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[TJordan]

Sorry about the flu but YEA!!!!! for no burned chickens. You've had enough trauma without having to deal with trying to save burned birds.

So true.

 

[gpeters3]

If the chicks were chipmunk, they are NOT Ameraucana.

If your hens are laying green you are guaranteed they are neither Araucana nor Ameraucana but Easter Eggers. They have the blue egg gene and a brown egg gene. If you look at the inside of the shell it will be blue. The brown coloring on eggs is "washed on" a white shell just prior to laying but blue eggs are blue all the way through. So a green egg is actually a BLUE egg with an added brown "wash". 

One of these is laying a very pretty green egg. 3 of the chicks I bought were labeled Araucana and priced as rare birds. They do look like chipmunks but haven't really studied them yet. Seems to me that if anyone had the clout to find and buy rare birds, the big companies should be able to. It isn't really important, my goal was to get variety in my flock. If I'm fortunate enough to get some colorful eggs I'm more the happier. I have 6 new breeds in the new batch so now have 10 breeds

 

[ShrekDawg]

I'd guess it's the far left one, the colorful one. The one on the right looks like a barred rock and the middle one like a black australorp? And the 2 reds maybe production reds, rhode island red, new Hampshire red, or sex link or something? I don't know anything about Araucana or Ameraucana, but going by what bruce said, they were bred specifically for the blue gene so if they are laying green they are probably Easter Eggers. Especially colored like that. It's a mean trick but hatcheries and feed stores do do it :/ I was fortunate enough that mine came from Meyer Hatchery in Ohio and were accurately labeled as Easter Eggers which I happened to want

 

[ShrekDawg]

Oh and btw, if the others are barred rock, australorp, and some sort of red, then all the rest should lay various shades of light to medium brown

 

[Latestarter]

Have to agree with KDOG... almost 100% certain you have an EE on the far left. Prob Black Australorp, most probably a Barred (Plymouth) Rock, The two 'reds" look too dark to be a Buff Orp and too small to be rhode island red or New Hampshire so prob a sex link or production red. all brown egg layers...

 

[AminaTefla]

Okay here is mine. I got the shed on sale for 50% off end of season sale for $150. My husband who was a carpenter in another life built the platform and the inside roost.

 

[TJordan]

Well even sick my husband is outside trying to clean up the disaster area. I love that big, softhearted man. He's all "I don't want them." Then he goes and gets me 30. Then when the fire hit he said "Keep kids from seeing I'll clean up and build you a new coop."

All because 3 years ago he looked at me while we were at the feed store getting seeds for a small garden and said "Let's get some chickens."
I was hooked fast. He just gave in a few weeks ago.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Have to agree with KDOG... almost 100% certain you have an EE on the far left. Prob Black Australorp, most probably a Barred (Plymouth) Rock, The two 'reds" look too dark to be a Buff Orp and too small to be rhode island red or New Hampshire so prob a sex link or production red. all brown egg layers...

Yeah, they looked way darker than my buff orps hence some sort of red but you are right that they seem small, hadn't thought if that and don't know much about the red breeds so listed them all and I don't know about the australorp but mines are huge that one looks a bit small but could be young

 

[kathysmile]

Can't go wrong with this one I saw at greengardenchicken

 

[gpeters3]

All the hens are at least 2 yeard old. I thought the black one is a Jersey Giant. The isa reds i had were a little larger but not much. Its going to be fun to see what i have when the chicks are full grown. You would Think i could keep track of 6 or 8 chickens but i really dont know where i got the one laying the green eggs. There was another just like it but found it dead in the coop one day.