At 16 weeks, if she is an Ameraucana she should start showing the start of a beard (thick neck feathers) and muffs on the side of her head. I'd love to see more photos. Of course, I could do this all day! lol!
Lol I've learned feed store purchase are just luck of the draw.At 16 weeks, if she is an Ameraucana she should start showing the start of a beard (thick neck feathers) and muffs on the side of her head. I'd love to see more photos. Of course, I could do this all day! lol!
On one of Lisa's (my wife) infamous surprise feed-store purchases, she came home with what she was told was a Speckled Sussex pullet, but it turned out to be a Welsummer cockerel. He's a beautiful bird, so no complaints here. I love surprises.
As of now the Orloffs are my favorite. I had one get hurt when it was a baby so I handled her everyday for a while. She is like a puppy now. She's runs to me when I go in the coop an she likes to sleep in my lap on occasions.
The moisture from all the rain is what gets the fly eggs to hatch in the chicken litter. It has been a challenge for us with the juvi brooders so full of chicks, but we're staying ahead of it. So far I haven't had to break out the Tempo Ultra, but it got close for a couple of days. Today someone took 15 of my juvi Spitzhaubens, Langshans, FBCM, and other birds, so that should give us a little more room to stay ahead of the problem. Tuesday someone is taking four cockerels, and Lisa has sold some of her Silkies, and will deliver them tomorrow morning. That will help even more.
Yup, it's an Ameraucana. Very nice!
I agree. The case I was making was for the blue-egg gene, but I agree with you. Now the "Eater Egger" is actually a very bad chicken.Uh oh, a little correction here. Ameraucanas and Legbars are not Easter Eggers. They are each their own breed of chicken that happens to lays a blue egg, but they are not Easter Eggers. A breed, by definition is a chicken whose babies will breed true and will the be exact duplicates of the parent bird. Such as, a legbar will always have babies that are the exact same color as the parents, or a buff orpington will always hatch buff colored orpington chicks. (There are some exceptions to this, such as those that will hatch blue/black or splash chicks) An Easter Egger is not a 'breed', but are mixes. Their babies will be all sorts of colors and can be different from the parents. These mixes just get the name Eater Eggers because they lay blue, green, and pink eggs. Now, if you want to really get into it, if you bred a purebred white Ameraucana with a purebred Black Ameraucana, the resulting chicks will be Easter Eggers, (not purebred Ameraucanas) simply because those chicks now have mixed genes and could produce chicks of both colors. This makes is 'unpure' so to speak. To be purebred, the white Ameraucana should always produce white chicks, etc.
So ends my lesson.
Looks like a Silver Ameraucana to me.
