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[mlaff]

I'm officially on a look out for frizzled polish for my step son. I found my isbars and I guess ill have to try ccl again later on down the road. Thinking of doing another isbar and chocolate orp hatch in the fall too depending on what I hatch out. Oh my my my DH is gonna have a fit.

 

[loveourbirds]

I a looking to do pure breds not mutts

ok, lets start from the beginning; are you wanting to breed EE's, amaraucanas, or araucanas? my thoughts were you wanted to add in another line, to increase diversity and health on amaraucanas. if your breeding amaraucanas it wont hurt to mix in silver EE (recommended), or another similar sized and shaped bird. if you use a similar bird, I would look and try to find what they used to create the breed. determine from there what side of the breed you need to breed back for diversity. breed father to daughter culling agressivly. anything over the 8th generation is considered "true blood", to the best of my knowledge there is no "pure blood" in ameraucanas.

if your breeding EE's its a true muddy line. most breeders of EE's breed toward blue egg color, or breed for variety of egg color. keeping track of the offspring's egg colors sort out 2 year old roosters for traits you desire. if you decide to breed an EE for color, its best to match the qualities you want in both the hen and rooster. cull offspring aggressively and line breed.

araucanas to the best of my knowledge there are no true araucanas in the US. I could be wrong I have been wrong before. If by chance you do have true "pure blood" araucanas you would have to breed to pure araucanas to keep the line "pure blood". if its a crossed line, and I think they are - it doesn't hurt to out breed and breed back for purity. but, you will never have "pure blood"

both "pure blood" and "true blood" are showable and when bread correctly would be nearly impossible to tell apart without looking at dna. if I did have a "pure blood" line I would not cross it up unless I just had to. for instance, when I get the brussbars - I will breed 3 lines from them. there will be the "pure blood" line developed in the UK, then there will be a recreated line developed in Canada using a wrong, but very similar Sussex. (at least this is what ive been told by a Sussex breeder, still learning about that breed too) I will also do a cross between highly selected roosters in the Canadian line with a couple pullets from the UK line for some genetic diversity.

I hope this helps.

 

[cluckitall]

Those are my little chocolate orps. One ended up being a black orp. With 2 more to go it looks like so far there is only the one girl.

I got six out of my hatch so far -- four more eggs in the bator still, but they may be quitters. Can't tell sex yet, though.

 

[mlaff]

I got six out of my hatch so far -- four more eggs in the bator still, but they may be quitters. Can't tell sex yet, though.

I have one left. The last one looks to be a boy too. Urg! So happy with the hatch rate but it is so hard to find people to buy cockerels.plus it doesn't help with my goal in breeding ccl.

 

[OHfarmerswife]

ok, lets start from the beginning; are you wanting to breed EE's, amaraucanas, or araucanas?  my thoughts were you wanted to add in another line, to increase diversity and health on amaraucanas.  if your breeding amaraucanas it wont hurt to mix in silver EE (recommended), or another similar sized and shaped bird. if you use a similar bird, I would look and try to find what they used to create the breed. determine from there what side of the breed you need to breed back for diversity. breed father to daughter culling agressivly. anything over the 8th generation is considered "true blood", to the best of my knowledge there is no "pure blood" in ameraucanas. 

if your breeding EE's its a true muddy line.  most breeders of EE's breed toward blue egg color, or breed for variety of egg color. keeping track of the offspring's egg colors sort out 2 year old roosters for traits you desire. if you decide to breed an EE for color, its best to match the qualities you want in both the hen and rooster. cull offspring aggressively and line breed.

araucanas to the best of my knowledge there are no true araucanas in the US.  I could be wrong I have been wrong before.  If by chance you do have true "pure blood" araucanas you would have to breed to pure araucanas to keep the line "pure blood".  if its a crossed line, and I think they are - it doesn't hurt to out breed and breed back for purity. but, you will never have "pure blood"

both "pure blood" and "true blood" are showable and when bread correctly would be nearly impossible to tell apart without looking at dna.  if I did have a "pure blood" line I would not cross it up unless I just had to. for instance, when I get the brussbars - I will breed 3 lines from them.  there will be the "pure blood" line developed in the UK, then there will be a recreated line developed in Canada using a wrong, but very similar Sussex. (at least this is what ive been told by a Sussex breeder, still learning about that breed too) I will also do a cross between highly selected roosters in the Canadian line with a couple pullets from the UK line for some genetic diversity.

I hope this helps.

