Mom had fun at TSC... again

[hypnofrogstevie]

This time she brought 12 chicks home, 8 ST run and 4 pullets. RIR, ameracaunas and white rocks.

4 of each breed.

and the ameracaunas are mine.

 

[ZooZoo]

Which TSC did you go to? Did they have a large selection of chicks or ducklings?

 

[shortcake1806]

I wish our TSC carried chics.

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

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It was sussex. They are almost out of chickens and my mom said they have alot of mallards left

 

[love-my-wolves]

Mine only sold for 2 weeks in March. Bummer!! Good buy, though, on the Sussex!

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

Thanks. I meant sussex NJ sorry. I would love to get some speckled sussex one day though

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[Chellester]

Just an FYI; usually Ameracaunas purchased from a hatchery are really EEs. True full-blood Ameracaunas are hard to come by.

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

They are brown with black on the tops of there backs. All 4 are like that. I was thinking that most EE's are mixed colors. Hopefully they are full blooded. I will post pics later on today and maybe someone will see if they are EE's or ameracaunas.

 

[hooligan]

Can't wait to see pix

I need to post up new pix of my beebees

 

[Chellester]

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Comments about these two breeds from feathersite.com for your reading pleasure:

Araucanas, Ameraucanas and Easter Egg Chickens

I don't have any purebred Araucanas. These rumpless (tail-less) and ear-tufted birds from South America are very hard to find. They are known for laying blue eggs. Most of the so-called Araucanas in the US are mixes that carry some of the original genes and lay variously colored eggs: blue, green, or pinkish. These birds are sometimes (and more honestly) sold as Easter Egg chickens. They come in white and many other colors. The American Poultry Association also recognizes a bird called the Ameraucana, which lays colored eggs and has muffs and a beard, not ear tufts, and comes in standardized color varieties. The Araucana and Ameraucana also come in a bantam form. And if you want to get even more confused, look at the (probably ancestral) Rapanui.