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[BullChick]

Cool!

She may not be happy if you try to eat them though!

Anyone in Clearfield County or near by interested in a SLW rooster? Almost 18 weeks old. We have a couple of roosters and he doesn't play well with them. He plucks out their tail feathers. He is a beautiful bird, bUT he has to go. Would like him to go some where he won't be stew meat!!!

Sorry. Sounds like that is his fate.

..morning....how is the little one doing this morning?

She is stinky! I had just had the "poop" goes in the toilet talk with her (btw, she was doing great potty training earlier this year. Now it isn't happening) and she pooped again five minutes later.
I went to get a diaper (I have stopped supplying 90 % of her diapers and 60% of her juice and milk) and discovered clothes soaked in urine just tossed in the diaper bag with clean stuff.
Curdled milk is dealt with, and laundry in a few minutes.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Anyone looking for a narragessett turkey hen I am selling one for 15 dollars, and I can't drive more than maybe 10 minutes away to meet someone so your better off just to come pick her up if interested. She just don't get along with the chickens we just got done doing bumble foot surgery to one of our hens and she was attacking her through the cage this isn't the first time she has done it she does it daily as she gets off her nest. And if no one is interested then she will be going to sale tomarrow, or in some turkey pot pie.ni am asking 15 maybe less idk. It still won't let me upload pics so if you have Facebook I can message you through that.

 

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Originally Posted by dheltzel
The price is usually a good indication. I know of 2 larger hatcheries selling true, purebred Ams (Myer sells blues for $15+, Cackle has blacks for $12). Both sell Easter Eggers for under $5 and are careful to make the distinction (to justify the higher price).
But price is not a guarantee, someone could mark up an EE, and the local Agway was selling my purebred blue and black Ams for $4 - $8 each.
Really, the hatchery EE's are fantastic birds, colorful and good layers. The one thing they can't guarantee is the egg color of a particular chick, that requires more controlled breeding than a hatchery typically cares to do. But as general purpose egg layers of colorful eggs, they are hard to beat.
I love Ameraucanas. I invested a lot in about 100 chicks from a show breeder in Michigan (John Blehm) so that I could offer chicks locally and cheaper next year. I hope to have blacks and silvers, along with the Lavenders. I'm also trying to get my Wheatens to hatch better to build up my numbers of them. Wheatens and Silvers have distinctive coloring that allows them to be sexed at a much younger age than the blacks and lavs. The Lavenders are pretty, as are the silvers and Wheatens, but a good black is the prettiest of them all, IMO. They sparkle in the sunlight and lay such blue eggs.



I am guessing that I brought some of your stock from the local Away. They were in a bin labeled blue egg laying Black Sexlinks. Very nice pullets. They sure look like Ameraucanas to me, muffs, beards and slate shanks and beaks. I will find out in a couple of months, but are blue- olive eggs possible with these black sexlinks?

 

[stake]

Good afternoon all:

Quite an unusual day....came home from work and let the dog and chickens out....well dog corners a wounded ground hog....about a 5-7 pounder...it wasn't moving well and had a mark on its back....so, called the dog off and put him in the house....I pushed the critter with a garden hoe...(sometimes throwing him if he bit the hoe) over towards the fence where there is a small hole....well, he left....I think the fox came in and made a run at him....not sure what else would target a ground hog in mid-day....had some red tails screeching this am though...

and, .two chicks hatched (had to help the second) and two more pips....I really hate waiting on the hatch....I have had so many get to lockdown and quit....

 

[BullChick]

Good afternoon all:

Quite an unusual day....came home from work and let the dog and chickens out....well dog corners a wounded ground hog....about a 5-7 pounder...it wasn't moving well and had a mark on its back....so, called the dog off and put him in the house....I pushed the critter with a garden hoe...(sometimes throwing him if he bit the hoe) over towards the fence where there is a small hole....well, he left....I think the fox came in and made a run at him....not sure what else would target a ground hog in mid-day....had some red tails screeching this am though...

and, .two chicks hatched (had to help the second) and two more pips....I really hate waiting on the hatch....I have had so many get to lockdown and quit....

Well, congratulations on the hatch, and I hope all goes well with the rest!
I kinda feel bad for Phil. Stinks to suffer like that. Glad it wasn't one of your birds though.

