MD - Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameracauna eggs

[Cottage Rose]

I will always keep some Ameraucanas cuz they are so pretty and of course who doesn't love those eggs but I kept them exclusively for 9 years and now I'm expanding into other breeds again.
I have some Marans from Bev Davis, picking up a few Isa Browns
(they never shut down even in the winter/awesome layers!)
from a friend this weekend AND hope to get some Brabanters in 2009.

I've had very good egg production with Rhode Island Reds and other brown egg, production hybrids like the Isa Browns who are hard to beat for great production
year round. Golden Comets and Sex-Links are also very good egg producers.
The Marans or Brananters may not be laying machines but with the Isa Browns to keep us in eggs I'm adding the other breeds for fun and egg color variety.
It will be fun to have a variety of egg colors again.

 

[pips&peeps]

Jean are they from Barbara Campbell?

I have wheaten/blue wheaten birds from Barbara, Paul, one from John and some from a lady in CA that got her original stock from Lisa C.

I started out buying lots of birds from different breeders and only keeping the best for breeding. I know that basically they are probably all related, but I figure there has been enough time for the different groups being apart that I have some genetic diversity.

I have culled mercilessly for color/type, then next was egg color and then laying ability.

I will admit this year I am not so happy with my black and blue flock this winter, but they laid like troopers during the heat. I have a friend that has a laying flock and has many black and blue birds from me and she told me they outlaid her production birds 3 to 1 last summer.

I am working on the "overall" bird. I know I probably won't ever have a National Champion, but I am striving towards a "correct" bird that lays a nice egg and lays well.

PS My signature has changed......​

 

[Cottage Rose]

quote pips&peeps:
"PS My signature has changed"
Not sure what that means or what changed.

Glad you are striving towards egg production as well.
We need more folks doing that.
My Wheatens & BW came from Paul but then I sold them to John when I had a surgery to go through.
Its the Ameraucana merry-go-round!

 

[pips&peeps]

Quote:
Western District Director Ameraucana Breeders Club

Hopefully I can do a good job.

 

[Cottage Rose]

Oh! Congrats and have fun with all those old farts!

 

[pips&peeps]

I am hoping to have an uneventful term. I also hope to add a little humor to the club.....

 

[chickencarsten]

Hi,we have a broody hen and would be intrested in buying some eggs(wheaten/blue wheaten ameracauna).Please let me know when you will have some available and the price.Thank You

 

[peachick]

pips&peeps :

I am hoping to have an uneventful term. I also hope to add a little humor to the club.....

Uneventful?? Really? in a breed club??? OMG can that happen???? I have belonged to SO MANY clubs over the years.... Its amazing how "high school" grown adults can act. )

Sarcasm asside....I wish you lots of luck and I know you will bring humor ) You have a lot to offer Jean Im glad your doing it. CONGRATULATIONS!​

 

[pasofinofarm]

Peachick said "Uneventful?? Really? in a breed club??? OMG can that happen???? I have belonged to SO MANY clubs over the years.... Its amazing how "high school" grown adults can act." End Quote


And it is worse with dogs and god save the queen... horses!

I have quietly ducked out of every breed assn. I ever had the misfortune to get involved with. It leaves one at a disadvantage for getting some nicer adult birds but otherwise makes one happier!

If anyone can add some humor Jean it should be you... heck if I lived in your district I might even join up.

I have noticed a decided dip in production at the first hint of cold too but we live in a subtropical climate and so don't struggle with long winter slows the way some in the cold north do.

I also like a colorful basket and to that end have the Golden Cuckoo Marans which lay wonderfuly in winter but shut down in the heat and Salmon Faverolles who happily out lay my neghbors production birds.

Ranging all my extra cockerels to meat this year I have to say that the Ameraucana is an extreamly slow maturing bird and many at 5 months were not even worth processing. I have picked my heaviest birds that are correct to add to the breeding pen this year and really desire to hit the upper limit of the breed standard as an average for wieght with some birds being heavier than that.

Thoughts anyone?

 

[Cottage Rose]

Kat...yes, yes, yes...exactly why I don't get actively involved in such things.

The strangest clubs are rose clubs...old horny men in plaid golf pants and beige mall shoes.
They have this propensity to get too close and breathe on you. EWW!

Jean you will be a rose among thorns.
Have fun!