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Zinjifrah said:
They're a mix, so there's no way of knowing what went into it - it's entirely possible that it was Ameraucana and Salmon Faverolles, to make a Favaucana! I got Smoke from a local woman, who I was actually trying to get some fertilized eggs from... she didn't have any, but I went home with what she insisted on calling 'Americana'. Which, of course, are actually Easter Eggers, not Ameraucana. However, I knew that - and they suit me just fine. I don't like eggs either, but I won't deny that I'm very curious what color my three pop out. One of them looks like she should be producing some butt-fruit any day now - not Smoke, but this girl, Ash...

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If you don't mind me asking, what portion of Nevada are you in? Northern, Middle (Reno-esque) or Southern?
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Oh she is a cutie!! Her name is perfect! this one was supposed to be an amercauna, she isn't, so no idea what she is but she lays dark brown eggs! She is the only one besides my Bertha that lays eggs so far.
Oh im in Middle, Fallon. 60 miles from Reno, we have Top Gun Naval Base here!

The hard part is gonna be which egg belongs to which chicken! lol
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clucks_a_lot said:
Oh she is a cutie!! Her name is perfect! this one was supposed to be an amercauna, she isn't, so no idea what she is but she lays dark brown eggs! She is the only one besides my Bertha that lays eggs so far.
Oh im in Middle, Fallon. 60 miles from Reno, we have Top Gun Naval Base here!

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Nice! Yeah, that one doesn't look like an Ameraucana... one of my Mustangs came from near you - the Broken Arrow Holding Facility. They wouldn't let me come pick her up there, so I had to pick her up at the Palomino Valley facility out by Pyramid Lake. She's a good girl, though I'm pretty sure they were using cattle prods to move the horses at Broken Arrow... took me quite a while to get her over her fear of stick-shaped objects.

A friend of mine over in Winnemucca has a couple of my Serama cockerels, trying to find homes for them - don't know if you'd have any interest in any Serama cockerels, but if you get hold of her (They're posted on the Reno Craigslist, I believe) let her know you talked to me here, and there'd be no charge for them. Only problem is that you'd probably have to meet her in Lovelock, since I'm not sure she'd be happy about driving all the way out to Fallon. She already drove two of them to Reno to meet a guy who never showed up or let her know he wouldn't be there.
 
Zinjifrah said:
Nice! Yeah, that one doesn't look like an Ameraucana... one of my Mustangs came from near you - the Broken Arrow Holding Facility. They wouldn't let me come pick her up there, so I had to pick her up at the Palomino Valley facility out by Pyramid Lake. She's a good girl, though I'm pretty sure they were using cattle prods to move the horses at Broken Arrow... took me quite a while to get her over her fear of stick-shaped objects.

A friend of mine over in Winnemucca has a couple of my Serama cockerels, trying to find homes for them - don't know if you'd have any interest in any Serama cockerels, but if you get hold of her (They're posted on the Reno Craigslist, I believe) let her know you talked to me here, and there'd be no charge for them. Only problem is that you'd probably have to meet her in Lovelock, since I'm not sure she'd be happy about driving all the way out to Fallon. She already drove two of them to Reno to meet a guy who never showed up or let her know he wouldn't be there.
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Oh nice! Well plenty more horses going to be up for adoption soon, I would rather see the homed than out on the range. Too many are getting hit anymore.

And I would LOVE LOVE LOVE them but unofrotunatly I can't have any cockerels. but Seramas are gorgeous and a dream breed of mine!
 
clucks_a_lot said:
Oh nice! Well plenty more horses going to be up for adoption soon, I would rather see the homed than out on the range. Too many are getting hit anymore.

And I would LOVE LOVE LOVE them but unfortunately I can't have any cockerels. but Seramas are gorgeous and a dream breed of mine!
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Two mustangs is enough for me! But they're wonderful horses. Very level-headed, intelligent and tough.

Yeah, I love the Seramas - but ended up with too many cockerels! I hatched seven eggs... and only got one girl. So they went to stay with someone who had an empty coop - no girls to fight over or gang up on! - while she finds them homes. Though fighting wasn't any problem at all... they didn't, other than normal pecking order scuffles. Ganging up on the girls... that was a problem.
 
Zinjifrah said:
Two mustangs is enough for me! But they're wonderful horses. Very level-headed, intelligent and tough.

Yeah, I love the Seramas - but ended up with too many cockerels! I hatched seven eggs... and only got one girl. So they went to stay with someone who had an empty coop - no girls to fight over or gang up on! - while she finds them homes. Though fighting wasn't any problem at all... they didn't, other than normal pecking order scuffles. Ganging up on the girls... that was a problem.
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Yeah I want at least one sometime just to have one in the coop for the purpose of a guard. And yeah, the ganging up or hurting my girls is a fear of mine. Bertha is the littlest and missing a foot, she ate it after an accident, and she holds her ground but in the instance of a large cockerel idk if I would be able to have that haha. She is the Queen of CLuckingham lol
 
clucks_a_lot said:
Yeah I want at least one sometime just to have one in the coop for the purpose of a guard. And yeah, the ganging up or hurting my girls is a fear of mine. Bertha is the littlest and missing a foot, she ate it after an accident, and she holds her ground but in the instance of a large cockerel idk if I would be able to have that haha. She is the Queen of CLuckingham lol
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That's a nice thing about the Seramas... they're so small that they really don't seem to have any luck hurting the girls, but they do harass them - when there's a gang. I'm keeping two of the six boys, one of the original three and one of the second batch - so they're less likely to work together. Usually the 'harassment' means one of them grabs a pullet by the tail, and gets dragged around while she yells at him before he falls off. They haven't managed to pull any feathers out - but when they cornered my third EE, the very subservient lavender splash - Snow - in the coop and frightened her into cramming herself behind a board to try and get away, it was time for some to go live elsewhere. Here's Snow, just to complete the trio;

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Now that it's just the one hormonal cockerel and the young one, Copper - the older cockerel - is being very, very polite to the girls. I think he realized they could sit on him and squash him.
 

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