Breeding Araucanas tufted/rumpless to SOP

Sassyhens1 said:

The SOP for this particular chicken is crazy difficult. So requirements above and beyond color is: double tufted, willow leg, except white, rump less, hens must lay blue eggs. Then if that is not difficult enough you have the killer gene so hatching % is low. Whew! No wonder they are hard to find. Lol

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Shaffer said:

No, no wonder they are given up, too much hatching, too many culls and if you grow them out too much waiste of feed and space to get just a few. Oh, and by the way they do not produce 50% true (double tufted rumpless) but the APA accepted them anyways. The clean face rumpless ones can not be shown and they do produce 50% true.

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RedBanks said:

If both parents have the tufts gene, 25% of the chicks will die in the shell. Only a bird with tufts carries the tufted gene. If both parents are tufted 50% of the chicks will be tufted 25% dead in shell and 25% non-tufted. If only one parent is tufted you will get 50% tufted and 50% clean faced. This mean you will have tufted and not tufted in your flock.

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