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The swap was nice yesterday! The weather was beautiful too. I unloaded 19 chicks, 9 turkey poults and a few hen saddles lol. We had a really nice crowd in the first hour. It fizzled out by about noon.

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LeBlackbird said:
Saw the PA list and am trying to post a reply to everyone on it. I suppose I have to post to each profile individually? I am in Dillsburg, PA. Since moving out to the country we've found a new human species...Chicken lovers. Just about every other property owner is raising chickens. Every morning we wake up to the roosters calling out in turn. It's such a joy in life. The world can go to hell in a hand basket, but when I'm with our flock the world outside doesn't exist.
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feliciadawn said:
Oh no! Ameraunas are the best for me. Will you still have silkied ones in the future?
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No, none of the chicks I hatch this year care silkied, so the gene is effectively lost from my flock. It used to be that real Ameraucanas were hard to find and the "best" blue egg layers. Legbars are much better though in nearly every respect, so I want to focus on improving the Legbar breed even more. I am making progress with the Opals and expect my Opals next year to be much better than what I am able to offer this year.
I am trying to cut back on the hatching to align to the greatly reduced demand for chicks, but it is really hard to not set those beautiful blue eggs!
 
dheltzel said:
No, none of the chicks I hatch this year care silkied, so the gene is effectively lost from my flock. It used to be that real Ameraucanas were hard to find and the "best" blue egg layers. Legbars are much better though in nearly every respect, so I want to focus on improving the Legbar breed even more. I am making progress with the Opals and expect my Opals next year to be much better than what I am able to offer this year.
I am trying to cut back on the hatching to align to the greatly reduced demand for chicks, but it is really hard to not set those beautiful blue eggs!
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Really? That is sad to hear.
 
dheltzel said:
I have noticed that some breeds lay in spurts, where for a period of time they lay an egg nearly every day. Ducks are like that too. These breeds usually start later and stop earlier than the "laying breeds" like Welbars and Legbars. I don't keep such good records of individual hens, but in some cases I can tell because of egg color or separate confinement.
Right now I am getting loads of Ameraucana eggs and eating most of them because there is little demand, even for sexed chicks. The confusion with hatchery Ameraucanas has devalued the real one for many people.

This is likely to be my last year with large fowl Ameraucanas. I will keep the bantams, and maybe the Mottleds if they should happen to do better this year than previous years.
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Your going to stop breeding the large fowl Ameraucanas? That is sad to hear, I was really hoping to get your stock when I was older.
 

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