 

[TillyPeeps]

 Originally Posted by dheltzel  
The price is usually a good indication. I know of 2 larger hatcheries selling true, purebred Ams (Myer sells blues for $15+, Cackle has blacks for $12). Both sell Easter Eggers for under $5 and are careful to make the distinction (to justify the higher price).
But price is not a guarantee, someone could mark up an EE, and the local Agway was selling my purebred blue and black Ams for $4 - $8 each.
Really, the hatchery EE's are fantastic birds, colorful and good layers. The one thing they can't guarantee is the egg color of a particular chick, that requires more controlled breeding than a hatchery typically cares to do. But as general purpose egg layers of colorful eggs, they are hard to beat.
I love Ameraucanas. I invested a lot in about 100 chicks from a show breeder in Michigan (John Blehm) so that I could offer chicks locally and cheaper next year. I hope to have blacks and silvers, along with the Lavenders. I'm also trying to get my Wheatens to hatch better to build up my numbers of them. Wheatens and Silvers have distinctive coloring that allows them to be sexed at a much younger age than the blacks and lavs. The Lavenders are pretty, as are the silvers and Wheatens, but a good black is the prettiest of them all, IMO. They sparkle in the sunlight and lay such blue eggs.

 

  

 

​  I am guessing that I brought some of your stock from the local Away. They were in a bin labeled blue egg laying Black Sexlinks. Very nice pullets. They sure look like Ameraucanas to me, muffs, beards and slate shanks and beaks. I will find out in a couple of months, but are blue- olive eggs possible with these black sexlinks? 

They do lay blue eggs. If you look further back to this thread, you can find some of them from dheltzel start to lay recently. All eggs are blue. And they're fantastic layers. My Brownie never missed one day of laying for last two weeks. My other Rhodebar girl also never missed a day since she started. dheltzel has some awesome birds.

 

[dheltzel]

I am guessing that I brought some of your stock from the local Away. They were in a bin labeled blue egg laying Black Sexlinks. Very nice pullets. They sure look like Ameraucanas to me, muffs, beards and slate shanks and beaks. I will find out in a couple of months, but are blue- olive eggs possible with these black sexlinks?

Yes, those are mine! They do look like Ameraucanas, I'm careful never to mix the chicks because I doubt I could separate them with certainty when they mature. The Ameraucana genes are strong in these birds. If you want to compare their combs with a true pea comb from a show winning Ameraucana, I think you may see some differences. I don't show my birds, but it would be tempting to put one into a show and see how it does against really good black Ams. It would not likely win, but I can't see anything that would disqualify it from being shown as an Ameraucana.

One reason for using a white egg layer for the maternal parent is to remove some of the residual green and provide a "purer" blue. Some of my Am eggs are more turquoise than sky blue. Personally, I think the turquoise eggs are gorgeous, as are the very pure blue ones. They definitely go lighter in color faster than purebred Ameraucanas, though I think a lot of that is that they lay so many more eggs and they simply run out of blue pigment (hardly a fault, right?). So I don't think you will get green eggs from these. I have a few "olive eggers" left, they hatched on 6/3. These are definitely gonna lay some shade of green. Green egg color is highly variable. They hatched from olive eggs that resulted from a cross of a Cream Legbar and a Welsummer. They look a lot like a cream legbar, another case where I have to keep them separate or band them.

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

Good morning all,

**dheltzel- you have beautiful birds. I think at some point in our chicken raising, it would be very nice to add colorful egg layers.

Had taken more pics yesterday, wanted to share some with you all...

these are the two new girls, hatchery barred rocks(12weeks). To the Left-Thelma & on the Right-Louise
The only difference between the two is Louise has a slight deviation in her comb.I don't think you can see it in this pic, but a straight -on look at her it's obvious.

Ginger is now on "broody Time Out"... this will last about a week, usually not long. Doing this is the only way to get our egg laying back. This is Gingers 2nd time in the cage this season.
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some of the other girls, the two on the right are from MC..she was enabling...i mean, helping me add to my flock...

, cordon hatched those two.

this guy is just cool. Hope everyone is having a great day !

 

[fisherlady]

Good morning all, **dheltzel- you have beautiful birds. I think at some point in our chicken raising, it would be very nice to add colorful egg layers. Had taken more pics yesterday, wanted to share some with you all... these are the two new girls, hatchery barred rocks(12weeks). To the Left-Thelma & on the Right-Louise The only difference between the two is Louise has a slight deviation in her comb.I don't think you can see it in this pic, but a straight -on look at her it's obvious. Ginger is now on "broody Time Out"... this will last about a week, usually not long. Doing this is the only way to get our egg laying back. This is Gingers 2nd time in the cage this season. , some of the other girls, the two on the right are from MC..she was enabling...i mean, helping me add to my flock... , cordon hatched those two. this guy is just cool. Hope everyone is having a great day !

Loving the pictures!

 

[BullChick]

If I can't enable, what use am I?