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Sundial said:
I'm in Lebanon, MO and I just registered. :)
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Hi Sundial
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They ARE gorgeous stock. Great price too. Just have to make nice.
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Breeder has kept auction open on those Chocolate silky project - has another dozen - but I get mine! The silky is not from a cross but a spontaneous mutation of pure Ameracuna stock. Chocolate brought in with imported English stock.
I was looking for an exotic project - and who can resist chocolates? Especially big fuzzy ones that lay blue eggs?
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EdenCamp said:
They ARE gorgeous stock. Great price too. Just have to make nice.
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Breeder has kept auction open on those Chocolate silky project - has another dozen - but I get mine! The silky is not from a cross but a spontaneous mutation of pure Ameracuna stock. Chocolate brought in with imported English stock.
I was looking for an exotic project - and who can resist chocolates? Especially big fuzzy ones that lay blue eggs?
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I saw that it was a mutation!!! Please dont say project. I already have the Polish one. And now maybe a Sizzle?
 
On the guineas, they are delicate and spazzy starting out. If you get older than young babies you really need to keep them confined for at least a month before starting to let them out or they won't imprint where home is and off they go. Mine were day olds and I lost a few to misadventure before adolecense - dropped one, cat grabbed another. A third freaked over nothing and broke it's neck because it's head got caught through chicken wire. Remember, they are spazzy and always act like you're gonna have them for snacks. Babies need pebbles in water tower or they are liable to drown. I did pick up a few older young ones that were ranging with thier broody hen foster mom to help teach them the ropes.

Once I started letting them roam they'd roost in or on top of the coop left open for ranging - lost 2 to owls before they wised up. Now I have 7, which is the minimum number recommended to establish them, and they are starting to lay. They are stupid mothers so I snagged a bunch of eggs out of nests and popped them under a broody to improve chances or increasing my flock. Once they start sucessfully hatching thier own you're pretty well set to go.

There are tons of colors out there. Pearls seem to be the most common. There's purples, whites, lavenders, pieds, chocolates and so on. Best to start with a dozen young ones to end up with the 7+ minimum.

They make great watchbirds and any thing that eats ticks is worth putting up with in my books. Some people detest thier noise. Others appreciate the warning system. They are never going to be "pets" and they have a face only a mother could love - but they are fun to watch, onery and goofy. And again, anything that helps decimate ticks I love.
 
jnjmanning said:
I saw that it was a mutation!!! Please dont say project. I already have the Polish one. And now maybe a Sizzle?
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LOL! Oh, they throw mauve too - a lighter chocolate with red lacing.....

A gal got a pair of splashes hatch out "silky" from eggs she bought from a breeder. The egg breeder didn't have silkys and they had great type. Only a few eggs and offspring were produced from this pair before the gal that hatched them got out of birds. The breeder that is producing chocolates is using them. She was getting 25% chocolate, 25% silky and it was female sexlinked - now cholate males are hatching too so she's further along.

I've got B/B/S from exhibition quality stock coming from the breeder that supplied those origional eggs that hatched those silkys too. Haven't found out if same lines yet...but could be, has only been like 2 years, it's recessive obviously.

Ameracuna Chocolates, chocolate silkies, red laced chocolates, red laced chocolate silkies....... Ohhh this could be fun!

Good luck on your Sizzles!
 
EdenCamp said:
On the guineas, they are delicate and spazzy starting out. If you get older than young babies you really need to keep them confined for at least a month before starting to let them out or they won't imprint where home is and off they go. Mine were day olds and I lost a few to misadventure before adolecense - dropped one, cat grabbed another. A third freaked over nothing and broke it's neck because it's head got caught through chicken wire. Remember, they are spazzy and always act like you're gonna have them for snacks. Babies need pebbles in water tower or they are liable to drown. I did pick up a few older young ones that were ranging with thier broody hen foster mom to help teach them the ropes.

Once I started letting them roam they'd roost in or on top of the coop left open for ranging - lost 2 to owls before they wised up. Now I have 7, which is the minimum number recommended to establish them, and they are starting to lay. They are stupid mothers so I snagged a bunch of eggs out of nests and popped them under a broody to improve chances or increasing my flock. Once they start sucessfully hatching thier own you're pretty well set to go.

There are tons of colors out there. Pearls seem to be the most common. There's purples, whites, lavenders, pieds, chocolates and so on. Best to start with a dozen young ones to end up with the 7+ minimum.

They make great watchbirds and any thing that eats ticks is worth putting up with in my books. Some people detest thier noise. Others appreciate the warning system. They are never going to be "pets" and they have a face only a mother could love - but they are fun to watch, onery and goofy. And again, anything that helps decimate ticks I love.
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I started with 8 last year in July. They were 4 weeks old when I got them. I had a hen who loved babies, so she raised them. They LOVED this hen, and only this hen. To this day they detest my other chickens, except my roo, who will cluck and feed them like he does his hens. Mine will go in the coop if cold or raining. Any other time they roost in the oak tree that is in the middle of the chicken yard. I have 2 females and 3 males. My hens are laying, but I have yet to find the nest. I lost 3, but not sure what got them. I would guess owls or raccoons.
 

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