldest 6 turn 8 weeks old monday

absolutely no idea about the roo, he was under the roost pole stretched out forward, head tucked a little, was fine the day before, no signs of injury or trauma...
they are just a year old now, got them april 2014 from CityGirlintheCountry

 

[jburts]

yep never know do we?

 

[elorraine52]

these are the size of the eggs I was talking about....she lays one about as often as usual, only the size is too small, and no yolk....they never get any bigger...the normal size blue/green egg is her sisters....the rest are from the rest of the flock