Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Hinotori]

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EE's can have any color leg. I have ones with slate, green, and yellow. All hatchery birds. They can also lay pretty much any color of egg. All of the confusion is because of the hatcheries labeling mutts with the purebred birds name in order to sound fancy and make more money. The feed stores only go off of what the hatchery tells them. Hatcheries do not carry araucana at all since there are fertility issues in the breed. The one hatchery that has ameraucana has subpar quality birds. Much better off finding someone who breeds the color variety you want and buy from them. It can be cheaper than buying from the hatchery, and you get better quality birds who are the actual breed. Big

I hate going to the county fair here and seeing all the hatchery EEs labeled as wheaten ameraucanas and winning. I so want to force them to have a picture up like this.

 

[Hinotori]

So is she Araucana? I'm confused about her because I don't think her eggs are really blue. They look minty?

She looks like she could very well be an araucana. Lack of ear tufts just means she isn't showable.

For breeding many people use one bird with tufts and one without. 50% will have the one copy of the gene giving ear tufts and 50% won't have any.

If you use two birds with tufts, 50% will have one copy of the gene, 25% won't have any, and 25% die in the egg from having two copies.

That all is choice on if you want the max number of live chicks.

Egg color has a huge range for what is blue. Many of what could be called green are in there.

 

[junebuggena]

So is she Araucana? I'm confused about her because I don't think her eggs are really blue. They look minty?

She's got the wrong skin color for Araucana. They are supposed to have yellow skin/legs.

 

[jancweb]

Quick question... What do you guys use as flooring in your run? Only a small portion will be covered. I was going to use pine shavings but worry they would get too wet.

 

[Bridebeliever]

I use pine shavings. I never have a problem with it getting to wet. I do clean my coop daily though.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quick question... What do you guys use as flooring in your run? Only a small portion will be covered. I was going to use pine shavings but worry they would get too wet.

I use white shaving but horse stall pellets was recomened to me here and I love them under my shavings outside nyou learn those things here

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well my 12 little Bard Rock pullets all made it through last night

no more losses
The 5 Bars have given me 3 eggs already this morning no doubt they will all 5 give me one nice sized egg
each today.. guess I am now the Bard Rock Mom

little darlins did it again today 5/5 - 12 too young

 

[Hinotori]

So is she Araucana? I'm confused about her because I don't think her eggs are really blue. They look minty?

She's got the wrong skin color for Araucana. They are supposed to have yellow skin/legs.

You're right. I forget that their skin is opposite of ameraucana.

 

[Carolei]

Okay, folks! I thought I was going to have to wait until next year, but some rich people in my in-laws' neighborhood were giving away a free coop, and we scored this time! Only room for about 8 small-ish hens. My dream is to have two hens each of Egyptian Fayoumis, golden spangled or golden penciled Hamburg, EE, and brown Leghorn. It's hard to find all those breeds in one place! Anyone know of any feed stores who might special order small amounts of rare breeds? Any other suggestions? I know I'll probably have to settle for just the brown Leghorn and EE, but a girl can dream!

If you don't mind the shipping cost, you could try mypetchicken.com. That's where I got my first babies because I wanted one each of several breeds. They are hatchery birds, but they've been great!

 

[Bridebeliever]

If you don't mind the shipping cost, you could try mypetchicken.com. That's where I got my first babies because I wanted one each of several breeds. They are hatchery birds, but they've been great!

Yes! I love my My Pet Chickens! I got 2 SLW, 1 GLW, 1 Australorp, 3 Andalusian (1 splash, 2 blue), 2 RIR. They are all very healthy and attractive and all started laying at 20-22 weeks which really surprised me! Oh wait, the Australorp just started laying today (25 weeks). I've been very pleased. Even the lacing on the Wyandottes is very nice!