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I have been growing out some glw chicks with plans to breed. I have 4 roosters that are about 4 months old, and have been trying to work out which to keep for breeding. I have come to the conclusion they are all poor quality. 2 have nice gold lacing on the breast, but i read that you should...

Thank you! So I can expect both blue laced and standard black lacing in both sexes, with the base colour gold being pullets and the silver cockerals. Thank you!

Just wondering if someone could tell me what the possible outcomes for this cross would be? Thank you.

Yes that all makes perfect sense. Thank you so much. As you say, the tricky part will be ID-ing the individual hens eggs. Will have a think about that. In the mean time, probably safer not to keep any of the black chick's as breeders without doing test matings , and to keep an eye out for a...

I wasnt sure where the best place to ask this was, I'm not after the breed or sex, I'm asking about colour. I have Araucanas. I have a dominant white and a recessive white hen, 2 blues, a splash and a black hen in with a black roo. I was expecting blue and black chick's, with a few dominant...

Another possibility with the tatty feathers is lavender araucanas can have issues with feather quality. I had one in particular țhat had ratty thin feathers right from the start, and they never improved. He turned out to be a rooster and had to be culled unfortunately,as i couldn't even give...

Thanks, that is excellent advice! So the chick in the first post is definitely blue, however I still appear to have 4 lavender chicks. Have attached a pic of one, they are only just getting their primaries, but I can tell already, they have fret marks too. My question is, is it possible for...

Thanks redsoxs, that was very helpful. Apparently the break in his beak will mend and grow out, which is all I needed to know. Thanks!

Sigh, I really hope the roo isn't split for lav, didn't want that at all. Should prob get rid of the recessive white too, if she is lavender underneath, as it's going to muck up my blues. I had expected blue and black chick's out of this pen, with a few dominant whites. The chicks colours are...

Thanks for the reply Kev. Of course, my apologies, if the black roo was not caring the lavender gene, then 100% black split for lavender offspring. If he IS carrying the gene (very possible, I hatched him from bought eggs from a mixed colour pen) then offspring would be 50% lavender and 50%...

A chick hatched out last night while I was asleep, and when I took him out of the incubator I realised that while lumbering around he had stuck his beak up through the fan grill and the fan has cracked one side of his beak. It looks very painful poor thing. Will it mend like normal broken bone...

Ok, now that the chick has properly fluffed up, it looks a little lighter, so it appears it is a lavender chick after all...

I have a batch of araucana chick's Hatching out. For the most part they are blue, black and splash to solid black roo, so the outcomes are quite simple. But I also have one recessive white hen. The first of her eggs just hatched out and revealed a smoky not quite black chicken. Looks like a...

I know this is an older thread, but thought I would post a pic of a roo I hatched out of shipped eggs. Pure Australian araucana. He's quite striking, shame about the random black tail feathers tho.

Thanks for your reply Gita. I know about the legal genes for the ear tufts,but araucanas in Australia do not have ear tufts so it's not an issue for us here. There are no other roosters with the hens so no chance of crossbreeding. Aust araucanas do have a crest, and I have recently been able to...