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[donnie]

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joe , when they weather starts clearing up , hold back about 6 eggs for me since your hording up the hens eggs i had ya pick up lol

 

[Greybear23]

You can get you one of the 30 gallon or 20 gallon square totes and a clip on light fixture with a 100 watt light bulb to start out as a brooder, we still use this set up and it works great. You can switch the bulb sizes to get the right temps you need, get a bag of PINE shaving for the bottom, do not use Cedar shavings!, Atwood's has chick waterers and feeders too!!!! Lynn AKA Roosterholic enabler superior!!!


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I really love my ee. I would love another. She does not lay as well as my cornish (that sounded funny saying), but she is a sweetheart.

I don't even know what to get. We are not breeding. Just for fun/eggs. We have two and can get 2-4 more. We don't want to have to build another coop lol.

 

[babyrnlc]

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I really love my ee. I would love another. She does not lay as well as my cornish (that sounded funny saying), but she is a sweetheart.

I don't even know what to get. We are not breeding. Just for fun/eggs. We have two and can get 2-4 more. We don't want to have to build another coop lol.

I think your idea of getting just a few more is great. The EEs are usually pretty easy to pick out, as are the Black Australorps (very pretty birds and good layers), and Barred Rocks - which are also very friendly and popular as layers. If you like, you can come over to my house and see what some of the breeds look like when they're grown. Atwoods in our part of the country gets their chicks from Ideal, and that is also where I got most of my hens from when they were day olds.

Sounds good. When we get over this cold, we would love to do that. I have 2 children still running a fever and I have a stuffy nose. Oh and if the roads ever melt. We are on a culdesac and so it is not very travelled, we may never get out lol. Dh has friends in trucks picking him up for work!

 

[Poco Pollo]

My all-white and all-black Ameraucanas are pure. My Wheaton and Buff hens have Ameraucanas characteristics, but the breeder I got them from didn't claim they were Ameraucanas. They all have pea combs, reddish brownish eyes, red earlobes, beards, slate blue legs with white feet bottoms, and their eggs are blue or green all the way through the shell. None of my hens have ear tuffs, which is a good thing, because I think ear tuffs are a characteristic of EEs. My rooster was all white as a hatchling, but he has a couple black feathers in his tail now that he's mature. He produces a lot of all-white chicks.

 

[donnie]

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Coral

tufts are characteristics of the auraucana

stray black feathers in the tail is common in white birds , and from what i have been told from some breeders is that if you pull that feather they usually dont come back colored ..... what breeder did you get your wheaten and buff's from ?

 

[Greybear23]

Hey Poco here are my EEs or Americaunas whichever you wanna callum!!!! LOL Lynn

Some other hens in here also!!! I have some Black Sexlinks in to try to get me some Olive Eggers!!!!

Rooster came from Monty!!!

 

[Poco Pollo]

Donnie - I misspoke. I just checked my chicken chart and found that it's my blues (which I sold), that didn't have a breeder willing to say they were really Ameraucanas. I got the Buff and the Wheaton from John Blehm, a breeder in Michigan. He has a website you can check out - - chickhatchery.com

Nice birds, Lynn. I love they way they look!

 

[CityClucks]

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I think your idea of getting just a few more is great. The EEs are usually pretty easy to pick out, as are the Black Australorps (very pretty birds and good layers), and Barred Rocks - which are also very friendly and popular as layers. If you like, you can come over to my house and see what some of the breeds look like when they're grown. Atwoods in our part of the country gets their chicks from Ideal, and that is also where I got most of my hens from when they were day olds.

Sounds good. When we get over this cold, we would love to do that. I have 2 children still running a fever and I have a stuffy nose. Oh and if the roads ever melt. We are on a culdesac and so it is not very travelled, we may never get out lol. Dh has friends in trucks picking him up for work!

Definitely let's wait until it's at least safe to get out - I'm also snowed in and relying on the kindness of others to get around.

 

[Teach97]

City has green teeth

 

[banjoejoe4783]

thanks city

DONNIE-the egg are payment for rome and bord on your girls not to mention the gas to run to springfield and back LOL