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[cheryl98117]

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Dont be disapointed if your ameraucanas dont lay blue eggs. Cenex gets there chicks from iether cackle hatchery or Ideal hatchery. I cant remember what one. but one of those. Easter eggers are great chickens though! Lay anywhere from blue green pink brown, ect. If you were wanting true blue egg layers, I can help you out. I have MORE than enough ameraucanas, 3 or 4 blue & black pullets. Or there are quite a few people here on the thread that could help you out as well.

My numbers exploded from 4 to 32 in 2 months time! lol

So those who I cant find homes for will go to freezer camp this fall.

Don't dis the EEs. Mine lays pink eggs, and looks a lot like it's Quechua ancestors.

I didnt dis the Easter eggers. As a matter of fact I said that they are great! lol Just figured I would give my neighbor the heads up that they might not lay blue eggs is all.

 

[pettec63]

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EE crosses....

X2

at least the first four seem to have green or greenish legs, and pea combs ... which generally means EE (easter egger);
those combs are fairly small and only faintly pink, which makes me think: pullet

EE roos generally have a three-row type pea comb

you have some very interesting and attractive colors to yours

I think this other might be a Sagitta .. which is a fairly new cross ... do a search on BYC to get more info on it

Thanks! when I first got back on here, there was one person in idaho that was starting a thread on them. I responded to her a few times other than that, not many people know what they are or for that matter what their for, the lady at the feed store said they are supposed to be free range broiler type, which I'm wondering is another name for the freedom ranger?? Seen a few of those on the hatchery sites!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Foghorn Leghorn says it's "dumber than a bag of wet mice," I always liked that one.

Hamburgs home. Have to go fiddle with the cage some more, get one corner secure from Raccoons. I took some imperfect photos and will get the random wire and tall grass out of the way before I post pics here.

They are pretty though, my goodness!

The lady I got them from is trying to specialize in Brahmas; when her roosters walked out into the yard I about fainted from the size of the things: Ian is not small, but those things look like Moas, or something!



Gold, wet, possibly needing a snack, but had to report in.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Wait, I thought Gallium aparine was sweet bedstraw, whicjh is the native equivalent of...argh, the herb you use in May Wine*, anyway: sweet bedstraw has cumarin, a blood thinner (the vanilla smelling stuff in wilted strawberry leaves and sweetgrass). I don't think that's a problem for birds, though.

Euell Gibbons has a recipe for making coffee with actual caffiene by roasting cleaver's seeds, but I myself do not want to try it!

*Sweet Woodruff

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I wan't that dream!
I dreamt rats were taking over my chicken house cause I saw one in the dog-kennel run the other night, and it has meen creeping me out for 2 nights now. Rats creep me out - I think of the scene from Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" where the boy is locked in the meat packing plant every night.

I think the coopless chicks dream is the poultry equivalent of the test you hadn't studied for dream.

Or, you know, life at my house. We had problems getting a gatr built, so I've got a sheet of plywood bungie chord and wired across the opening of the coop; I didn't realize until I got the chickens in that there's a weak place at the hardest place to fet to (against the hinge post for a steel gate) so I've got to go wire something in there while, I dunno, hovering in midair or something.

And I need to do it in about one more swallow of water.

 

[hallerlake]

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Or for storing hatching eggs before incubation.

 

[Rainwolf]

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EE crosses....

do you think their pullets? well if their crosses guess their going to feezer camp anyway, I'm trying to get away from hatchery stuff.. I was just going to use the eggs for a while, just wondering ! thanks RFF!!!

I'm not the greatest at determining sex on chicks until they are older. but some info...
The Reds look like production red or RIR mix The don't look like buckeyes.. Buckeyes are very dark mahogany red.

I have some buckeye chick photos in my photobucket...
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd413/rainwolfbirds/Chickens/Chicks/

Also if you have room, let the EE's grow up and see what they lay. Some EE's lay really pretty eggs, some make great mama's, some make great babies, etc etc My 2 EE's are awesome layers as well as they throw some great chicks. (in link above you will see some)

I also keep my max laying hens at all times and grow the chicks to layers then if I want I swap out a layer and sell the one I don't want. But my adult layer flock never changes numbers... just hens or roosters...

Kinda like poker... always have 5 cards but can swap out the ones I don't like for new ones that may or may not work out.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Yeah--it's POURING! I am now wishing I'd put my sebbies away about an hour ago.

Still raining up there?

Yes...it stopped for long enough for me to get a planter hung (and plant the flowers in it) and to put away my ducks & geese...

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Still raining up there?

Yes...it stopped for long enough for me to get a planter hung (and plant the flowers in it) and to put away my ducks & geese...

Well, 6 pm here....yep....still raining here too. Glad to hear you got your ducks and geese put away. Just got all my birds locked up .... they decided it was a good chance to come back out since the rain stopped.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

It's more of a drizzle now than the downpour it was earlier...