The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[lalaland]

Justine, I know exactly what you mean!

Its dropped to -10 here, which would have been balmy just a week ago.

These weather variations really take a lot of work too - when the windchills are -30 or worse, I don't let the chickens out and have to move water and feed inside. WHen it warms up and or when the wind chill isn't so bad, I move water and feed outside.

And when it is windchill but warm, I have both! Especially trying to be careful because Booster gets chased outside by Buster, so I can't just let the chickens choose to go out or not. If it is too cold for Booster to be out with his frozen comb, then I have to keep the coop shut up because he won't have a choice.

 

[aoxa]

If I understood Delisha right, an EE will have a white interior shell, and the Ameraucana has the same color all the way through the shell.

I have that batch of chicks that were mixed up by the hatcher and am totally uncertain about what kind of pullets I have - still! Been waiting for POL to see if that gives me more info.

Blue eggs will be blue all the way through.

I know my EE eggs are blue all the way through.

 

[lalaland]

huh, I was first talking about a green egg, are green eggs not green all the way through?
Are you saying you can't tell ee v ameraucana from the egg?

 

[aoxa]

huh, I was first talking about a green egg, are green eggs not green all the way through?
Are you saying you can't tell ee v ameraucana from the egg?

Nope.

 

[lalaland]

must be my lack of coffee so far this morning.
so, what you are saying is just about green eggs and not blue eggs?
or....can you explain?

 

[aoxa]

must be my lack of coffee so far this morning.
so, what you are saying is just about green eggs and not blue eggs?
or....can you explain?

Sorry, my nope was intended for the last part. You can't tell the difference between an EE who lays a blue egg or an Ameraucana by the egg alone.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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the ameraucana thread is typically very quick to tell you what the chicken is. Maybe post a few pictures there. But IMO there are a lot of chickens they deem as EE. Probabilities seem to indicate that the majority of the EE / Amer chickens are EE.

 

[aoxa]

the ameraucana thread is typically very quick to tell you what the chicken is. Maybe post a few pictures there. But IMO there are a lot of chickens they deem as EE. Probabilities seem to indicate that the majority of the EE / Amer chickens are EE.

Post pics here and I can help as well.

If they don't fit the standard, they are EEs. Even if you use a blue Ameraucana over a Blue Wheaton Ameraucana it will be considered an EE.
(which I find strange... FYI)

They are quite harsh in that thread.

 

[lalaland]

i just have Edie and Coco Chanel. Edie lays a big green egg, and I have no idea about Coco Chanel. I don't think she is laying yet, but there was a small blue green egg in the hidden nest that was not Edie's. Could be Seaquist, that seagull looking pullet.

This is Edie a few months ago:



Edie has really filled out and is built like a linebacker!

This is Coco Chanel: beard and muff




This is Seaquist, who possibly might be a superblueegg layer (EExleghorn) or something else entirely. She's the white one.



I have seen Seaquist checking out nests, so I'm wondering if she is the layer of the new blue/green egg- but I thought it would be a blue egg, not blue green if she was a super blue egg layer. Although I have heard of white eggs from superblue egg layers too.

 

[lalaland]

I think the threads on specific breeds are quite agreesive in general - quick to say certain chickens are definetly not that breed, seems sometimes that there is a feeling that it is a very exclusive club, and not just anyone can join. makes me laugh sometimes. Now the sulmtaler thread isn't like that but it isn't very active at all, probably because of the tiny number of sulmtaler owners which seem to number less than 20 in the US.