You lower the temperature gradually each week and provide heat until they're feathered out . I provide heat whether they're in a brooder indoors or outdoors in a coop brooder .
Or use a Mama Heating Pad setup and skip all that "95° the first week" nonsense.
Um if I don’t turn the lamp off for an hour her brooder gets way to hot and she starts to pant.
MAMA HEATING PAD!!!!!!!!!
Fun fact Easter eggers are Araucana or Ameracauna mixed with other breeds to creat a different colored egg.
Um, not necessarily. Easter Eggers, while not a recognized APA breed are the PRECURSOR to both the Araucana and Ameraucana. Both of these APA breeds were created from birds by selecting for specific traits. Back then 1960's/70's the blue or green laying birds were called Araucana or Easter Egger. Some had muffs, beards, tails or tailless, ear tufts. Lots of selective breeding was needed to separate out the desired features.
You can breed Easter Egger (of the muffed, bearded, tailed, green leg, pea comb variety) and get blue/green color variation but you will have no idea what the color/feather pattern will be. Olive Eggers (again not a recognized breed) were created from Easter Eggers crossed with very dark brown egg layers like Marans.
If you notice with a momma hen, the chicks aren’t always under the hen in a temperature regulated box, a hen doesn’t have a thermometer to tell her what temp she needs to be at for her babies, they watch the behavior of the chicks to see when she needs to call them under her.
BUT she is always there when they want to warm up. Not necessarily true with heat lamps that are switched on and off.
No she isn’t a whiting true blue or true green, those two breeds are fairly new within the last three or four years.
And they are "non standard", meaning not recognized by the APA, same as EEs.
Although since McMurray says they've been has been calling their birds Ameraucanas since before the breed was recognized by the American Poultry Association, I can see why they would keep calling their same birds by the same name
That would be sort of impossible. The name Ameraucana was made up by the group that developed them when it was recognized by the APA. They couldn't use Araucana since that breed was recognized first for the tufted & tailless birds. Couldn't really be selling something by a name that hadn't been made up yet.
Also, until recent years it was not possible to buy an APA Ameraucana from a hatchery, they didn't have them. Yet they falsely called their EEs Ameraucana or Americana or Araucana. There are a few hatcheries that do now sell some colors of APA Ameraucana.
