Best of Luck to You
Was there anyone selling chicken carrying cases/boxes at the Maryland show ......... usually they are inexpensive . If you are carpenter inclined you could build a few for yourself .
Bathing and conditioning birds for show should be covered in BYC's library . I'm confident...
have you thought about using a 'starter' or starter/grower with the layer feed and BOSS (safflower-just a small amount of it daily)(soaked oats) (boil liver and crumble it and add soup and crumbled liver to starter-maybe once a weekor more often if no problem) make up like as doughy biscuits...
RightOn Jean !!!!
pips&peeps :
Our members will not budge on the name lavender. We were thinking that since self blue description is already in the standard we would use our term lavender for the color in the Ameraucana section and refer to the self blue color description on page so and so...
ginger/ginger
pips&peeps :
There are several different descriptions for BBR as well as wheaten in the SOP.....
I guess she would be more of a ginger wheaten.
I had no idea that (black roo X blue hen would produce **50% *lavender* and 50% Black .............
wow
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Lavender is recessive, so you have to have 2 visually lavender parents for the chicks to be visually lavender. What you will get with your trio:
black roo x blue hen = 50%...
congrats on the BIG Wins !!!!
pips&peeps :
Hi guys, back from the show in Hamilton, MT.
My black hen placed Reserve of Show in Show 1 and my black bantam cockerel placed Reserve AOCCL in Show 1. My buff cock placed Reserve AOSB in Show 1.
I will post Show II results later, can't remember...
Thanks TK Poultry ..... perfect answer !!
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It was sudgested to me that I should get a cockeral from a different line, so as to not breed brother to sister. Is this wrong?
no not really unless there is something wrong with the first line and you are trying to fix it. You can breed...
You Guys Sound like us handlers & breeders at the dog shows ...... lol ... lol .... love it
We show Papillons , (thank goodness we can have fun and laugh about all of it) .
Keep up the good work ,
Shannon
Ohhh noooo .........
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I saw one member from FL that raises lavenders going. From the chit chat though it looks like all her chicks are spoken for by someone that was supposed to be buying chicks from me.
What A Beauty !!!!
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do you have a ameraucana breeder club egg color chart?
I have an image on my computer but I need to order the real thing.
I appreciate all the nice comments and encouragement. I like what I have, too, but I am also realistic about the improvements that need...
i would love to see a thread about people with chickens confronted with bad weather , how they build,prepare their coops for such weather with pics of such . I know it's a job to do but many of us never see that kind of weather and would throughly enjoy the details , pics , action and suspence...