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[Andora]

True Ameraucana with blue eggs? That would be exciting! I dream of owning white Ameraucanas. I wish you were closer to me. How far are you exactly? lol.

I am going to have to rehome some ducks soon possibly, if any of you all want them. I have 4 Giant White Pekins and 2 Mallards. I *think* all of the Pekins are males because they all have orange beaks. I want to keep them so bad but I don't know what to do with them in my backyard.

 

[shelleyd2008]

All pekins have orange bills. The only way to tell the sex is by quacking for girls, or drake tail feathers for boys.

And yes, the DipseyDoodleDoo eggs are pure BBS ameraucanas! I have one chick right now from her eggs, I haven't been able to hatch chicken eggs very well this winter

But this one chick is a girl, and she is the sweetest thing! I can't wait to get more! I'm also supposed to be getting some bantam lavender ameraucanas from sara, as soon as I have enough $$! Those are pretty pricey, but oh so worth it!

But with the ducks, you can see in this pic the drake feathers on the black one in the middle and the booty shot on the right.

That's what the males will have, after about 4 or 5 months old. The pekin in the back is a drake, as well as the rouen in the center, but at that angle it's hard to see the feathers. The two pekins in the front are female, smooth tailed, no curly drake feathers. The brown one in the back is a female rouen, and the black one in the back is a female cayuga. The rouens look like the mallards, so if you have some that look like the brown one, those will be girls. One way to tell if they are young is that the males get a white bar across the front of their necks and the females do not.

I am in Adair County, about 25-30 miles west of Somerset.

 

[Andora]

I think...I love ducks. As much or more than I love chickens.

The reason I was looking at beak color was because when we got the ducklings, TubbyChicken was with me...when we were deciding who was keeping what out of our TSC purchase, we noticed that her duckling had a perfectly pink beak compared to mine.

Today I went back to TSC to look at the other Pekins to maybe get a pink beaked one to go with my orange beaked Pekin, and then I accidentally bought three more Pekins (all with orange beaks) and one more Mallard. Oops.

Shelley I think you are pretty far away from Lexington, something like 3 hours? I know it's too far to drag my toddler in the car lol.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Do you plan on going to the sale in Liberty? I could take them there with me if you like. Let me know and I'll take pics of them.

My baby pekin girl started quacking at 2 weeks old, the cayuga and rouens started about 4-5 weeks. Once the mallards start feathering out, the males get the white bar across their necks. The females never get these.

I'll have to look at my pekin baby pics to see if there was any difference in bill color. I hatched 2, a pair, and I don't remember anything different about them, except that one had a black spot on its back.

Oh, and don't tell anyone

but I think I love ducks more too

If yours are males, your neighbors would probably not mind them as much. The males aren't very loud at all, just a raspy, whispery thing they do. The females can be pretty loud!

 

[tazzy]

Does anyone know where to find buff orpington chicks now? I went to three TSC stores today - Georgetown, Lawrenceburg and Shelbyville, but they didn't have buff orps.

I called the La Grange store and they said they have Ameraucanas, in case you're still looking Andora. That might be a little farther than you're willing to travel. But that was at 6 p.m. tonight that the sales clerk said they had them in stock.

For anyone else interested, since I've done the circuit today, Georgetown had assorted reds and rhode island reds, as well as bantams and ducks, looked like mallards and white pekins.

Lawrenceburg had straight run Golden Comets, RIR's, black sex links and ducks. They also had a bunch of new chicks in that were labeled Columbian Rock pullets, but the store clerk said he thought they were Cornish Rocks since that was the order they had been expecting that morning. I'm not sure who labeled them Columbian Rocks whether it was someone from the store or if they were delivered with that label.

In Shelbyville, they had tons of RIR's, but they were sold out today, just had red assorted straight run as well as black sex links.

 

[tazzy]

oh, thanks, but yeah, columbia is a little farther than we'd like to go. trying to find them within an hour of shelbyville, or close to it. columbia is about two hours away, or 100 miles. darn it. I wish it was closer! do you mind sharing the name of the feed store just in case my husband can't resist?

 

[FrChuckW]

Aw heck, my usual store that carried baby chicks stopped carrying them. And it looks like another failed batch of eggs in the bators.

Hopefully the eggs I left in the nest box with the broodies will hatch something. I still need a white silkie pullet, a black silkie pullet, a solid blue silkie pullet, and maybe a grey or buff silkie pullet. Maybe Saturday morning I'll head down to Shepherdsville to the swap and see what's there.

Of course I could always order from Ideal and get 5 of each color variety they offer for around $135.00, that would be 40 chicks, but with my luck they'd all turn out to be roos!

Scored another dog run on craigslist, this one is a 10 x 10 and needs a little bit of fencing repair but for $100.00 that's not bad.

Shelley if you still have the Buttercup baby when Kelly and I come down to pick up the goslings, I'll take her from you.

 

[kycowgirlchick]

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There is a minnonite with a large quantity of isa brown he is selling. Somewhere in Crab Orchard???

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Well, got my chickies this morning (the 110). I had a doc appt. (forgot about it until they called me yesterday evening) and since the PO called me at 6 AM I just told them I'd pick em up after my appt (at 8:30-ish).

All alive and kicking and exactly 110 chicks. Looks like a heavy amount of white rocks (I don't think their cornish X - but some might be). Have some rir (not many of those) and some Black Australorps (not many of those either).

So, I'm glad I grabbed what I wanted at Day & Day the other day (except my Light Brahmas I still need for them to get in).

I expect the white rock boys will be ok for eating - they get reasonably broad and fat - not huge, but not bad - even the white rock girls I have (adults) are pretty broad in the chest.

eta - I counted babies - got 20 BA and 9 RIR the rest are white chicks.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Ok, doing searches, I am wondering if the RIR aren't in fact "Big Reds" (their version of red broilers).

They have no stripes at all (but some pics of RIR chicks I see don't either). I guess we'll see if they start to get massive or not.

They may also be a "Buff Red" whatever the heck that is.

Oh, and BTW - Reich Poultry - who this is actually from, if ya call them directly you can get the same heavy mix - has orders smaller than the 50 if someone wanted to try this mix. You can get 25 of them for 12.95 plus 10.60 ship. That's still less than a buck if ya want some eating chickens.

Ok, full list of Heavy Breed Special possibles are ...
Big Reds, Barred Rocks, White Rocks, Buff Reds, Cornish X, "and huge Silver Laced Black Giants that weigh up to 16 pounds"

Might be interesting to see the SLB Giants.

I'll take a pic of one of the chicks and see if anyone can tell the dif between the rir and a red sexlink chick...

eta pics...

Looking at them closer, I doubt the are RIR - maybe they are a "buff red" or a "Big Red" ? They are darker than my buff orps I got monday - but lighter than any RIR chicks I've ever seen in person.

meri