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[ThackerArrykka]

like rhode island reds hen eggs I don't mind the breed

 

[ThackerArrykka]

what color brown? like Maran's eggs? which are chocolate brown or rhode island red eggs? which are brown or dark tan?

like rhode island reds hen eggs I don't mind the breed

 

[jajeanpierre]

okay let me try this....genetics

Ameracauna's are bred using Aracauna's...rumpless, tufted true blue egg layers originally from South America

Easter eggers are various breeds that lay an array of colors of eggs bred together to get hues of blues, greens, olive (olive egger) pinks and anything else maybe a little different and Easter Egger could be a Maran's X Araucana...just as an example..see?? if I'm explaining it correctly

Well, actually, that's not quite right. Before Araucanas were an official recognized breed in the APA, there were breeders breeding their version of "Araucana." Some bred towards a goal of what is now the Araucana, others bred to what is now the Ameraucana. The APA decided, I believe on it's own without consultation with everyone involved, to a breed standard for what was named Araucaunas. At the time, there were breeders who believed the "new" breed should look like an Ameraucana. There was a division amongst the breeders of what an "Araucana" should look like and the APA decided. A few years after the Araucana was recognized by the APA, the Ameraucana was recognized. They really are breeds that were developed by breeders side by side, not one from the other. Yes, there was the blue-egg laying chickens from South America that went into both breeds. My understanding is that both breeds were developed together at the same time under the same general umbrella of "Araucana."

http://ameraucana.org/history.html

 

[hensfortherapy]

Jajeanpierre and GaryDean26. Please post the times of the Fancy Feathers show. I have looked on their Web site and can not find the times listed.
Thanks.

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucana

 

[oweirdo]

Lol, didn't mean to stir this pot up again. I love my mutt rooster, and I too think he's beautiful, err I mean handsome. And he's a good foster dad!

 

[GaryDean26]

Jajeanpierre and GaryDean26. Please post the times of the Fancy Feathers show. I have looked on their Web site and can not find the times listed.
Thanks.

The Show catalog list the following:
As far as the $47 Cream Legbars go, Myers Hatcher, My Pet Chicken, and Greenfire farms are the only hatcheries that sell them. They sell day old pullets for $49, $47, $59 respectively (plus shipping and with minimum orders).

There is really no need to buy from a hatchery if you live in Texas though. I haven't counted recently, but it was something like 20% of the nation wide Cream Legbar Club Membership living in Texas. If you can find a specialty breeder with the goal of producing well breed Cream Legars you can get much better quality that what the hatcheries are offering and for a lot lower price. I sold day old pullets for local pick-up for $25 each last spring and laying hens for around $35 each last fall.

Breeding stock goes for 3-4 times more, but not many people have any breeding quality Cream Legbars for sale.

 

[SlipsWife]

As far as the $47 Cream Legbars go, Myers Hatcher, My Pet Chicken, and Greenfire farms are the only hatcheries that sell them. They sell day old pullets for $49, $47, $59 respectively (plus shipping and with minimum orders).

There is really no need to buy from a hatchery if you live in Texas though. I haven't counted recently, but it was something like 20% of the nation wide Cream Legbar Club Membership living in Texas. If you can find a specialty breeder with the goal of producing well breed Cream Legars you can get much better quality that what the hatcheries are offering and for a lot lower price. I sold day old pullets for local pick-up for $25 each last spring and laying hens for around $35 each last fall.

Breeding stock goes for 3-4 times more, but not many people have any breeding quality Cream Legbars for sale.

I'm so glad I saw this! We are originally from Marble Falls and go home to visit family a few times a year (we are currently getting our house in Kingsland ready to sell). Are you going to have any Cream Legbar chicks available this year?

 

[gameandmore]

Blue eggs? Well they are a lot closer to blue that the Americauna eggs that are placed next to them in the egg contests, but depending on the person and the lighting some call them blue and some call them green. The egg color is C9 on the Araucana color charts (or OAC123). The are big eggs though. I have some that will lay an occasional XL eggs. This is one of out first Cream Legbar eggs and shows the color really well. Here are some photos of my current grow out group. I plan on showing that cockerel on the right (he is two months older than when this photo was taken and filling out nicely). Here are a few of the pullets from the same group. I will be keeping the one in the front because she is pure for the "cream" gene, but the other in the photo have genetics for producing "gold" plumage and so they are not the correct color for the Cream Varriety of Legbars (yes there is a Gold variety and Silver Varity of Legbar too. The standard for those varieties are non-crested and white eggs because they didn't have any Araucana in their creation) Here are some photos of my breeding stock. My main cockerel. Notice the off-white saddle feathers. This is the recessive "Cream" plumage. Gold plumage is dominant and since it is in the USA bloodlines most of what you see are Gold colored Legbars. The gold colored Legbars are slowly being weeded out as breeder work towards the cream standard. Gold birds have rusty red or yellow color saddle feathers and a yellowish color triangle on the end of the wings of the cockerels. And My main Breeding hen. She is Gold, but a carrier for the Cream Plumage and 50% of her offspring come out with the correct cream plumage. I use her as me main breeder because of the half dozen pairing that I have grown stock from her offspring are the larger and most vigorous. Her egg color is not the bluest in my flock, but she lay some occasional XL eggs. Her largest single yolk egg was 76 grams and her largest double yolker 81 grams. Most of the Legbars in the USA averages about 63 grams eggs. This hen is also less flighty that all my other hens. The rest of the flock sleeps 5 feet up in the rafters of the chicken pen, but she has shorter wings and a bigger build and can not get more than about 4 feet off the ground. I think the less flighty birds will be better for containing free range flocks (although they always seem to stay inside the fence anyways unless spooked). And a mix of the flock out on the pasture.

Will you be having any hatching eggs for sale? Or maybe started pullets?

 

[GaryDean26]

I don't run hatchery and my wife said I can't hatch in the garage any more so we are working on a out building to move my incubators and chicken hobby to. I haven't hatched anything since last fall, but the hatching room should be complete in about a week so I will be hatching what I can in April and May this year.

I do have hatching eggs available now. We have 5 hens (all over 18 months old and all hand picked from larger grow out groups). They are all laying at their peak right now.