Surviving Minnesota!

[BantyChooks]

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The double dosed cuckoo lavender rooster.

That's one beautiful bird.

 

[holm25]

One day I'm going to get some real Ameraucanas.... One day... lol

 

[BantyChooks]

One day I'm going to get some real Ameraucanas.... One day... lol

Ditto that. I'm tired of the hatchery stock EEs with endless lists of temperament and structure issues so common on hatchery birds.

 

[holm25]

Ditto that. I'm tired of the hatchery stock EEs with endless lists of temperament and structure issues so common on hatchery birds.

EEs have issues lol. I have lots of egg issues with mine... Always laying no shell or soft shells... Only the EEs have that issue... Plus after seeing Minnies Black Ameraucanas I decided I needed some...

 

[BantyChooks]

EEs have issues lol. I have lots of egg issues with mine... Always laying no shell or soft shells... Only the EEs have that issue... Plus after seeing Minnies Black Ameraucanas I decided I needed some...

Their laying issues seem to have passed on to the EE crossbreds I have. I'm finding one soft shell blue egg almost every day and there's only two or three blue egg laying birds. Pretty bad, eh?

It's the Silver variety that caught my eye. There's a local breeder of them too, so I don't even have to drive hours.... Maybe by 2020.

 

[I Love Layers]

I absolutely hate my EEs! When they finally lay eggs for the few months a year they all lay, every single day. But the rest of the year not a single egg. And they always are the first to start hiding eggs! Although I do have one white one I absolutely love I am sticking with leghorns and sexlinks now, they like to lay in the coop and they lay all year.

Up to 4 cochin eggs now. Not to bad for the 3 females in 2 days.

 

[BantyChooks]

I absolutely hate my EEs! When they finally lay eggs for the few months a year they all lay, every single day. But the rest of the year not a single egg. And they always are the first to start hiding eggs! Although I do have one white one I absolutely love I am sticking with leghorns and sexlinks now, they like to lay in the coop and they lay all year.

Up to 4 cochin eggs now. Not to bad for the 3 females in 2 days.

I'm spoiled now, with my fancy bred heritage birds. I'm looking at my hatchery stock and thinking "Why am I keeping these things again?"

They're just so much better than hatchery birds in every way.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

One day I'm going to get some real Ameraucanas.... One day... lol

Holms I've got a whole vat of them not far from you! LOL. Just kidding Jerry. I do love their blue eggs. And for those of us that may be used to seeing blue and green chicken eggs. I still LOVE the reaction of those that have not. "What?! is that a chicken egg?

 

[I Love Layers]

I'm spoiled now, with my fancy bred heritage birds. I'm looking at my hatchery stock and thinking "Why am I keeping these things again?"

They're just so much better than hatchery birds in every way.

I love my cochins. I always think why not ditch the layers and just have cochins. To bad that is not realistic

 

[duluthralphie]

I love my EE!!!!