Dear chicken know-it-alls,

[The Tinman]

I don`t know but Mr Hawk likes the high dollar chicken.
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[ChooksChick]

I think the worst part is...when I clicked on the title of the thread...


I asked myself if I was the know-it-all, or if I was coming in to watch a train-wreck...I'm still not sure, though I'm fully willing to laugh at myself.

 

[acid_chipmunk]

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What is the leg color at hatch?

INDEED! Well, if you knew anything at all, you'd know that if you paid twice as much as you wanted to, the leg color is appropriate, and will shift to whatever everyone says it should be before they're grown (after it's too late for a refund) FURTHER MORE, the camera skews the coloring. You can't trust pictures of the camoodle, because they can't see their reflection in a mirror, and cameras are always rendered ineffectual when observing leg color.

Do the eggs do the same thing?!

 

[Inkheart]

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With ya on that one!!!!!!!

 

[mchl]

Tinman start raising dragons you dont worry about mr. hawk....I wish I was a know it all sigh..............

 

[EweSheep]

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People are VERY opinionated about that - i agree

HUH??? It still will be purebred Wyandotte with that cross but if it comes into a non standard variety, like a Barred Wynadotte? If that is the case, there ARE some Barred Wyndottes out there.

I've done the White Ameraucana roo from Mike Gilbert crossing over my black and blue Ameraucana girls from Mike (can't remember now, my old posts will show), the pair produced me this lot of chicks of blues and blacks, no whites or splashes. The white roo has three generations of white behind him. So therefore, the offsprings would be called EEs because of the parents were not "properly" mated in color as per experts. Well I personally say they ARE Ameraucanas but not in standard because of the probablitilty of throwing white chicks in the lot somewhere down the line. So far, it has been about four years ago, this has started and not one chick in the third generation has produced a white chick. They all had slate legs and proper colors and same color eggs, nothing light or dark, just consistent as it could be and it was hard to tell the difference whose egg belongs to whom. I kept two blue granddaughters of the original stock, one was blue as it could be and the other one was blue but has some gold leakage in the neck feathers.

It pays to have a thick skin when you have strong opinionated folks that really into the breed. Sometimes some of us can be hard headed and thinking we have this certain breed and after while, a light bulb goes into your head, AH-HA........now I see what they are talking about.

There should be a place for NON standard Ameraucanas (not EEs) which they are just as lovely as their show cousins.

 

[Gold Griffin Chicken Mom]

But but... What kind of fencing/pens do you use for those 'corns and 'agons varieties?

I guess it doesn't matter. I can't have an emu due to lack of fence around the yard. I doubt my neighbors would be impressed with my exotic animals. Anyone that went out exploring (because that's all these sweet animals EVER do, right?) could end up as shotgun fodder.

Now I'm going to go work on my fence (like I started to do prior to seeing this topic) because, well I don't enjoy work but I likes my pretty birds. I had to read this inside. Don't need the chickens wondering why I laugh like that.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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You may know it all, or a WHOLE lot, but I'd never classify you as A "know-it-all." I'm always excited to read your comments.

 

[sfw2]

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My Dragacorn is kept in his own cinderblock pen. He kept setting fire to the shavings and barbecuing the chickens when I kept them all together . . .

 

[acid_chipmunk]

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See, they are special and come already trained to stay on your property. That is what makes them so great!