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[WestKnollAmy]

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We are the enablers! There is always something new and beautiful to attract you on here. I have to worry my DH will see it and want it more so than myself.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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How far are you from NC state line at I-77?

Kenneth

I am 1 1/2 hours from Charlotte. I am outside a small town called Inman.
Are you near Lake Wylie?

 

[phoneman]

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How far are you from NC state line at I-77?

Kenneth

I am 1 1/2 hours from Charlotte. I am outside a small town called Inman.
Are you near Lake Wylie?

i was looking on your web site and its very nice. i did not see your ameraucanas. i thought you was raising amerauanas

 

[Southern Bee Lady]

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coywade,

I live near Pickens. I will have hatching eggs in the spring. B/B/Splash orpingtons and hopefully silkies.

Anyway I can help, just let me know.

Mary

Mary,

I would love to connect with you anytime! I am not terribly familiar with either of those breeds. I have heard of both but thats about it. I don't know the rules on here yet...can I give you a phone number for you to call me when yours are ready?

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[WestKnollAmy]

I am raising up a nice bunch of juvie Ameraucanas. I am working on the page. My flocks are still young and once I put up a page I get overwhelmed with emails about eggs, chicks and breeding adults. So until they get closer to laying I try not to have a page up.
I took down my page on Araucanas because of all the emails I would get about them. Most people could not afford them and would try to talk me down on price. I seriously did not have time to deal with people that do not understand that breed so I just took the page down and now get a few emails from serious breeders that know what I have.

Everyone, it seems, has Ameraucanas. I am still trying to figure out the best route to take mine to make them special. They are all very pretty but in this market you have to make the ones you have stand out more than others. I am probably going to do the same boring thing as everyone else for a while and work on a project in the background.

My Easter Eggers sold like mad. Eggs and chicks. I am not sure I want to breed pure Ameraucanas since they are very limited on what colors you can have. The EEs are more fun and backyard enthusiasts enjoy feather diversity a bit more. Egg color will probably be my main goal. So many bloodlines fade as time goes on and my EEs were very good to keep that rich intense color throughout the season. I will probably select and breed for more egg color than for a breed that can be shown. Although, the bloodlines I got my hatching eggs from were selected for very good egg color.

 

[NellaBean]

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You are a dear!
Are you not coming down to the rabbit show in Columbia SC in a few weeks? I have some folks from Sieverville TN that we show Guinea Pigs with that is stopping by to pick up a bunch of Cochins from me that weekend. We are not going to the show because DD has nothing much left to show and has lost interest. No more breeding and she is down to almost 50 piggies now. She doesn't want to go off to college and have them all left here for me to care for so she has stopped breeding.

I like the way he looks. Not badly typed at all so my solid black girls may be just the ticket in that pen. Naturally my typy roos are either MF crosses or too black. Oy!

Would the sevierville people be interested in transporting him down? I could bring him over to them before the trip (depending on when it is). That would get him to you much sooner. I am going to look through my cochin hens and probably cull all of the very mottled but lacking type girls. They are still better than hatchery but when I have a few girls as nice as I do, I am better off just breeding them and growing up their babies for a year, than keeping these. I am going to use my new blue mottled rooster over my nice black mottled girls to get some more nice blacks, but I do have 2 nice boys growing up from mr Mottleds kids......just will probably take another 6 months to get them fertile.

 

[Lroach711]

Ok, I have a question for those of you who know about marans. I have 2 pullets. They are about 7 months old. Both of them have started laying but haven't layed in a while. One lays a pretty dark egg but the other lays a very brittle rough feeling egg that isn't the right color. It's like the true color is covered up by whatevers causing the rough feeling on the egg. I got one of those eggs today, but threw it out before I thought to take a pic. They have free choice of oyster shell in the coop and are on a mixture of laying pellets and different whole grains. Will it just take time for her eggs to be normal?

 

[coywade]

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Mary,

I would love to connect with you anytime! I am not terribly familiar with either of those breeds. I have heard of both but thats about it. I don't know the rules on here yet...can I give you a phone number for you to call me when yours are ready?

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[email protected]

I think now that I see your email I met you at the Pickens County Beekeepers Association Meetings. Would that be you?

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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I will ask them. He works as office manager/head tech in a 7 Dr vet practice and it runs late but I think his wife gets home earlier and maybe his Mom lives right beside them but can't remember. Someone should be home on Friday night if you live close enough to drop him off. They will probably want some of her hens, too. They don't want a lot but his mom just adores the bantam Cochins and they have gotten some from me before. They are wanting to buy some from me now but you know I just don't have much to sell. I think I have one pair of Mottleds right now that can go, otherwise I, like you, am hanging on to what I have to see it grow up.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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I think now that I see your email I met you at the Pickens County Beekeepers Association Meetings. Would that be you?

That would probably be Mary. Soft spoken, sweet and always smiling!