Brown-red ameraucana

[herechickchick]

The Brown Red is pretty rare. You can visit the breeders page on the Ameraucana Breeders Club Website to contact those who have them. I am not currently offering hatching eggs as I have just started working on them myself but I may have hatching eggs available in the spring.

 

[sara]

Adam,
I'm glad to see you are working on them. They are pretty, especially the hens. I almost wish I had a couple of them.

 

[klf73]

I have 2(had 10 but they were trashed by PO) in my bator now and was just curious. Lucky for me I am getting more sent to me next week, hopefully they fare better.
Krista

 

[herechickchick]

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Thanks I am really excited, the choice between the Blue Wheatens and The Brown Reds was hard but I liked the idea of working with a color that needs some attention. I have been in contact with Rose Konold and she has been most helpful. My current eggs are from her. Depending on how these develop I will decide if I will seek out other Brown Reds to improve my flock in the spring or wait.

I am planning a trip to an Araucana breeder that is near me, Dick Dickerson to get some Wild Type BBR hens for a cross breeding project and I am hoping to grab a pair or trio of Buff Bantam Araucana from him and then I am at full capacity until I move.

Barbra Campbell sent me an e-mail about an Ameraucana Club meet at a show in Virgina. Did you get the e-mail? Are you thinking of going?

 

[sara]

I wish I could go, but that's a little far for me. I'm just trying to get some one to get in touch with me about getting my birds NPIP so that I can hopefully try showing some of my lavenders when I get them up to a showable standard.

 

[herechickchick]

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I am thinking of NPIP for myself as well but I am having a hard time finding th info for my area. I would love to see photos of your LF Lavender. I am hoping to show in the spring if I get a good hen or roo out of this batch. I don't expect to win anything but the experience will be fun.

Edited because I can't spell

 

[sara]

I'll have to take recent pictures of them and post. Mostly I have bantam lavenders. I'm starting to work on the LF, I have two cockerels (from John Blehm), and am hatching split blackXlavender chicks today thanks to another member of this board, Shaffer.

I keep emailing the contact I found when I searched online for NPIP, but get no reply. I have to try and call them and see if I can get in touch with someone.

 

[pips&peeps]

Sara,

Are your lavenders a bit on the small side too? I was thinking of putting mine in with some blacks this fall and starting from there, instead of breeding them together because of the size issue.

ETA: The chicks look pretty much like black ameraucana chicks, you cannot tell the difference until the feathers start to come in and they are that orangey color.

 

[sara]

Jean,
Yep the lavenders are smaller than the blacks I got at the same time. I got some split eggs, lavender cock over black hens from Harry that are hatching today. I know these will be larger than my lavender cockerels, so hopefully I'll be able to up the size from them.

sara