Hello!
I went out, met, and purchased an Americauna tonight from a man that does a lot of showing and works with our local poultry 4H.
she's awfully cute. She was one of 200 birds and therefore hasn't been handled much, but she isn't very skiddish either. So I'm hoping she'll get along well with the girls and be our final and permanent addition to our little flock o'three for our urban setting.
Here's a couple of pictures...
What are you looking at?
she is lovely!
in my first experinece with americaunas, which was eating their eggs, the owner told me you can tell the color of their egg by the color of their leg... wonder if that will be true? she has great colored legs!
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Thanks TF! I sure hope that her legs are an indication of her egg color!
So I don't get a lot responses... I must not be coming off goofy enough or something, but does anyone have any integration tips?
I had her in a cat crate in the hen house last night. Then let Lacey and Talula out to free range in the yard and shut the new girl up in the coop (run + hen house). She seems so shy. Every time I look out there, she's standing in the hen house. My girls only go in there to sleep!
It is because you seem to be doing everything right!
I want an Ameraucana. And yours looks just the way I would want one to.
Hmmmmmm, need to go to the feed store. ZZ claims to have siezed all the pullets. We shall see, we shall see........
HA! I'm just winging it - hey - is that a poultry phrase or something else?
Anyway, she is beautiful. DH wants to name her Sienna, I'd also like to name her Phoenix - because she had brilliant colors like a Phoenix.
Hopefully she'll come out of her shell as she starts to adjust to her new surroundings.
Yeah, Lazy, what she said!! You're doing everything I know to do and I covet your girl or would if she were a he.
Grownut--slight hijacking going on here--do you think there would be any advantage to introducing actual Araucana blood lines into the mix. I wondering about egg color. And I am becoming convinced that I need an Araucana as well as an Ameraucana. Justify me! Justify me!
That was my first thought, that we needed the closer, more stable line (to the original collonca). They {colloncas} were crossed with that Q one which was brown egg to produce the araucana, I think, so both breeds have it in 'em, but blue egg trumps all. I believe the 'drawback' to the araucana was some fatal gene 'r other and taillessness. So other tailed breeds were introduced to get rid of {that fatal thing I can't remember} resulting in the ameraucana. So utilizing some of that successful breeding on both sides sounds good.
Definitely incorporating araucana into the ameraucana mix would be good, IMHO.(and it is humble, remember I'm not the one with the training)
Since the sex-link barring is passed down the female side (?) it might be a good idea to cross both to barred to get a blue egg dominant, sex-linked mix. Maybe?
Sounds like you have more good ideas than I on this. The trickiest part seems to me to be getting the feather color and egg color diluted so we don't end up with green egged black birds. Anything with self-blue, cream, or buff would be wonderful
Catscan, you have to come see my babiez!
I just got an incubator a few minutes ago, so I hope I can be in on this!!
I love her colors - very pretty hen!
ZZ, I Dmailed you but my work computer destroyed it and I couldn't bring your # up. I'll call tonight.
Ooooh! She is beautiful. But then, I am quite partial to that coloring. Here is a picture of my Americauna hen.
LL that is a very pretty hen!
MollyD
Thanks all!
myrrh, what's her name... can I steal it? ;-) We're stumped...she told DH her name was Sierra and she told me her name was Phoenix. I think we must have both misheard and now she's not repeating herself. So maybe its Rumpelstiltskin???
Oh Myrrh, love the blue hen behind your Americauna too!
Maybe it's Sierrnix, or Phoenerra?
Phoerra.
Beautiful.
Your welcome to steal her name, but somehow I doubt you'd want it. Keeping in mind that my girls are for eggs and friendship only, her name is Salad. My four girls together are Soup, Salad, Sandwich, an Shnitzel. The blue one is a Blue Andalusian (soup). Thanks for the compliment!
Here is a full pic of Soup.
That is some GORGEOUS looking soup! Can I have some please?!?!
Thanks so much. She is actually quite a bit more impressive lately as she has a gigantic red comb, but I haven't taken any pics lately.