I guess I didn't make myself clear. Sorry new at this.
I need to find a new line, or different line if SA

 

[mlaff]

Okay cluckitall i took top and face pictures of everything except the little chipmunk girl. Hopefully I can give you a better idea. Except for the girl none of them looked like the picture i tried to use for reference. Most of them have a more brown color instead of the silver.
Baby 1



baby 2

3(think boy bc he is the most silver colored)



baby 4



baby 5



baby 6 (thinking boy for sure)



baby 7



baby 8



baby 9 (boy? no eye liner)



baby 10


even the for sure girl has a lighter area on the top of her head. This isn't as easy as I thought it would be. I thought only the girls had the eye liner. Oh my my my

 

[mlaff]

Sorry the pictures are so big and please ignore my daughter's messy room and her lack of clothing. LOL I'm glad I live where I do because she would live naked if I would let her.

 

[minihorse927]

Well I have good and bad news for the end of the day. My cochin with cocci is acting a lot better today, actually screeched and ran away from me.

My mystery illness grey call duck that has been in the house under intensive care gave up on me today while I was at work. I havent been able to get her to eat or drink much in almost a week. No one could tell me for sure what was wrong. None of the vets knew and the only symptoms were brown watery diarrhea, lethargic, not really wanting to eat or drink. Slept all day. I'm honestly clueless on how old this one was but was told she was only a year old this year. She was not egg bound and no funky odors or infections coming out from anywhere.

Lastly, two or three days ago when I was bringing in the pekin ducks for the night I was doing my nightly once over for injuries and one of the hens had bubbles in one eye and she had some redness around the eye. I treated it with vetricyn that night and since then 2X's a day. This morning it actually looked a little better but when I come home from work and went to put them up and treat her she had some blood and a small amount of pus/infection on her head. I sprayed vetricyn and cleaned it up and her eye is gone! I don't quite understand how it went from looking pretty good other than watering this morning to that. I'm not even sure what happened for her to end up with the injury in the first place. I'm guessing she hit it on something, maybe fence, or the broody pekin hen pecked her in the eye. She doesn't like anyone near her nest. I really don't see the pekins go back there to where she is at but I'm thinking of any possibilities. Once cleaned up other than some redness I do not see any infections or injury in what is left in the socket. I'm not quite sure what to do now other than keeping it clean. Should i have the vet stitch it shut until it repairs itself? I've dealt with tons of eye infections and injuries but this is the first one I have had lose the eye. The rest recovered completely other than one little pullet that was given to me and her eye ulcerated bad enough she went blind but went on to live a great life for 5or 6 years and the eye was always still there. Anyone have any ideas on this?

 

[loveourbirds]

I guess I didn't make myself clear. Sorry new at this.
I need to find a new line, or different line if SA

im going to take SA as silver araucana. do you want a tailless or tailed? are you breeding purity for blue eggs? what line are you breeding? ill see if I can find another good line.

 

[loveourbirds]

Well I have good and bad news for the end of the day. My cochin with cocci is acting a lot better today, actually screeched and ran away from me.

My mystery illness grey call duck that has been in the house under intensive care gave up on me today while I was at work. I havent been able to get her to eat or drink much in almost a week. No one could tell me for sure what was wrong. None of the vets knew and the only symptoms were brown watery diarrhea, lethargic, not really wanting to eat or drink. Slept all day. I'm honestly clueless on how old this one was but was told she was only a year old this year. She was not egg bound and no funky odors or infections coming out from anywhere.

Lastly, two or three days ago when I was bringing in the pekin ducks for the night I was doing my nightly once over for injuries and one of the hens had bubbles in one eye and she had some redness around the eye. I treated it with vetricyn that night and since then 2X's a day. This morning it actually looked a little better but when I come home from work and went to put them up and treat her she had some blood and a small amount of pus/infection on her head. I sprayed vetricyn and cleaned it up and her eye is gone! I don't quite understand how it went from looking pretty good other than watering this morning to that. I'm not even sure what happened for her to end up with the injury in the first place. I'm guessing she hit it on something, maybe fence, or the broody pekin hen pecked her in the eye. She doesn't like anyone near her nest. I really don't see the pekins go back there to where she is at but I'm thinking of any possibilities. Once cleaned up other than some redness I do not see any infections or injury in what is left in the socket. I'm not quite sure what to do now other than keeping it clean. Should i have the vet stitch it shut until it repairs itself? I've dealt with tons of eye infections and injuries but this is the first one I have had lose the eye. The rest recovered completely other than one little pullet that was given to me and her eye ulcerated bad enough she went blind but went on to live a great life for 5or 6 years and the eye was always still there. Anyone have any ideas on this?

ive had a couple get pecked and lose an eyeball. in summer the biggest thing is cleaning it, put on an antibiotic eye ointment terramyacin or something like that, I may have misspelled it. your biggest issue after that is keeping the flies off of it. in the house may help, but don't baby her to much as the heat shock bringing her out could be fatal in this weather.