Consolidated Kansas

[johnsons-r-us]

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She is beautiful! Does she lay a colored egg? I'm really hoping I get at least one that lays a blue or green egg!


We just got our first green egg yesterday and it looks like the same color as yours! I would so excited as we've had two of our BR's and BO pullets laying for the last 2-4 weeks, but I wanted to see what color the Americauna would lay. We have another one that has not layed yet, I'm hoping she lays blue! I can't believe the deep, clear color of our green egg.

Anyone know of a chicken processor near Lawrence, KS? We are in Eudora, just a few miles outside of Lawrence and we will need one next spring. I have tried to search but have come up empty. Thank you!

 

[Hawkeye95]

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Chooks is in your area and if she pops on here, she knows of a couple of places to process.

I have no clue what is up there!

Congrats on your green egg!

 

[Hawkeye95]

MsFrizzle- so, so, so, so SWEET!!! Omgosh- that is so hilarious that they 'followed' you home! They are tricky little birds, are they not? How cute! I wonder what color your grey silkie will be? Maybe blue??? Question for you- how are your older birds handling the younger ones? I'm hoping to throw my new hatches in with my chicks I have now. Hoping everyone behaves themselves. They aren't due until this Friday to hatch. Love all your birds! So exciting!!!

 

[Trish44]

I have contracted the chicken addiction too it seems. I started out thinking we were JUST going to have 5-6 hens. Now I have 6 starting to lay, 2 that won't be ready for a couple of months, 3 that are just 3 months old, 3 roosters, & am getting 6 more hens & 2 roosters on Monday. I can't trust myself to go to a store where there are chicks, I'm afraid I will want to bring them all home.

I'm still waiting on my two EEs to lay, I was told by the breeder that they should lay greenish blue eggs. I can't wait to see them! So far only 1 of my Barred Rocks is laying, but from the looks of the other one she should be joining in any day. The Red Stars also look like they should lay soon. My hubby has no patience for waiting on them all to lay, he wants eggs NOW.

 

[justinwrites]

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We just got our first green egg yesterday and it looks like the same color as yours! I would so excited as we've had two of our BR's and BO pullets laying for the last 2-4 weeks, but I wanted to see what color the Americauna would lay. We have another one that has not layed yet, I'm hoping she lays blue! I can't believe the deep, clear color of our green egg.

Anyone know of a chicken processor near Lawrence, KS? We are in Eudora, just a few miles outside of Lawrence and we will need one next spring. I have tried to search but have come up empty. Thank you!

http://www.manta.com/c/mtrnfqd/anco-poultry-processing

 

[chicken danz]

Baumann's in Garnett does processing. I can't locate their number right now.

 

[johnsons-r-us]

Thank you for the suggestions! I will check them out, I want to be ready!

 

[Ivywoods]

I have been getting a few blue-green eggs for about a week. I'm not sure which ones are laying. It is either my wheaton ameraucanas or the lavenders.

In fact yesterday I found a greenish blue egg in my roll out nest where my free range layers lay their eggs. I don't have any free ranging ameraucanas "that I know of!" Evidently there is one out there hiding in the weeds somewhere that came in to lay that egg. I thought I had all the pullets caught and rounded up. I had let the weeds grow up in and around one pen by the barn. It worked very well for a place for the chickens to hang out when it was so hot this summer. (Don't have to worry about THAT right now! brrrrrrr!) Anyway, there must be some slick chick that has managed to escape my attention. I have no idea where she would be roosting. Hopefully I will find her before an owl does!

I hate to be the one to say this, and I hope no one is offended by this, but there is not a single hatchery in the United States that sells "pure" ameraucanas. They all sell an easter egger, which is a mix of ameraucana, auracana and just about any other breed, but generally it is a layer of some kind. Although they can be BEAUTIFUL, and there is nothing wrong with having an easter egger, AND they DO lay a blue or green egg, they are not pure ameraucanas and probably shouldn't be bred to be sold as ameraucanas. Generally they are great, hardy chickens that make a great little flock of layers.

The Ameraucana Breeders Club has been trying to get hatcheries to stop advertising their chickens as ameraucanas, but have had very little luck. They still use the terms ameraucana, auracana and easter egger interchangeably.

Personally, I plan to make my own easter eggers. They will actually be "olive eggers," a cross between my marans and an ameraucana. I will then take the best egg layer from that group and cross it again with one of my marans and I should be able to get a very dark olive colored egg.

 

[chicken danz]

Ivy, do you have any Welsummers? I just have a couple of pullets. I think I accidentally sold my roo as he isn't around here. Mine have just started laying and their eggs are even darker than most of the Marans. It might be a consideration for an option. Of course if you already have the Marans that keeps you from buying more birds.
When you come here I will show you my designer chicken. I've tried to duplicate her but haven't got it just right. She is a cross between a black cochin and a gold laced polish. She is absolutely beautiful. Unfortunately she is one of those birds that won't warm up to me and always runs from the camera. I think you'll be amazed at her. Of course with that background she isn't going to be a great constant layer, but she is laying a nice brown egg.

 

[Ivywoods]

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Hi Danz- I don't have any welsummers. I did have, years ago. None of my marans are laying right now. I kept the one best older hen, and she lays a very dark egg. She is brooding on a clutch of 6 eggs right now. The pullets I kept from this year haven't started to lay yet, but when I get back from my little vacation I intend to move them and put some "inviting" nest boxes in for them and try to encourage them to lay. Some of my ameraucanas are a little older than my marans pullets, and they started to lay recently, so I have high hopes that my marans will lay soon.

Yes, I'd love to see your designer girl. I had some very nice golden BEARDED polish when I was a kid. I won grand champion at the state fair with them one year. I really liked them. I also had LF buff cochins and now I have bantam black cochins. Gee... I guess I like them all!

I had some silver spangled hamburgs when I was a kid. They were drop dead gorgeous, but I hated those things. I never could get them calmed down. They were flighty and could fly like a sparrow. They would get up in the rafters of the barn and I never could get them down. Durn birds.