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[missnu01]

I try to talk to my girls too.  They still flee from me when I want to pick them up.  (all but "scissor". maybe cause she's little and under-developed) Only come to eat the cabbage treats I give them occasionally. 

My chickens will come to me, and don't run away, but if I try to touch them they just take one step out of reach. I would say that scissor doesn't run away because you have handled her more. I ha a chick get sick and while all his hatch mates would run away at the time he always ran to me to e petted and loved on

 

[TarheelBirdy]

Your Amerraucana's look a bit like EE's. The feather and leg coloring are similar to my EE's.

Aren't Ameraucanas basically the same breeding as EEs? That's how my friend who breeds true Ameraucanas explained it - EEs are basically Ameraucana breeding but that don't quite meet APA requirements. These come from eggs from my friend who breeds beautiful show quality Ameraucanas (and Black Australorps and Buff Cochins) - I'm so lucky to know her because she loves to trade out for my eggs and chicks....I have a few beautiful Ameraucanas in my breakfast-egg-laying group, just because I love the egg colors.

 

[missnu01]

Easter eggers are a mutt mixed with an actual auracana or however it's spelled...so like you take a leghorn and mix it with the true auracana, and those chicks would be Easter eggers...at least I think that's how it all went down..that is why they look so different. They are all possibly mixed with a different second Breed way back when. Maybe a rock, or rir...could be anything. An EE is a mutt chicken that lays colored eggs

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Took Levi and Reilly to the vet this morning, which was fun. I had planned on calling from the parking lot as I usually do, because they'll send someone to help out. Turns out I left my phone on the table. So I'm trying walk in with only one stick, one 175 pound mastiff, and a 75 pound Great Dane puppy. I ended up leaning my stick against the building and abandoning it, and grabbing Reilly by the collar for balance, even though he's not my service dog and wouldn't know how to balance me. We made it inside, and one of the girls took Levi as we headed to a room.

Reilly is now on antibiotics for his abscessing hygroma. Levi has another appointment next week so the vet who performed his eye surgery can look at the one stitch that pulled through and see if it needs replacing or not.

The staff babysat Levi while I got Reilly in the car and retrieved by stick. Then I came back for Levi and found him sprawled on laps of people sitting on the floor with him. They do spoil my dogs there. All of mine love going to the vet, although they don't like "The Back Room" so much.

I had chores to finish when I got home. The dogs hadn't been fed, and the birds in quarantine hadn't been checked.

I put six more turkey eggs in the incubator...that makes 36 total...this morning. Let's hope those boys have been doing their jobs! And I put 48 button quail eggs into lockdown. I didn't even try to candle all those, so we'll see what happens. I've got Cuckoo Marans and BBS English Orps going in tomorrow. Those last are very special eggs, so keep those crossables crossed for them!

Hope your day is going well!

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

On the Ameraucana/Araucana/EE thing...you've got three different types. Araucanas are the rumpless blue egg layers. Ameraucanas have certain standards that must be met, including slate legs, muff and beard, and blue eggs, not green. EEs are mutt crosses of either of the others which lay blue, green, or brown eggs. They usually have greenish legs. They are also any Ameraucana that is the wrong color or type, or lays eggs of the wrong color. You can have a gorgeous Wheaten and cross it with a gorgeous black, but the resulting color is not acceptable, so the bird is just an EE. So you've got more than one way to get an EE. But if it doesn't meet standards, it's not an Ameraucana.

 

[atmaclean]

I've got a few young, rare-breed, healthy cockerels I need to re-home. 3 BCMS, 1 BLRW, and I can part with 1 Isbar cockerel. Also have a lemon cuckoo orphington that is almost a year old and gorgeous.

Any ideas on a good place to offer them for sale? I'd rather they not be eaten....

Angela

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

I just had to come on and share with you my "tragic" morning!! I went out to do the usual chores - feed everyone, clean out mini pond for the ducks (which inevitably ends up being the communal drinking pool), filled up waterers and check for eggs & wellness. Anyway, I am cleaning out our purple mini pool and what do you think happens to me? A HUGE spider jumps from behind the pool onto the run's fencing and starts climbing up BY MY HEAD!! I am SO proud of myself...I resisted the urge to a) SCREAM like the sissy I am and run for the house and b) Find the nearest blunt object and smash it to death and then some. I believe it was what was once explained to me as a water spider (I swear it looked like a small tarantula!!) and since they are not poisonous and/or harmful, I let it alone. <pats self on back> LOL...let's just say that it was still VERY traumatic for me. LOL. It's going to be one of THOSE days I think!! LOL

 

[missnu01]

I would have killed it to pieces. I ha a water spider bite me on my ear growing up. I was swimming and I came up and I guess I came up under it..either way it bit me on my ear lobe. Stung bad

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

I just had to come on and share with you my "tragic" morning!! I went out to do the usual chores - feed everyone, clean out mini pond for the ducks (which inevitably ends up being the communal drinking pool), filled up waterers and check for eggs & wellness. Anyway, I am cleaning out our purple mini pool and what do you think happens to me? A HUGE spider jumps from behind the pool onto the run's fencing and starts climbing up BY MY HEAD!! I am SO proud of myself...I resisted the urge to a) SCREAM like the sissy I am and run for the house and b) Find the nearest blunt object and smash it to death and then some. I believe it was what was once explained to me as a water spider (I swear it looked like a small tarantula!!) and since they are not poisonous and/or harmful, I let it alone. LOL...let's just say that it was still VERY traumatic for me. LOL. It's going to be one of THOSE days I think!! LOL

I am so proud of you! We covered arachnids in class just yesterday, and I had people screaming about Pictures! Having one by your head when you don't care for such things took much more control than those two students had! Maybe I should take a live one to class...... Or not. But good for you, NH. That spider will help keep the flies and mosquitoes and cockroaches down for you!

 

[BHep]

Aren't Ameraucanas basically the same breeding as EEs? That's how my friend who breeds true Ameraucanas explained it - EEs are basically Ameraucana breeding but that don't quite meet APA requirements. These come from eggs from my friend who breeds beautiful show quality Ameraucanas (and Black Australorps and Buff Cochins) - I'm so lucky to know her because she loves to trade out for my eggs and chicks....I have a few beautiful Ameraucanas in my breakfast-egg-laying group, just because I love the egg colors.

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2011/09/ameraucana-easter-egger-or-araucana.html