Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[vintagegem]

Pretty sure they are Ameracauna's....got them from Wynette....they are very pretty birds, 2 grey (blue?) and one black

 

[ChickenLady2014]

I have 3 Ameracauna, 2 Barred Rock crosses, and 4 Red hens of unknown breed (but incredibly nice temperaments !). The first 5 are very pretty birds but not very sociable to me or the red hens, I'm still waiting for the Ameracauna's to start laying as they will have a blue/green egg I believe?

The Americauna are definitely late layers, my Barred Rock took there old sweet time to lay as well & I'm still getting a smaller egg from one. They are funny, each bird is different. I bought nine 7 month old hens off of Craigslist this past Feb. That included 2 Easter Eggers (EE) the hatcheries call them Americauna's, but they are not the real thing. One of them had been picked on pretty bad. She had very few feathers on her back and she wasn't laying. I did some research and found out that sometimes when birds as missing feathers they won't lay because both feather growth & egg laying require a lot of protein to produce. Well that darn bird couldn't get a feather started for nothing. Everytime she had a bunch of pin feathers started she would mysteriously wouldn't have any the next day. Come to find out, she was eating her own feathers. I had given up on her ever laying until after first molt, but that little bugger finally gave us her first egg when she was 11 months old. Late this fall she molted, you wanna talk about ugly, remember she didn't have any feathers on her back to begin with, so when she started to loose them on her head, neck, breast & butt she was a sight. I should have taken a picture of her lol. She is now completely feathered for the first time since we got her in Feb. So to make a long rambling story short, sometimes the most beautiful things in life you have to wait for. She has rewarded us with a beautiful minty blue, green egg ♡

 

[vintagegem]

Your post made me laugh, I never realized just how very ugly a moulting chicken was!....one of my reds was a little bald on her back when I got her at the age of 1 year, then she lost quite a few more feathers....ugh! bald chickens are something else

But you are so right about the beautiful things that come when you wait, I am always just in awe everytime I pick up an egg....they just look so perfect....nature sure is amazing isn't it?

 

[ChickenLady2014]

Your post made me laugh, I never realized just how very ugly a moulting chicken was!....one of my reds was a little bald on her back when I got her at the age of 1 year, then she lost quite a few more feathers....ugh! bald chickens are something else   But you are so right about the beautiful things that come when you wait, I am always just in awe everytime I pick up an egg....they just look so perfect....nature sure is amazing isn't it?

You are right, nature is amazing. Just love my birds. But I do wish I would have taken a picture of Pickle's. That's what my granddaughter named her because she was always pickin', lol.

 

[birdman55]

eggs are awesome..i have all sorts of different colored one now...I never had white ones or green ones but now with the new birds..bam...more colors...so cool to see the different color...im trying to find the chickens that produce the reddish pink eggs....that would be super cool...then I would have almost a rainbow

 

[ChickenLady2014]

eggs are awesome..i have all sorts of different colored one now...I never had white ones or green ones but now with the new birds..bam...more colors...so cool to see the different color...im trying to find the chickens that produce the reddish pink eggs....that would be super cool...then I would have almost a rainbow

My Hatchery Welsummers lay a redish- pinkish egg most of the time. Sometimes I get a real treat & get a darker brown, but not often. Is this what color your talking about birdman55?

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Uugh. Well, i just was informed officialls are going door to door swabbing birds in my area. A bird was found to be a carrier of something that would cause "trade implications" and lameness.......? Idk more but i am going to the township this morning when they open. Mine are only outside bits at a time and are very protected so are pretty safe but it is still scarey. If it is involving officials i would assume it is something that would require euthinising. The sooner i get mine tested and moved the better i'll feel. I knew that auction was asking for trouble, allowing obviously ill and dying birds to be sold.

 

[preciouskitty]

Pretty sure they are Ameracauna's....got them from Wynette....they are very pretty birds, 2 grey (blue?) and one black

They are Ameraucanas if you got them from Wynette. I got a black (Kali) and a blue (grey) from her at CS2014. The blue, Rana got killed by a hawk about 10 days after she started laying
They are VERY pretty birds...I just wish Kali would start laying..she's only 4 weeks younger than what Rana was..but, so far, she 12 weeks behind schedule in comparison!!!

Looks like molt it close to done..lots of combs reddening back up. Sure am ready. Besides not getting many eggs...I miss my green & dark brown Marans eggs!!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Grrr. Can't sleep, worried. Whatever it was looks to have been from a local non-chicken farm, and viral to whatever it was and chickens; carried by wild birds. i don't think the usda would be looking for mareks so at a loss...

 

[JackieandChicks]

Grrr. Can't sleep, worried. Whatever it was looks to have been from a local non-chicken farm, and viral to whatever it was and chickens; carried by wild birds. i don't think the usda would be looking for mareks so at a loss...

But that could explain a lot.....