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[mjgigax]

Ameraucanas come in specific colors that breed true when bred to each other (I love this subject). They also have gray/slate colored legs and the bottoms of their feet are white. All have muffs and beards of course, and I believe Ameraucana lay blue eggs,not green. EE's lay blue or green or pink tinted or white, they can lay about any color . I think Kass covered it pretty well. Some people selling what they call 'Ameraucana' don't even realize they have Easter Eggers and not Ameraucana. I think it's kind of a silly sometimes. You can breed 2 pure Ameraucanas of different colors and if they chicks come out something other than one of the accepted Ameraucana colors then it's considered an Easter Egger. Even though it's still pure Ameraucana. Strange, huh? I've yet to see a pure Ameraucana as pretty as Kass's Easter Eggers. I'm a little partial to EE's because of hers. And the 3 EE's I've got lay HUGE pretty eggs and they lay them every day like clockwork.


Dang, you're so sweet. I feel really bad about it. Everyone else seems able to place birds and not get so attached to them and I lack whatever gene it takes to do that with some of mine. I can place them if they're still young but obviously not if I keep them around for 9 months :-/ Thanks for the hug though, I needed it.
A bit of really nice news though-the 4 Silver Phoenix chicks I got at Newcastle are all pullets Come to find out they can be sexed (in most all cases) by their chest feathers. I'm sure whoever bred them knew that. Most people who show seem to want the males because they get these really long tails. But I wanted girls. I love the Silver Duckwing color in pullets and hens. It's so pretty.

Ameraucanas and EE are sure growing on me.

I can sell some birds but...... alot of raising them still is hard.Things like having a sick bird that I can't seem to help or even one that dies suddenly without warning bothers me so much. Tonight I had a little chick that was hatched Sunday that I had to take over to jack's. Poor little thing wasn't growing and finally couldnt walk? I can't put them out of misery myself, it gives me nightmares, so I take them to Jack and help him move birds or some other work in exchange.

 

[mjgigax]

Go Cathie and Nana! Get some babies
I guess it's time to move the little Phoenix babies outside to a playpen. These guys gals are good little babies, they never try to go anywhere, just perch on the edge and watch me all the time. And talk and talk and talk.
The blue rubbermaid tub has the 5 little Cochins from MJ in it, they're only 10 days old and adorable!

Those Phoenixes are CUTE! I love talkative birds. Tonight I was holding my first hatch this year, a Calico pullet. And afteri put her back in the pen with the younger chicks she had to tell them all about it for a long time. She is teaching everybody about the perch.

 

[Ksane]

I love it when they do that

Or when one of them gets to walk around the yard with you. When they go back they brag for 20 minutes!

 

[Oakieridge]

it takes time, trial and error, adjust your temp to the hatch.. If they are early reduce the temp by 1/2 degree, if they are late increase by 1/2 degree. after 3-4 hatches you will have the incubator tuned, then its time for the hatcher.. you will learn over time about humidity and spring storms.. You have to watch humidity closely and each hatcher is different.

Thanks! We will wait until the next hatch to make any adjustments. This one started out in the LG and then it spiked a 110 for who knows how long! So we moved them to the big redwood. So that any are hatching is a miracle in my mind. Then I forgot to move them on Tuesday @@ so they didn't move until last night. The next hatch will be out of the small redwood once that one is done we will make it the hatcher.

(3 chicks out!!!! They are sleeping off their hard work for now, hopefully the rest will hatch quickly)

 

[NanaKat]

Lost two of the 3 week old CWs this afternoon...died earlier while I was gone for tests. None looked ill this morning when I was changing water and adding feed to the cages.
I had the water cooler going yesterday and today because of the heat in the hen house from the heat buildup outside and the brooder lights over the babies. It keeps the hen houses about 85 degrees.

Then Carl lifted my spirits by calling with the news that the d'Anvers were "Popping out like popcorn" two days early!

Going back to catch up on all the news. bbl

 

[Oakieridge]

I love it when they do that

Or when one of them gets to walk around the yard with you. When they go back they brag for 20 minutes!

LOL Kurt got the 7 little banty cochins from Blanchard a few months ago, he has had them out in the yard playing with him each day. Today I had to send him to the garden to get me a shovel while they were out. They all tried to follow him to the garden. He had to stop twice and shoo them back towards the yard. IT was so cute watching them follow him like little puppies. These little cochins are growing on me. Are the LF cochins as personable as the banties?

 

[Ksane]

Oh yea. Cochins will always be my favorite. They do eat a lot though. So if you're happy with the bantams you might stick with them

 

[Oakieridge]

Oh yea. Cochins will always be my favorite. They do eat a lot though. So if you're happy with the bantams you might stick with them

So glad you brought that angle up, we are perfectly happy with the little guys. Those little chicks of yours perched on the side of their brooder is adorable!

 

[Kassaundra]

Lost two of the 3 week old CWs this afternoon...died earlier while I was gone for tests. None looked ill this morning when I was changing water and adding feed to the cages.
I had the water cooler going yesterday and today because of the heat in the hen house from the heat buildup outside and the brooder lights over the babies. It keeps the hen houses about 85 degrees.

Then Carl lifted my spirits by calling with the news that the d'Anvers were "Popping out like popcorn" two days early!

Going back to catch up on all the news. bbl

Do you know any results yet?? Sorry about the CW's, but

for the new babies.

 

[Kassaundra]

LOL Kurt got the 7 little banty cochins from Blanchard a few months ago, he has had them out in the yard playing with him each day. Today I had to send him to the garden to get me a shovel while they were out. They all tried to follow him to the garden. He had to stop twice and shoo them back towards the yard. IT was so cute watching them follow him like little puppies. These little cochins are growing on me. Are the LF cochins as personable as the banties?

Mine think I'm the high preistess (sp) of the great and all powerfull worm finding god (shovel). If they see the shovel (or the dubia bucket) there is no getting rid of them.