If we don’t have the chicks you want on hand right now, or you desire a later hatch date, here is what you want to do to reserve the chicks you want:
Pick Your Date(s): Take a look at the hatch schedule below for the hatch dates of your desired breeds.
Make Your Appointment: Then go to the appointment setter and set an appointment for the day after hatch -- or as soon as possible after that -- to pick up your birds.
Place Your Request: In the notes section of your appointment requests, tell me how many of which breed you wish to reserve.
As soon as I get your appointment request, I will put you in the queue for that hatch or those hatches. If your spot is near the end of that queue, and we don’t have as robust of a hatch as we were hoping for, you will go to the front of the line for the next hatch.
Alternately, you can sign up on the notification list above to be notified if there are chicks available after the Reserve requests have been filled. I will add the chicks to the website and you will get a notification email and can buy them off the website.
Straight-run means that they are unsexed. Click here to learn more about sexing chicks.
Next Ameraucana Hatchings
“The Ameraucana is an American breed of domestic chicken. It was developed in the United States in the 1970s, and derives from Araucana chickens brought from Chile. It was bred to retain the blue-egg gene but eliminate the lethal alleles of the parent breed. There are both standard-sized and bantam versions.
Ameraucana History
The Ameraucana was developed in the United States in the 1970s from Araucana chickens brought from Chile. It was bred to retain the unusual blue-egg gene of the Araucana, but eliminate the tufted and rumpless lethal alleles of the parent breed. It was added to the Standard of Perfection of the American Poultry Association in 1984. The name derives from "America" and "Araucana",
The Ameraucana is recognized in the United States as a separate breed from the Araucana. In some other countries, including Australia and the United Kingdom, both the tailed and rumpless variants of the Araucana are considered a single breed.
Ameraucana Characteristics
The Ameraucana is one of the few chicken breeds to lay blue eggs. It shows many similarities to the Araucana, including the pea comb and the blue egg gene. It is tailed, muffed and bearded, whereas the Araucana in the United States has ear tufts and is rumpless. The earlobes are small and round, the wattles small or absent; earlobes, comb and wattles are all red. The shanks are slate-blue, tending to black in the black plumage variant.
Eight color variants are recognized in the American Standard of Perfection: black, blue, blue wheaten, brown red, buff, silver, wheaten and white” (Wikipedia).