Wow, what a stunner. I am all for getting some of that soup!
Thanks! Truth be told I generally think of her as rather plain compared to the Americauna with feathering like Lazy_Ladies.
OK, so I started searching Irish baby names -- being the little redhead that she is -- and came across Anya. Pronounced awn-ya, means "radiance" and it fits! 8-D
I sure hope she works out. I was pleased to see that she had come out of the hen house and was scratching around in the chicken yard this afternoon when I got home from work. I grabbed some treats and went and sat outside the yard and fed Lacey and Talula on my side of the fence and Anya on her side of the fence. Its funny, I don't think she got treats much at her previous residence. She didn't know what to do with watermelon last night and she took awhile to warm up to my home mix of scratch which consists of black sunflowers, millet, barley, cracked corn, and flax (1:1:1:1:1).
She was pretty easily caught and pretty calm in my hands. So I think she'll warm up after awhile. Now if only she and Talula can figure out who's the girl at the bottom without too many lost feather's, we'll be set!
Dagnabit - I don't know by DH has to keep confusing me. He just referred to her at Ginger (you know the red head from Gilligan's Island)... that'd be awfully cute, too!
Depends whether she's sultry or sassy, I s'pose..
LOL @ Soup! I wonder if that bird is scared of that name. She's beautiful. Hubby likes to joke and call ours extra crispy, original recipe, Colonel Sanders, etc. It makes our human girls mad.
I have two birds that look like yours LL. They are very nice birds. They lay the very palest blue-green eggs. Sometimes they look like they are white until you get them in the right light or next to a white egg.
I vote for Anya. I think that is a great name!
Man, she's a loudmouth (er I mean beak). She was just making a total ruckous out in the backyard.
Do people have experiences with certain types of birds being louder than others? A friend of mine mentioned they get a louder or at least sound different once they start to lay, but my two original girls are so quiet!
PS. DH and I were cracking ourselves up last night with a whole Chinese menu name scheme for the chickens... rooster could be General Tso, others could be Sesame, Teriyaki, Orange, Chow Mein... you get the picture - ha!
Mine are generally quiet--but they do get very loud when the lay. It sounds just like a cartoon chicken--baawwkk, baawwkk, BAAWWKK! Over and over again. Really, sometimes they are louder than the roos.
mine do the same when they are laying. the sound like they are in extreme pain
Cat,
That is EXACTLY what she was doing. bawk, bawk, BA-COCK! She was way louder than any rooster could be... I was afraid she'd wake the whole dang neighborhood! ;)
Well, there were no lost feathers today. Anytime Talula picked on her, she just went up on something and stayed out of trouble. Talk about a sweetheart! She's amazing, of all the chickens I cycled through in the short while that I've been raising them, she is the calmest. I walked right up to her while she was on the short fence that divides the chicken yard and picked her up. Dinney would tried to spur me, the babies would have ran peeping in the opposite direction, Talula would have let out a squak and fled, and Lacey would have scattered as well, but not as animated...
The girl's got hops though, she was ON TOP of my garden shed, with the front being 8' tall. I climbed on the hen house roof and picked her up with ease.
I sure hope they figure it out. They are all roosting together tonight. Lacey in the middle (makes since she's the mediator type) and Talula and Anya on either side.
Chickens CRACK me up! The new girl still continues to be the "lover not a fighter" type. Today when i got home from work she was hanging out in the hen house and DH said she'd been there most of the day. I pulled her out, and some snacks, and went and sat in the middle of the yard. She started to get comfortable and pecking around me when Talula came along and pecked at her. She flew on TOP of DH, who was sitting nearby, and perched on his shoulder.
We were both cracking up... apparently she feels safest in the highest spot.
I love that.. I have a Buff Orp that was scratching on my foot. Cracked me up. Like what was she gonna find? It was so soft and gentle.. tickled like all get out.
We also have a RIR that we were calling lightning cause it's always the first to run into hyper fits.. now we call her Everest.. She likes to be on our head or shoulder. I pronounce it Everess.. just so as to put a bit of a feminine twist to it.. (wishful thinking)
