Araucana thread anyone? - Page 570

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Originally Posted by Stacykins 

Fluffy picspam time!

 

 

 

 

The cleanfaced chick

 

 

My new avatar

 

Chick was Zzzzzz the entire time. There is a peduncle in all that fluff, haha.

 

Beautiful!

That is so amazing Stacy.  Definately you are going to want to do more hatching from the same bunch of chickens.

Lanae

so i was at our local feed store on saturday picking up supplies and saw this hen in with a large group of sex links. it just seemed odd to me that there was one araucana hen so i brought her home. im starting to think shes not a lady at all. i havent heard much noise out of it but occasionally looking at me with its beak open as if to say something that never comes out. but my wife said she was crowing quite a bit while i was out and that we have got us a rooster. can anyone give me some opinions?

Yep, you got yourself a rooster.

Yup, you have something to crow about! It's a boy!

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Originally Posted by Stacykins 

Holy tufts! So I just finished a small hatch of 11 eggs, from my own girls before 3 out of 4 went broody. Eight managed to hatch (since my small flock is tufted x tufted this makes sense that there were some dead in shells), and SEVEN of those eight are tufted!

 

These are going to be a foundation flock for a woman in lower Michigan. She's been trying and trying to hatch shipped eggs with no luck. So, I offered her all the Araucana chicks from this hatch and the one due next week (10 eggs). I definitely won't renege on that offer, but wow, what amazing hatch!

Great Hatch!  How are the broodies doing?  Still breaking the pips?

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Originally Posted by Brethren49619 

Great Hatch!  How are the broodies doing?  Still breaking the pips?

They busted 4 out of 5 of the eggs I gave them. Olive egger eggs, rather than Araucana (those were all in my incubator), but still rather irritating. So I have one fluffy olive egger chick under a broody now.

Show Champion at the Mother Earth Fair APA show Saturday.  This is "Stevie", Rob's bantam black.  She is blessed with gorgeous tufts and was in perfect condition, for once.  Reserve of Show was a Jersey Giant.

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Originally Posted by cmsdvm 

Show Champion at the Mother Earth Fair APA show Saturday.  This is "Stevie", Rob's bantam black.  She is blessed with gorgeous tufts and was in perfect condition, for once.  Reserve of Show was a Jersey Giant.

Beautiful and congratulations.

Lanae

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Originally Posted by cmsdvm 

Show Champion at the Mother Earth Fair APA show Saturday.  This is "Stevie", Rob's bantam black.  She is blessed with gorgeous tufts and was in perfect condition, for once.  Reserve of Show was a Jersey Giant.

Big congrats! She is a marvelous girl, no wonder she won show champion!