California - Northern

[Flowers of Abba]

Hmmm. Decided on the 23rd to visit the fair. Free kids day... I sure hope the grand baby is either already here or we are going to be checking the cell phone every two minutes! I see someone has chicks hatching in expo 6! Very cool deb.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

No excusing needed. I am sorry if you felt I was being critical of you, I was just trying to show that what may be true in one area may not be true in another. I usually try to put something about it being my experience instead of stating it as a fact. The statement you just made allows people to decide if it works for them and in their area.

Several local predators here do not care what color their prey is, they go by scent and actions. If it acts like prey they attack it, no matter the color. Mountain Lions will attack Joggers because they are running (prey actions) and I am sure the Joggers do not wear fawn brown clothing or smell remotely like a deer. I do know albinos do not last long in the wilds. Once a predator learns white is food they will eat is just as readily as anything else, and it is more easily seen than any other color. My mother looses her white chickens more often than her black ones. She is in New Mexico. She does loose some black ones too though. Owls don't seem to care about colors, but they find the white ones first.

My experience with white rabbits was a friend's pet rabbit that got out of its cage while its habitat was being cleaned. My friend put it outside to "enjoy the grass" under the cage but the latch was not put on right and it got out. First I tried to catch it but I couldn't. That rabbit hadn't been out of the cage for more than 3 minutes and I had gone back inside to get my friend's help to catch it. When we went back outside it was just in time to watch a hawk swoop out of the sky and carry it off ... No white prejudice there and truly unexpected as she lives on the outskirts of a big city.

As I try to say, your mileage may vary.

white is more likely to be eaten.

 

[OR4-hmom]

I was just teasing about the PP's. I've learned to see past the wet ones, seems I have an assisted hatch chick every time I try to hatch. Anymore I don't get concerned until after the third day, they eventually fluff up.

 

[ronott1]

I was just teasing about the PP's. I've learned to see past the wet ones, seems I have an assisted hatch chick every time I try to hatch. Anymore I don't get concerned until after the third day, they eventually fluff up.

The one with the yolk problem was out sitting in the shell for 5 or 6 hours. This is one of the few times that I did not have to crack a chick out of the shell. They did very well hatching and all of them hatched within 24 hours of the first one.

It was nice not having to get junk off of them. They have a high hatch ability factor to them.

 

[katkim22]

Yes thankyou I am looking for the chickens. I currently have 4 Rhode Island Reds, 4 Faverolles and only 1 Ameraucana. Unfortunately we have raccoon, bobcat, and rat issues so until I built a animal resistant coop in one of my horse stalls for night time I lost many chickens most of them were my Ameraucauna's. Wonder what that means? I need 6 month so that they can defend themselves in my current flock.

We use to have a distributor up in Auburn, CA but the local feed stores no longer have contact with him.

Any help is appreciated.

Kathie

 

[WooingWyandotte]

Does anyone here in nor cal have Black/Blue copper marans for sale?

 

[ChickNmamma]

Yes thankyou I am looking for the chickens. I currently have 4 Rhode Island Reds, 4 Faverolles and only 1 Ameraucana. Unfortunately we have raccoon, bobcat, and rat issues so until I built a animal resistant coop in one of my horse stalls for night time I lost many chickens most of them were my Ameraucauna's. Wonder what that means? I need 6 month so that they can defend themselves in my current flock.

We use to have a distributor up in Auburn, CA but the local feed stores no longer have contact with him.

Any help is appreciated.

Kathie

I wonder if you are talking about the feed store/hatchery variety of Americanas - known on this site as Easter Eggers. They lay blue eggs (usually) but they are not Ameraucanas. If you go to the ABC website and look at the accepted colors of Ameraucanas - do/did your birds look like these? http://www.ameraucana.org/

You can also go to the Easter Eggers (EE) bragger's thread and see if your birds look like these. I have EEs and I love mine, but I now know they are not Ameraucanas. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/273489/the-ee-braggers-thread/12060#post_11633601

If you find you have Easter Eggers and you want some more I would suggest buying the Easter Egger hens/pullets from Chickee, her birds are much closer to Ameraucanas than the ones from the Feed Stores. I have never heard of an Ameraucana breeder or distributor in Auburn. I had to order my true Ameraucanas from back east as day-olds, and I had to wait for 6 months to get them.

 

[chiqita]

Does anyone here in nor cal have Black/Blue copper marans for sale?

I have French black copper marans and I am in San Jose. Are you looking for eggs or chicks?

 

[ronott1]

I am processing two White Bresse Cockerels today. They are rough plucked and ready for the next step. It took me 35 minutes to get to this point.

Time to take a picture for the Process day support thread.

 

[chiqita]

Did you finish them traditionally ron?