Araucana thread anyone? - Page 520

Here is Velda, my almost lakenvelder looking hen.

 

 

I love her coloring.  She is in my wheaten breeding pen even though she doesn't have the correct wheaten coloring.  I wouldn't mind a few more of her color. 

 

Lanae

So that little tufted and rumpless chick I just hatched, the one that was the first from my own eggs, is dead. It was in the nest box, and the hen was still acting broody, but the chick was shoved off to the side. She'd snagged some newly laid eggs to sit on. At first I thought the chick could have died of exposure, but it had bloody peck marks. So she rejected it to brood more eggs. Now I don't trust her as a Mom. I thought she was doing well with the chick. Making the same 'momma hen noises' that the other broodies with chicks do, and tucking the chick into her feathers.

 

She also tried to slaughter a week and a half old chick (olive egger chick) that belongs to ANOTHER Mom hen. The attack came when she left the box to drink, saw the hen and chick pair, and rushed over to begin kicking and pecking the chick. Thank goodness the mother hen defended her chick, but I thought it was done for because it went limp on the ground after a particularly hard kick. But it must have just been stunned, since as I put the attacker in a dog crate and saw to the chick. It was still breathing and regained its footing after a few minutes.

 

 

 

 

Pretty Buff Columbian. She'd do well with any other Wheaten/BBR Araucanas to keep the color going, or any bird with similar or identical color to my Marango. He's duckwing but also carries Columbian, and produces offspring very similar to her due to such.

 

 

Ah man that is horrible. I have not experienced anything like that. Just chicks gone missing which still sucks.

Just curious if anyone has any LF eggs for sale? I'd love BBR type but even some nice solid color or barred/cuckoo eggs would be amazing. I think I saw cmsdvm's bantam chicks at the auction today and I would have bid on them if they were LF. There are some nice black and white araucana bantams at the show here this weekend, I saw a white hen and some AOV birds as well, makes me miss them so much.

I have found that if you don't separate them and other hens can come in, this makes for such things happening. It could have been one of the other hens that was laying an egg that pecked the chick. It could have been trampled on by several hens being allowed in the same nest. If you can separate them, even in a dog crate, then let them out daily to eat, drink and poo, they'll be much more successful. Make sure you close the crate while they are out so other hens can't go in and lay eggs. A staggered hatch isn't good either.

Let her try again, but separate and make sure all the eggs were started the same day.

Those were my chicks in the sale.  I put in a blue and 2 red/bbr bantams with decent bilateral tufts.  They went for $15 and $10- hard to believe but prices were low low low on everything.  The economy in this area has affected everybody.  I talked to the people with the AOV LF in the open show.  They were really nice.  Their birds were from Lanae.  I'm also selling a starter trio of tufted bantams today to a gentleman who says he's always wanted some.  Perhaps our ranks are growing!!  The Araucana National will be in Salem, OR the third weekend of October.  Put it on your calendar!!  A Northwest National is not to be missed!  It will also be a double show- 2 bites at the apple for one time the bathing.  That will be nice.  Rob's bantam black araucana hen was Ch. AOCCL in the youth show, but my Polish beat the araucanas in the Open show for Res. Ch. AOCCL.

Hello!, 

I have JUST discovered a woman who raises the TRUE Aracauna, I spoke with her my self, and she is very in the know about that particular breed.

Here is her website....   www.Cashesblueeggs.com    She lives in Willits Ca.

She raises them, and WOW! $50.00 a chick! They are pullets.

This is a breed I have been looking for, but I surely do not need a 50 dollar chick at this momsnt in tme... Lol I will just have to go with the other chicks that she has that are 1/2 breeds and they are rumpless & tuffted, but not pure, they are 5 bucks each, and straight run as well.

I LOVE blue eggs! and wanted to just have blue eggs, however they don't sell them in the feed store as they do all other breeds of chickens (Here in Fort Bragg Ca., )  they sell the Americana, or the easter eggers, but no TRUE Aracaunas.

OOPS! got the wrong spelling on that website.... Here it is the right way.   www.Cashsblueeggs.com   Tell er Lisa sent ya from Fort Bragg.

 

 

Yep, she posts in this thread often

 

But don't forget - Feedstores actually don't sell Ameraucanas, it's just a false label, as Ameraucanas are also a true purebred breed just like Araucanas are, and are not to be confused with Easter Eggers, nor found at feedstores like Easter Eggers.