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Flowerbh said:
For those of you following Bruce and my conversations about Ameraucanas vs. Easter Eggers, please please don't think we are being mean to each other! I love Bruce and his family! I totally respect him!:bow. We are simply teaching each other! All in good sport.
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.......is it safe to come out from under the table yet; can we let the children go out and play....I didn't want them out with bullets still flying.....lol
 
Flowerbh said:
For those of you following Bruce and my conversations about Ameraucanas vs. Easter Eggers, please please don't think we are being mean to each other! I love Bruce and his family! I totally respect him!:bow. We are simply teaching each other! All in good sport.
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Hahaha I know @ronnhill7 and I were joking with you!! To be honest, I was thinking of getting Ameraucanas when I first started researching chickens. It frustrated me so much that people would sell "Americanas" or "Americaunas" (complete with ALL THE SPELLING ERRORS!!!) and hardly just say they had Easter Eggers. As we've commiserated before, if you're a breeder and you can't even spell your breeds correctly it poses an issue of credibility to me. I also got concerned that I wouldn't even be able to tell (as a newb) if I wasn't getting what I asked for. Because my reason for wanting the breed was to get blue eggs, I ultimately started studying the CCL and went that way---also, YAY! auto sexing!

Fundamentally, I don't mind if they are easter eggers or ameraucanas, but as someone who is sort of OCD about breed standards and some sort of finite parameter around genetics (hello, science major) I just want to focus on breeds that I can nail down instead of trying to herd cats. For me, it's just easier to not get into the wild west of poultry. I thought (still do) that if I avoided breeds with too much chatter, it would just be easier to focus on improving my flock where I could.

Love all y'all!!!!!
 
Well Heck, I guess I need to go take more pics of my "Americaunas" SP...Americanas or whatever and post pics so i can let yall tell me what they are! One of them is my Laverne who has the tumor on her neck!
 
Also, Poor Lucy, my BO who just started laying, she layed her first egg in the pen, a little bitty thing, then, her 2nd egg, well, she looked like she was aggitated, kept pacing and such, so i picked her up, and touched her belly area and she dropped an egg, LOL, decent one this time. then yesterday, she layed one of the jelly eggs, under the shed, which is outside the coop. So I'm really not sure what to do or if I should do anything to help her acclimate. I had thought about separating the toddlers from the big girls during the day, but they are really all pretty much used to each other at this point. what do yall think? I'm also thinking I'm going to change up the laying boxes, not really sure if she likes the ones I have.
I know, I know, I'm probably overthinking the whole thing! lol
 
missy1971 said:
Also, Poor Lucy, my BO who just started laying, she layed her first egg in the pen, a little bitty thing, then, her 2nd egg, well, she looked like she was aggitated, kept pacing and such, so i picked her up, and touched her belly area and she dropped an egg, LOL, decent one this time. then yesterday, she layed one of the jelly eggs, under the shed, which is outside the coop. So I'm really not sure what to do or if I should do anything to help her acclimate. I had thought about separating the toddlers from the big girls during the day, but they are really all pretty much used to each other at this point. what do yall think? I'm also thinking I'm going to change up the laying boxes, not really sure if she likes the ones I have.
I know, I know, I'm probably overthinking the whole thing! lol
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I had trouble with my bantam doing that too.
Ok, make sure that she has Free choose calcium (eggs shells or oyster shells)

When you see her running around for a safe spot (when my were babies they just screamed until it was out) pick her up and place her in your nesting box with a fake egg (or real one until you get a fake one). When she sees the fake egg, she will think someone else laid there and she will use it or she will leave and you put her back, if she leaves again but stays outside the nesting box then she thinking about it.
 
Flowerbh said:
For those of you following Bruce and my conversations about Ameraucanas vs. Easter Eggers, please please don't think we are being mean to each other! I love Bruce and his family! I totally respect him!:bow. We are simply teaching each other! All in good sport.
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Okay, I feel better now. I've put away the shotgun, unbolted the doors, and allowed the chickens back into the run. :lau It's all good. ((((((((((((Flowerbh))))))))))) :highfive:
ronnhill7 said:
.......is it safe to come out from under the table yet; can we let the children go out and play....I didn't want them out with bullets still flying.....lol
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Yeah, Ron, it's all safe now. Lisa yelled to me, "STOP! BACK AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!" Then she put me back in my cage for the night. What's really peculiar is the moon wasn't even full. :lol:

livhatcher said:
Hahaha I know @ronnhill7 and I were joking with you!! To be honest, I was thinking of getting Ameraucanas when I first started researching chickens. It frustrated me so much that people would sell "Americanas" or "Americaunas" (complete with ALL THE SPELLING ERRORS!!!) and hardly just say they had Easter Eggers. As we've commiserated before, if you're a breeder and you can't even spell your breeds correctly it poses an issue of credibility to me. I also got concerned that I wouldn't even be able to tell (as a newb) if I wasn't getting what I asked for. Because my reason for wanting the breed was to get blue eggs, I ultimately started studying the CCL and went that way---also, YAY! auto sexing!

Fundamentally, I don't mind if they are easter eggers or ameraucanas, but as someone who is sort of OCD about breed standards and some sort of finite parameter around genetics (hello, science major) I just want to focus on breeds that I can nail down instead of trying to herd cats. For me, it's just easier to not get into the wild west of poultry. I thought (still do) that if I avoided breeds with too much chatter, it would just be easier to focus on improving my flock where I could.

Love all y'all!!!!!
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Speaking of eggs with usual colors, don't you wish you had some birds that could lay beauties like these?:
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missy1971 said:
Also, Poor Lucy, my BO who just started laying, she layed her first egg in the pen, a little bitty thing, then, her 2nd egg, well, she looked like she was aggitated, kept pacing and such, so i picked her up, and touched her belly area and she dropped an egg, LOL, decent one this time. then yesterday, she layed one of the jelly eggs, under the shed, which is outside the coop. So I'm really not sure what to do or if I should do anything to help her acclimate. I had thought about separating the toddlers from the big girls during the day, but they are really all pretty much used to each other at this point. what do yall think? I'm also thinking I'm going to change up the laying boxes, not really sure if she likes the ones I have.
I know, I know, I'm probably overthinking the whole thing! lol
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