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Ameraucana Marketplace / lavender in other poultry

« on: December 11, 2010, 08:09:51 PM »

Yeah,
   Well I seen the first add ever for Lavender OEG bantams perhaps something may change.

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Ameraucana Marketplace / lavender in other poultry

« on: December 11, 2010, 07:10:03 PM »

Yes, you can blame John B for the SELF BLUE frenzy.    

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Cockerel weight

« on: October 16, 2010, 11:21:07 PM »

Dak,
   If he came from out of my stock directly or thru another breeder who had some of my stock  you can expect about an 8 lb male.  

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Ameraucana Marketplace / New Exhibition Poultry Magazine

« on: October 03, 2010, 10:33:29 AM »

http://www.exhibitionpoultry.net/

Here is a link for a new paper on exhibition poultry thanks to an Araucana breeder SkyBlueEgg

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Proper lavender color

« on: August 29, 2010, 03:58:09 PM »

Dak,
   Try and find a picture of a Self Blue Old English Game Bantam on the internet.  That is what I believe the color is suppose to be as close as possible.  Yes, the lighter shade is more eye appealing but as far as silvery(shiny) hackle and saddle feathers that will have to be determined when the standard is accepted.  Try and stay away from the silvery feathers probably.  The English I believe call the Lavender,    \" Pearl grey\",  so that would be closer to light color than dark if that is the case.  

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Lavender breeding

« on: August 16, 2010, 05:55:56 PM »

Melissa,
   My regular email is not working properly at this time and hope you visit this site.  
   My Lavender Ameraucanas do have some bantam in their background so the small chicks may be not up to the standards for size.
   My lavenders LF Ameraucanas may have silver or gold in their background.  Most of the blacks have gold background but I have had some that had silvers in their background several years ago when I crossed silvers with blacks.  
   Perhaps someone on here can tell you if their is any visual difference in full grown birds possibly on here which ones are silvers and which ones are gold background.  If you need ones with definate silver background for a project I\'d suggest a Coronation Sussex be used.  

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Lavender breeding

« on: June 09, 2010, 07:25:19 PM »

Jeepers,
   Yes you should get a good black.  It will improve feather quality and bring the bird even closer to the standards.  As far as size my birds are large to start with but egg color would also be improved.  I am still breeding blacks to Lavenders myself for my own stock improvement.  I do have a few lavender hens that lay a nice blue egg but the blacks usually have better egg color.  

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Ameraucana Marketplace / New member

« on: June 06, 2010, 11:47:47 PM »

Claire,
   Glad  you joined here.  You will enjoy this site.  Harry

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Day Old Large Fowl Ameraucana Chicks In Black, Blue and Splash

« on: March 31, 2010, 09:58:31 AM »

Paul,
   Molting.  You may want to contact Texas A&M and see if they did any research on that subject.  

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Exhibiting & Promoting / LF chick pics

« on: March 30, 2010, 11:37:58 PM »

John,
  The other chicks are also very nice, it is just the photo of the silvers really caught my eye.   You always do such a great job breeding all the varieties of the Ameraucanas.  

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Exhibiting & Promoting / LF chick pics

« on: March 30, 2010, 04:49:39 PM »

John,
   Those silver chicks are spectacular.  Do you have a mold?

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Pictures of Lavender Ameraucana Cockerels I got from John

« on: February 18, 2010, 06:32:52 PM »

I personally think you should keep both of the Lavender males.  I see potential in both of them.  Just toe punch the chicks so you know which male is producing what you really want.

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Lavender breeding

« on: January 17, 2010, 07:32:40 PM »

John,
   Yours are looking very nice.  Hoping to put some pictures on but I need a program for my camera.  

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Ameraucana Marketplace / 2009 National Meet Bantam Pics

« on: November 22, 2009, 09:33:08 PM »

Michael M,
    Would also like to thank you for the great pictures of the bantam section.  

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Back Home from the 2009 ABC National

« on: November 21, 2009, 03:17:58 PM »

Thanks John and Jean for being able to bring the show to us that were unable to attend.