New Ameraucana flock with PICS !!!!

[hcammack]

Thanks they are not to tame

but we can fix that with a little scratch

 

[hcammack]

I will try and have my Mom take pictures while I am away and send them to me to post as I won't be home to take them. I bet these girls will look much prettier later.

Henry

 

[EweSheep]

That splash girl is so lovely!

 

[hcammack]

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Thanks I had to plow through 150 Marans, Ameraucana, Delaware, and welsummer to get her. She was the only splash pullet he had. I caught her and then she escaped after I said I want her and then I caught her again and got her but is was hard work

 

[hcammack]

Just went out to check the birds and the little black pullet is not in the cage and I thought oh no she is crushed by the big hens and she was just snuggled up in a pile of my 6 large hens

that is one brave little hen but she is back in with her sisters now.

 

[Mahonri]

WOW... all three are beautiful... bottom one is the bomb!!

Cool.

 

[hcammack]

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Thanks he is such a good little rooster can't wait until these little girls join his harem

 

[KayP]

Henry, beautiful birds! Good luck with them. I lost track of the killer chicken story. Did you ever figure out the perpetrator? Also, I saw your egg hatching list a bunch of pages back. that's a lot of eggs!! What will you do with that many chickens? Do you have a humungous barn?

 

[hcammack]

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LOL no those are future dreams KayP I live in the suburbs and have a small backyard flock

Thanks.

 

[hcammack]

Today I tried to intro them again and they took a beating and had allot of feathers pullet and their combs are bloody again

I have them in the cage again but may set them up in the chicken tractor for a few months while they grow out some more. My hope was that the cockeral would accept them imediatly but he and the Black Copper pullet who are the same age or only a bit older then these girls seem to be handing out the beating. If he keeps up like this I may be looking for a new boy in the fall

He is so sweet with his girls and not aggressive to me. When this happened I was out their and I defended these girls as if I were their rooster I slapped the BCM and the Cockeral around a bit and separated the girls. I would like to put them in soon but how long do you think I should wait. I thought the boy would be happy about having new girlfriends but he seems aggressive towards them!
What do you guys think I have no experaince with roosters and cockeral?

Thanks,
Henry