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.
