South Carolina

[Joycats]

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Get prepared - the only pair I've ever found within driving distance was $500.00 for the pair. Don't know about you but that was out of my farm girl budget.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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I have Ameraucanas in B/B/S, Wheaten/Blue Wheaten and Lavender.

I will have to get with you in a few months on eggs. You have every color~I for some reason thought you just raised Silkies!

 

[coleridgedane]

I traded w Lloyd for pure aracauna. I got 2 hens & a gorgeous rooster. Very different from Ameracaunas or EEs. I try to post pics tomorrow.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Yeah, I remember you have them. I thought I was on your list last spring but you kept saying you were sold out of them.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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She has tried to find a home for them for a while. I want them so much since I haven't been able to find any more local. Here is the link.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=607376

Oh Amy, they are so pretty! I think Muscovy's are the sweetest looking ducks and these are no exception!! I so love the color!

Thank you! I am excited to get them. We have been trying for months to get it all to come together and she hasn't placed them with anyone else yet so maybe it is meant to be. I sure hope so! I am the lowest I have been in birds in a while and I figure now is the time to get more of what I want.
Fingers crossed these are for me!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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I was good of your daughter to get your dog some help!

Yeah! That was the reason she got her alright! Roxy is real good to bark from under the covers at night if she hears Jolie and wants to back her up. She's a big help but stays warm while doing so!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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I think I am one of the few that does not want these birds. They are cool looking but too wild for my taste. I think a lot of birds are neat but have no desire for them, like the pheasants. They are awesome but I personally don't want any. I like my laid back, cool Cochins! The Guineas I have now are as wild and crazy as I want to get.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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I could probably take a couple off your hands but work is fixing to put me back traveling heavily a few months and I am not sure how my one mini flock of free roaming Game hens and roo would tolerate them...everyone else is in coops or...the house

Not sure if any will be here when I fly back one of these trips...LOL Have one more week home before the gauntlet of traveling starts! Already worried how my "in the house" brooding chicks will fare with Mama hen (me) gone!

Calling daughter, calling daughter! Samantha, time to take care of mama's stuff!

I would say that it is a bummer about your job but I am glad you have a job! Too many are without right now.

 

[dixiebeast]

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I could probably take a couple off your hands but work is fixing to put me back traveling heavily a few months and I am not sure how my one mini flock of free roaming Game hens and roo would tolerate them...everyone else is in coops or...the house

Not sure if any will be here when I fly back one of these trips...LOL Have one more week home before the gauntlet of traveling starts! Already worried how my "in the house" brooding chicks will fare with Mama hen (me) gone!

Calling daughter, calling daughter! Samantha, time to take care of mama's stuff!

I would say that it is a bummer about your job but I am glad you have a job! Too many are without right now.

I plan on it but her house is almost an hour away!! Although it looks like all these chicks I am hatching for her will be here a while to brood! I think her significant other will handle the big birds and I will do checks but chicks need more attention!!

I do think I am fixing to get a few guineas,with Boomer gone I can train the next LGD to be good with freerangers and we sure could use the pest control!! With the rooster attack I never wanted to try guineas,he did learn to respect my coops but I never did give him another chance,he was 12 when we started the farm but I know if he had been raised with it he would have been even more awsome!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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There is another one on here that raises Araucanas, too. They sell hatching eggs, I am not sure about chicks.

I have a quad left and seriously doubt I will part with them. A man in CA wanted them last year but never came through with the money and I do not advertise them for sale. Mine are very costly as I raise the pure rumpless and tufted ones. They are very hard to reproduce when you raise them this way. So many people like to cheat and add tailed ones but I feel that messes up the breed. I have a few chicks growing up now but do not plan to sell those either. They all look like girls this go around. Yippee!

I have 2 blue hens and a black tufted hen along with the above red/blue roo. They produced the first photoed roo above. I have always loved them but my black girl is going on 6 now, I believe and the two blues are ones that I hatched here several years ago. There eggs are pretty but smaller than what my EE's and Ameraucanas lay. I still get many requests for them in my cartons and had to take down my web page on them because so many folks wanted the birds. I don;t feel they are understood well enough to sell anymore. I will let others do that and I will just enjoy what I have. My blue girls are so friendly and want treats every time they see me. they hop right up on the door frame to be fed and petted. I like that about chickens.

It is always nice to hear about more folks with Araucanas. Gary Ramey has helped a lot of people around SC to get started with them. His birds, in any breed, have always been fabulous!