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How big should the LF Ameraucanas Be at 7 months?

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Mike Gilbert:

--- Quote from: vanalpaca on February 11, 2013, 09:08:16 AM ---I believe a 'rolly polly' used to be a toy that was a ball on the bottom weighted with lead and it would rock from side to side .........surely you had one growing up, I did......
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Nope, I doubt they had been invented yet when I grew up.  And we were too busy fighting off the British to play anyway.     Seriously, if they have not been wormed I would sure consider it.

John:

--- Quote ---BTW, I have one Buff crowing and another not that has the same size comb as the cock, both have the whitish/grey legs. At least 3 or 4 others have the yellow legs, and I have a total of 7 Buffs that grew up out of the 14 that I got in.
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Bonnie,
If I'm reading it right you are saying some buff birds have yellow legs.  Are you sure they are Ameraucanas?  I also have buff Chanteclers and they should have yellow legs. When did you buy chicks from me?  Photos of the birds would be a big help.

vanalpaca:
I got all the buffs from Deb Yeagle's order of 25 LF sent to Fremont, OH. She did get a lot of partridge chanticleers in that order and you sent 14 Buffs, I assumed those were all Ameraucana's, one of the last orders in May...

So whats the diff between the chanticleers and the ameraucanas in buff? Leg color and muffs/tufts? All mine have the short odd combs (not single like my wellies) ...but I haven't caught them up and eyeballed them in the sunshine. I just count the 7 to make sure I haven't lost any and they've all gone in the coop.

They are all nice looking and the same size except for the yellow legs on some of them. I assumed that the buffs just still needed culling cause I haven't culled anything from last year yet...

Please keep educating me....

Do chanticleers throw white eggs (none laying yet)?

John:

--- Quote ---whats the diff between the chanticleers and the ameraucanas in buff?
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If they have yellow shanks they aren't Ameraucanas and I would guess Chanteclers if they came from me.  I don't recall yellow or even willow shanks showing up on LF buff Amerauacanas in decades if ever.  Chanteclers would not have muffs and would have cushion combs, rather than pea combs.  They lay brown eggs.

vanalpaca:
Ah well, I will have to count the yellow legs and see how many of the 7 buffs are Chanticleers then, it will be 3 or 4. At least one of the slate legs was crowing and another looked to have the same sized comb so may also be a cockerel. And the Chanticleers will have to be removed from the Wellie flock as can't have brown eggers in with that breeder group for hatching eggs. So glad you cleared that up for me. And it is great to know that the Buffs are 'set' for leg color and that will be one thing I shouldn't have to cull for. Thanks!

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