Araucana thread anyone? - Page 573

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Originally Posted by Stacykins 

 

Hopefully you are accurate, because a lot of pullets would definitely make for a great starter flock!

Stacy,

I saw somewhere on the net an article written by an old guy about how he sexes them.  He said that the roo chicks will go around with the heads up high ( just like an adult roo) and the hens will be mostly in a down position (I suppose like a hen setting on eggs).  He also said that the pullets will get feathers all over their bodies faster.  I have found that to be true on the mutts that I hatched this spring.

In total I got 5 chicks, all rumpless and only one has 1 tuft. 4 look like they're white/splash and one is really light striped. 

 So a question- if I breed the chick with 1 tuft to a smooth faced bird, what will I get? Will it just throw single tufts or do I have a chance at getting 2 large tufts from it?

I know the popular consensus was that this was a splash, but is doesn't look like any of my other splashes, and its feathering in multi colored. could it be wheaten?

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Originally Posted by syble 

What color am i looking at with this guy, I mistaked him as a buff when i grabbed everyone out of the incubator to move them to the brooder. definitely an araucana thought, rumpless to boot!

 

feathering in colored though

 

Heres an updated photo, sorry lighting wasn't co-operating lol. I'm surprised it has yellow legs as it came from 2 willow legged parents? How does the leg color work again?

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Originally Posted by flyingmonkeypoop 

In total I got 5 chicks, all rumpless and only one has 1 tuft. 4 look like they're white/splash and one is really light striped. 

 So a question- if I breed the chick with 1 tuft to a smooth faced bird, what will I get? Will it just throw single tufts or do I have a chance at getting 2 large tufts from it?

The single tufted bird will throw plenty of double tufted chicks and yes you have a chance at getting two large tufts from it.  There is a thought that the tufting gene expresses with two tufts but it is tuft modifying genes that give you 1 tuft or 1 large and 1 small or two very small tufts.  So the answer to your question really is it depends on what tuft modifying genes the hens you will breed it to carry.

I have a rooster ( my avatar bird ) who has very very tiny tufts.  I know he is tufted because he was born with huge tufts, when he molted they did not come back.  The hens I am breeding him too that I can tell do not carry any tuft modifying genes because I am gettin all double tufted chicks and their tufts are really nice and full. 

So you should keep track of the kinds of tufts you get with each hen and you will soon figure out who is carrying modifiers and who isn't.

Lanae

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Originally Posted by syble 

 

Heres an updated photo, sorry lighting wasn't co-operating lol. I'm surprised it has yellow legs as it came from 2 willow legged parents? How does the leg color work again?

Its legs could darken up later so don't worry too much about that.  The color looks like some type of wheaten.  Also I think its a pullet.

Lanae

nice, it came from the blue brested red roo i hatched from you,(and the pullet from that hatch too) I think you called it your ginger red pen? So i guess they carry wheaten? i have one similar to this, nearly all bright yellow, but a dot on his head and small stripe on his back.

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Originally Posted by syble 

nice, it came from the blue brested red roo i hatched from you,(and the pullet from that hatch too) I think you called it your ginger red pen? So i guess they carry wheaten? i have one similar to this, nearly all bright yellow, but a dot on his head and small stripe on his back.

How exciting. I can't wait to see adult pics.  The roo from that pen died and the hens were wheaten so I moved them to a pen with a wheatenXwild type roo.

Lanae

Found this link to a very interesting article on egg colour on another forum.  http://webs.uvigo.es/avelando/pdfs_archivos/moralesetal2011BESa.pdf

Looking for some Araucana eggs to put in my incubator.   Anyone got some they would like to sell?